Climate averages 1991–2020
Wolverhampton weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Wolverhampton: daytime highs average 15.1°C and nights cool to about 7.0°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 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 44 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Walsall (9 km away). In May its highs average 15.3°C, about as warm as Wolverhampton, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Wolverhampton ranks joint 82nd of 143 for the warmest May highs and joint 90th of 143 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 143 cities is 15.2°C; Wolverhampton is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 17.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 68 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
Wolverhampton climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 55 | 12.3 | 8.28 h |
| February | 7.0°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 47 | 10.3 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.3°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 50 | 10.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.0°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 56 | 11.9 | 13.914 h |
| May, selected | 15.1°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 61 | 11.5 | 15.716 h |
| June | 17.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 68 | 11.5 | 16.717 h |
| July | 19.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 65 | 11.8 | 16.316 h |
| August | 19.4°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 62 | 11.1 | 14.715 h |
| September | 16.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 57 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.0°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 67 | 11.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 65 | 11.9 | 8.89 h |
| December | 6.6°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 62 | 11.8 | 7.78 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
- Walsall in MayUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Dudley in MayUnited Kingdom · 10 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.0°C · 61 mm rain
- West Bromwich in MayUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Cannock in MayUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Birmingham in MayUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Sutton Coldfield in MayUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.2°C · 60 mm rain
- Telford in MayUnited Kingdom · 24 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 6.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Stafford in MayUnited Kingdom · 24 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.3°C · 63 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 Wolverhampton) is explained once on the Wolverhampton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Birmingham, Dudley and Walsall lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.