Climate averages 1991–2020

Lelystad 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.

Average high 16.6°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 9.5°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 67 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a mild month in Lelystad: daytime highs average 16.6°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 43 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Almere Stad (23 km away). In May its highs average 17.0°C, about as warm as Lelystad, with 63 mm of rain.

Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Lelystad ranks joint 29th of 44 for the warmest May highs and 44th of 44 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 44 cities is 16.9°C; Lelystad is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 67 mm to 73 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Lelystad climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lelystad, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	5.5°C1.6°C	1.6°C	71	13.1	8.38 h
February	6.2°C1.5°C	1.5°C	58	11.4	9.810 h
March	9.1°C3.2°C	3.2°C	58	11.7	11.812 h
April	13.1°C5.8°C	5.8°C	52	10.7	13.914 h
May, selected	16.6°C9.5°C	9.5°C	67	11.5	15.716 h
June	19.2°C12.4°C	12.4°C	73	12.7	16.717 h
July	21.3°C14.7°C	14.7°C	89	14.5	16.316 h
August	21.2°C14.8°C	14.8°C	90	13.9	14.715 h
September	18.1°C12.3°C	12.3°C	76	12.3	12.713 h
October	13.9°C8.9°C	8.9°C	76	13.2	10.711 h
November	9.3°C5.3°C	5.3°C	68	13.8	8.89 h
December	6.1°C2.5°C	2.5°C	78	13.9	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

Distance from Lelystad

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lelystad) is explained once on the Lelystad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.