Climate averages 1991–2020
A Coruña weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in A Coruña: daytime highs average 17.8°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 40 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santiago de Compostela (56 km away). In May its highs average 17.8°C, about as warm as A Coruña, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, A Coruña ranks joint 86th of 93 for the warmest May highs and 82nd of 93 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 93 cities is 21.8°C; A Coruña is 4.0°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 53 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
A Coruña climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.3°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 141 | 14.5 | 9.49 h |
| February | 12.8°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 102 | 12.3 | 10.510 h |
| March | 14.6°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 103 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.6°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 110 | 14.2 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 17.8°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 83 | 12.7 | 14.715 h |
| June | 20.3°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 53 | 8.8 | 15.315 h |
| July | 22.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 33 | 6.6 | 15.115 h |
| August | 22.8°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 46 | 7.7 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 68 | 9.3 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 134 | 13.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.8°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 154 | 15.9 | 9.710 h |
| December | 13.1°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 140 | 14.4 | 9.09 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- Santiago de Compostela in MaySpain · 56 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Lugo in MaySpain · 79 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 8.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Pontevedra in MaySpain · 107 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 11.4°C · 114 mm rain
- Ourense in MaySpain · 123 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.1°C · 72 mm rain
- Vigo in MaySpain · 129 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 11.4°C · 118 mm rain
- Avilés in MaySpain · 200 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 11.4°C · 114 mm rain
- Braga in MayPortugal · 202 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 10.2°C · 121 mm rain
- Oviedo in MaySpain · 206 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.8°C · 124 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for A Coruña) is explained once on the A Coruña year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.