Climate averages 1991–2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria weather
in May.
A mild, very dry month: the 7th warmest and the 4th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: daytime highs average 20.7°C and nights cool to about 16.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 6.5 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes May a very dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 32 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Telde (12 km away). In May its highs average 21.3°C, 0.5°C warmer than Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with 6.5 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ranks 66th of 93 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 93 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 93 cities is 21.8°C; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 6.5 mm to under 1 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
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 22 | 4.6 | 10.611 h |
| February | 18.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 25 | 4.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 19.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.6°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 12 | 3.4 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 20.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 6.5 | 1.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 22.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 23.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| August | 24.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.3°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 9.8 | 1.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 24 | 4.9 | 11.512 h |
| November | 21.2°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 22 | 5.3 | 10.811 h |
| December | 19.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 30 | 5.6 | 10.410 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
- Telde in MaySpain · 12 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 16.3°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Santa Lucía in MaySpain · 24 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 14.5°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife in MaySpain · 92 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 18.3°C · 5.6 mm rain
- Arona in MaySpain · 124 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 14.4°C · 10 mm rain
- Laayoune in MayWestern Sahara · 244 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 16.1°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Tan-Tan in MayMorocco · 424 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 2.0 mm rain
- Dakhla in MayWestern Sahara · 494 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.9°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Funchal in MayPortugal · 528 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 15.8°C · 28 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is explained once on the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Telde and Santa Lucía lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.