Climate averages 1991–2020
Croydon 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 Croydon: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 8.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Purley (5 km away). In May its highs average 16.1°C, about as warm as Croydon, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Croydon ranks joint 11th of 143 for the warmest May highs and joint 27th of 143 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 143 cities is 15.2°C; Croydon is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 56 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
Croydon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 53 | 10.7 | 8.48 h |
| February | 7.7°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 44 | 9.1 | 9.910 h |
| March | 10.2°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 41 | 10.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.1°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 49 | 10.9 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 16.3°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 52 | 9.8 | 15.616 h |
| June | 19.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 9.5 | 16.517 h |
| July | 21.3°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 56 | 10.2 | 16.116 h |
| August | 21.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 62 | 9.8 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 45 | 8.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.4°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 57 | 10.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 60 | 10.8 | 8.99 h |
| December | 7.5°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 57 | 11.1 | 8.08 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
- Purley in MayUnited Kingdom · 5 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 57 mm rain
- Sutton in MayUnited Kingdom · 8 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 8.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Fulham in MayUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 52 mm rain
- London in MayUnited Kingdom · 14 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 8.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Bexley in MayUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Archway in MayUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 8.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Barking in MayUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Ilford in MayUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.6°C · 52 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 Croydon) is explained once on the Croydon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barking, Ilford and Walthamstow lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.