Climate averages 1991–2020
Malmö weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Malmö: daytime highs average 15.5°C and nights cool to about 7.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 13 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lund (16 km away). In May its highs average 15.6°C, about as warm as Malmö, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Malmö ranks joint 9th of 21 for the warmest May highs and 3rd of 21 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 21 cities is 14.6°C; Malmö is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 18.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 57 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
Malmö climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.7°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 49 | 11.3 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.1°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 40 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 40 | 9.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.9°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 36 | 8.7 | 14.114 h |
| May, selected | 15.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 41 | 9.5 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 57 | 10.5 | 17.417 h |
| July | 21.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 58 | 10.8 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 66 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 53 | 9.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 54 | 10.9 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.0°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 48 | 11.1 | 8.48 h |
| December | 3.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 53 | 11.3 | 7.27 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
- Lund in MaySweden · 16 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.1°C · 53 mm rain
- Copenhagen in MayDenmark · 28 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Helsingborg in MaySweden · 53 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Halmstad in MaySweden · 119 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Odense in MayDenmark · 166 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Rostock in MayGermany · 177 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Växjö in MaySweden · 180 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Århus in MayDenmark · 184 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 Malmö) is explained once on the Malmö year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.