Climate averages 1991–2020
Providence weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Providence: daytime highs average 19.4°C and nights cool to about 10.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 79 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pawtucket (7 km away). In May its highs average 19.7°C, about as warm as Providence, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Providence ranks joint 427th of 498 for the warmest May highs and joint 214th of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; Providence is 4.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.1°C to 24.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 79 mm to 89 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
Providence climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.7°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 91 | 10.0 | 9.510 h |
| February | 3.9°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 79 | 8.7 | 10.611 h |
| March | 7.8°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 111 | 10.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 96 | 10.8 | 13.313 h |
| May, selected | 19.4°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 79 | 10.8 | 14.515 h |
| June | 24.6°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 10.0 | 15.215 h |
| July | 28.0°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 82 | 10.6 | 14.915 h |
| August | 27.0°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 98 | 10.3 | 13.914 h |
| September | 22.9°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 91 | 8.3 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 103 | 9.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 10.7°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 90 | 8.8 | 9.910 h |
| December | 5.5°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 109 | 10.4 | 9.29 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
- Pawtucket in MayUnited States · 7 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 10.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Warwick in MayUnited States · 14 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 10.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Fall River in MayUnited States · 25 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 10.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Brockton in MayUnited States · 44 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.7°C · 77 mm rain
- New Bedford in MayUnited States · 45 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 10.2°C · 78 mm rain
- Worcester, United States in MayUnited States · 58 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 9.2°C · 82 mm rain
- Quincy in MayUnited States · 59 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Newton in MayUnited States · 59 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.6°C · 77 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 Providence) is explained once on the Providence year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Warwick lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.