Climate averages 1991–2020
Provo weather
in May.
A mild, moderately 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 mild month in Provo: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 8.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Orem (8 km away). In May its highs average 19.3°C, about as warm as Provo, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Provo ranks joint 418th of 498 for the warmest May highs and joint 136th of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; Provo is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 6.9°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 43 mm to 18 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Provo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.3°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 55 | 9.6 | 9.710 h |
| February | 3.5°C-5.9°C | -5.9°C | 45 | 8.6 | 10.611 h |
| March | 8.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 47 | 9.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.7°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 53 | 10.2 | 13.213 h |
| May, selected | 19.5°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 43 | 8.1 | 14.414 h |
| June | 26.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 18 | 3.7 | 15.015 h |
| July | 31.5°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 8.1 | 1.6 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.2°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 8.0 | 2.1 | 13.814 h |
| September | 24.2°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 28 | 4.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 16.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 39 | 6.5 | 11.211 h |
| November | 7.8°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 41 | 7.7 | 10.010 h |
| December | 1.5°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 49 | 8.8 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Orem in MayUnited States · 8 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 7.3°C · 43 mm rain
- West Jordan in MayUnited States · 48 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 48 mm rain
- West Valley City in MayUnited States · 59 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 7.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Salt Lake City in MayUnited States · 62 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 7.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Layton in MayUnited States · 96 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 7.2°C · 56 mm rain
- Ogden in MayUnited States · 113 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 59 mm rain
- Saint George in MayUnited States · 386 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 15.7°C · 8.5 mm rain
- Boise in MayUnited States · 531 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 8.5°C · 31 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 Provo) is explained once on the Provo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Orem lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.