Climate averages 1991–2020
Lund weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Lund: daytime highs average 15.6°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 14 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Malmö (16 km away). In May its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Lund, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Lund ranks joint 6th of 21 for the warmest May highs and joint 14th of 21 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 21 cities is 14.6°C; Lund is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 18.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 53 mm to 76 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
Lund climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.3°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 53 | 11.8 | 7.78 h |
| February | 2.9°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 45 | 10.0 | 9.610 h |
| March | 5.9°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 44 | 10.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.0°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 42 | 9.5 | 14.114 h |
| May, selected | 15.6°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 53 | 10.9 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.7°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 76 | 12.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 21.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.7°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 80 | 13.1 | 15.115 h |
| September | 16.6°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 58 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.4°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 60 | 11.3 | 10.511 h |
| November | 6.6°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 50 | 11.0 | 8.48 h |
| December | 3.5°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 55 | 11.6 | 7.17 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
- Malmö in MaySweden · 16 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.6°C · 41 mm rain
- Copenhagen in MayDenmark · 39 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Helsingborg in MaySweden · 49 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Halmstad in MaySweden · 110 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Växjö in MaySweden · 164 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Odense in MayDenmark · 180 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Rostock in MayGermany · 192 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Århus in MayDenmark · 192 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.7°C · 55 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 Lund) is explained once on the Lund year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.