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Lizard in May

Warm and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Lizard is warm, around 78°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 15 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Lizard is warm, around 26°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 15 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
78°F26°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 38% of days
Daylight
11h 26mon average

Is May a good time to visit Lizard?

A good month, just outside Lizard's best months, which run from July to October.

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

Around 78°F in May, against 74°F to 82°F through the year.Around 26°C in May, against 23°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

38% of days in May, against 9% to 77% through the year.

Cloud cover

62% cover in May, against 58% to 80% through the year.

Daylight

11h 26m in May, against 11h 16m to 12h 59m 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. April80°27°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May78°26°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June76°24°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.

Where Lizard sits, in May

Australia/Brisbane
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:31 AMsets 5:58 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
14.7°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Finlayvale199 km south

The land around Lizard, 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

typical · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Lizard

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Lizard sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. 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.