Climate averages 1991–2020

Venlo 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 18.2°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 9.4°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 61 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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May is a mild month in Venlo: daytime highs average 18.2°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 61 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 34 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Viersen (20 km away). In May its highs average 18.1°C, about as warm as Venlo, with 62 mm of rain.

Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Venlo ranks 1st of 44 for the warmest May highs and joint 21st of 44 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 44 cities is 16.9°C; Venlo is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 21.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 70 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Venlo climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Venlo, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.5°C0.9°C0.9°C6612.58.48 h
February 6.7°C1.0°C1.0°C5911.59.910 h
March 10.3°C2.8°C2.8°C5812.111.812 h
April 14.5°C5.4°C5.4°C4810.713.814 h
May, selected 18.2°C9.4°C9.4°C6111.515.616 h
June 21.0°C12.5°C12.5°C7012.016.517 h
July 23.1°C14.8°C14.8°C7812.616.116 h
August 22.8°C14.5°C14.5°C7711.914.615 h
September 19.2°C11.7°C11.7°C6410.712.713 h
October 14.5°C8.5°C8.5°C6511.410.711 h
November 9.5°C4.7°C4.7°C6412.48.99 h
December 6.1°C1.9°C1.9°C7413.58.08 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 Venlo

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 Venlo) is explained once on the Venlo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.