Climate averages 1991–2020
Doncaster weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Doncaster: daytime highs average 15.4°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 52 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rotherham (18 km away). In May its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Doncaster, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Doncaster ranks joint 62nd of 143 for the warmest May highs and joint 77th of 143 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 143 cities is 15.2°C; Doncaster is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 58 mm to 74 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
Doncaster climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.8°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 53 | 12.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.6°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 47 | 10.6 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.8°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 49 | 10.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 58 | 11.7 | 14.014 h |
| May, selected | 15.4°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 58 | 11.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 18.2°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 74 | 12.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 20.4°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 69 | 12.1 | 16.516 h |
| August | 20.1°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 73 | 11.9 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.5°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 58 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 61 | 12.1 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.9°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 60 | 12.1 | 7.68 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
- Rotherham in MayUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Barnsley in MayUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 6.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Sheffield in MayUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Wakefield in MayUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Scunthorpe in MayUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Chesterfield in MayUnited Kingdom · 36 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Leeds in MayUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Mansfield in MayUnited Kingdom · 44 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.9°C · 56 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 Doncaster) is explained once on the Doncaster year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Rotherham lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.