Climate averages 1991–2020
Fort Lauderdale weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Fort Lauderdale: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 105 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Davie (11 km away). In May its highs average 28.5°C, about as warm as Fort Lauderdale, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fort Lauderdale ranks joint 87th of 498 for the warmest May highs and joint 385th of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; Fort Lauderdale is 4.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 105 mm to 174 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
Fort Lauderdale climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 49 | 7.3 | 10.711 h |
| February | 23.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 40 | 6.6 | 11.311 h |
| March | 24.9°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 53 | 7.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.6°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 62 | 8.4 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 28.2°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 105 | 12.8 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 174 | 21.5 | 13.714 h |
| July | 30.1°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 133 | 21.9 | 13.614 h |
| August | 30.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 163 | 23.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.3°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 172 | 22.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.8°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 122 | 14.9 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.6°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 55 | 8.7 | 10.911 h |
| December | 24.0°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 41 | 8.0 | 10.511 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
- Davie in MayUnited States · 11 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 105 mm rain
- Pompano Beach in MayUnited States · 13 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 22.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Pembroke Pines in MayUnited States · 16 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.0°C · 105 mm rain
- Coral Springs in MayUnited States · 21 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.8°C · 113 mm rain
- Deerfield Beach in MayUnited States · 22 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.2°C · 99 mm rain
- Miami Gardens in MayUnited States · 22 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 23.2°C · 105 mm rain
- Boca Raton in MayUnited States · 27 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.2°C · 99 mm rain
- Hialeah in MayUnited States · 32 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.6°C · 92 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 Fort Lauderdale) is explained once on the Fort Lauderdale year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pembroke Pines, Miami Gardens and Davie lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.