Climate averages 1991–2020
Telde weather
in May.
A mild, very dry month: the 6th 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 Telde: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 16.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th 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 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (12 km away). In May its highs average 20.7°C, 0.5°C cooler than Telde, with 6.5 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Telde ranks 58th 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; Telde is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 22.9°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
Telde climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.1°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 22 | 4.6 | 10.611 h |
| February | 18.3°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 25 | 4.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 19.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.9°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 12 | 3.4 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 21.3°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 6.5 | 1.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 22.9°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 24.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| August | 25.3°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.8°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 9.8 | 1.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.6°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 24 | 4.9 | 11.512 h |
| November | 21.2°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 22 | 5.3 | 10.811 h |
| December | 19.3°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
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in MaySpain · 12 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 16.1°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Santa Lucía in MaySpain · 15 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 14.5°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife in MaySpain · 97 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 · 239 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 16.1°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Tan-Tan in MayMorocco · 426 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 2.0 mm rain
- Dakhla in MayWestern Sahara · 482 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.9°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Guelmim in MayMorocco · 535 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 14.2°C · 3.2 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 Telde) is explained once on the Telde year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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.