Climate averages 1991–2020
Hilversum 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 Hilversum: daytime highs average 17.1°C and nights cool to about 9.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 41 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Utrecht (15 km away). In May its highs average 17.1°C, about as warm as Hilversum, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Hilversum ranks joint 21st of 44 for the warmest May highs and joint 36th of 44 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 44 cities is 16.9°C; Hilversum is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 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
Hilversum climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.6°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 64 | 12.7 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.5°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 54 | 10.8 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.6°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 55 | 11.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 51 | 11.3 | 13.914 h |
| May, selected | 17.1°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 63 | 11.8 | 15.716 h |
| June | 19.6°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 67 | 11.7 | 16.717 h |
| July | 21.7°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 82 | 14.1 | 16.316 h |
| August | 21.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 81 | 13.1 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 67 | 11.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 65 | 12.0 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 61 | 12.3 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.1°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 70 | 13.1 | 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
- Utrecht in MayThe Netherlands · 15 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 9.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Amersfoort in MayThe Netherlands · 16 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Almere Stad in MayThe Netherlands · 17 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Amstelveen in MayThe Netherlands · 23 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 9.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Amsterdam in MayThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Zaandam in MayThe Netherlands · 34 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Hoofddorp in MayThe Netherlands · 34 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 9.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Purmerend in MayThe Netherlands · 35 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 58 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 Hilversum) is explained once on the Hilversum year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Almere Stad lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.