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Falls Creek in May

Cool and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Falls Creek is cool: highs near 50°F, lows near 35°F. Rain falls on about two days a week, and the days shorten by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Falls Creek is cool: highs near 10°C, lows near 2°C. Rain falls on about two days a week, and the days shorten by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
50°F10°Caverage
Low
35°F2°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 35% of days
Daylight
10h 11mon average

Is May a good time to visit Falls Creek?

May sits outside Falls Creek's best months, which run from January to February. Expect cool days and rain on about two days a week.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 50°F in May, against 42°F to 72°F through the year.Highs near 10°C in May, against 6°C to 22°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

35% of days in May, against 28% to 50% through the year.

Cloud cover

49% cover in May, against 33% to 60% through the year.

Daylight

10h 11m in May, against 9h 41m to 14h 39m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. April58°14°low 39°low 4°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May50°10°low 35°low 2°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. June44°7°low 31°low -1°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Falls Creek sits, in May

Australia/Melbourne
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
7:01 AMsets 5:13 PM
Above the sea
1,600 mhigh country
Latitude
36.9°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Melbourne230 km south-west

The land around Falls Creek, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Australia in May

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Falls Creek

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Falls Creek. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (1,600 m) against the climate model's (1,503 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (1,600 m) against the climate model's (1,503 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.