Climate averages 1991–2020
Amsterdam weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th 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 Amsterdam: daytime highs average 16.1°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 42 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Amstelveen (8 km away). In May its highs average 16.4°C, about as warm as Amsterdam, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Amsterdam ranks joint 35th of 44 for the warmest May highs and joint 27th of 44 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 44 cities is 16.9°C; Amsterdam is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 18.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 62 mm to 67 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
Amsterdam climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 63 | 12.4 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 53 | 10.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 54 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.7°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 50 | 11.1 | 13.914 h |
| May, selected | 16.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 62 | 11.4 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 67 | 11.7 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.8°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 82 | 13.4 | 16.316 h |
| August | 20.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 81 | 12.9 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 69 | 11.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 66 | 12.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.4°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 61 | 12.4 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.3°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 69 | 12.9 | 7.88 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
- Amstelveen in MayThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 9.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Zaandam in MayThe Netherlands · 8 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Zaanstad in MayThe Netherlands · 10 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 9.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Purmerend in MayThe Netherlands · 15 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in MayThe Netherlands · 16 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 9.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Haarlem in MayThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 9.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Almere Stad in MayThe Netherlands · 22 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Hilversum in MayThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 9.1°C · 63 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 Amsterdam) is explained once on the Amsterdam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.