Climate averages 1991–2020
Newark weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Newark: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 26 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Passaic (14 km away). In May its highs average 20.8°C, about as warm as Newark, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Newark ranks joint 327th of 498 for the warmest May highs and joint 293rd of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; Newark is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.0°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 104 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
Newark climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-4.7°C | -4.7°C | 85 | 9.2 | 9.610 h |
| February | 4.9°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 78 | 8.5 | 10.611 h |
| March | 9.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 107 | 10.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.9°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 94 | 10.8 | 13.313 h |
| May, selected | 21.3°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 90 | 11.7 | 14.414 h |
| June | 26.3°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 104 | 11.2 | 15.015 h |
| July | 29.2°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 106 | 11.0 | 14.815 h |
| August | 28.1°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 102 | 10.7 | 13.814 h |
| September | 24.2°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 102 | 9.4 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.7°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 99 | 8.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.5°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 80 | 8.2 | 10.010 h |
| December | 6.1°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 103 | 9.7 | 9.39 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
- Passaic in MayUnited States · 14 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 11.1°C · 90 mm rain
- New York City in MayUnited States · 14 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 11.0°C · 85 mm rain
- Manhattan in MayUnited States · 18 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 11.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Staten Island in MayUnited States · 19 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 11.7°C · 86 mm rain
- Paterson in MayUnited States · 20 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.1°C · 97 mm rain
- Brooklyn in MayUnited States · 21 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 11.3°C · 85 mm rain
- The Bronx in MayUnited States · 29 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 11.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Queens in MayUnited States · 29 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 11.5°C · 85 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 Newark) is explained once on the Newark year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Passaic lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.