Climate averages 1991–2020

Wyoming weather
in May.

A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 19.5°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 9.6°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 108 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Wyoming · average highYear overview

May is a mild month in Wyoming: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 9.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 37 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Grand Rapids (6 km away). In May its highs average 19.6°C, about as warm as Wyoming, with 108 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Wyoming ranks joint 418th of 498 for the warmest May highs and joint 395th of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; Wyoming is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 108 mm to 95 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Wyoming climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Wyoming, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -1.1°C-8.1°C-8.1°C6210.59.49 h
February 0.3°C-8.2°C-8.2°C508.110.511 h
March 6.2°C-3.3°C-3.3°C639.311.912 h
April 13.2°C3.0°C3.0°C10112.113.413 h
May, selected 19.5°C9.6°C9.6°C10811.914.615 h
June 24.7°C15.3°C15.3°C9511.315.315 h
July 26.7°C17.8°C17.8°C9610.815.015 h
August 25.8°C17.3°C17.3°C9210.513.914 h
September 22.1°C13.5°C13.5°C799.312.513 h
October 15.0°C7.4°C7.4°C8611.411.111 h
November 7.7°C1.3°C1.3°C6810.09.810 h
December 1.9°C-3.8°C-3.8°C6010.89.19 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

Distance from Wyoming

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Wyoming) is explained once on the Wyoming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Grand Rapids lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.