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Vienna in May

Warm and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Vienna is warm: highs near 71°F, lows near 50°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 10 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Vienna is warm: highs near 22°C, lows near 10°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 10 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
71°F22°Caverage
Low
50°F10°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 41% of days
Daylight
15h 11mon average

Is May a good time to visit Vienna?

A good month, just outside Vienna's best months, which run from June to September.

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 71°F in May, against 41°F to 82°F through the year.Highs near 22°C in May, against 5°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

41% of days in May, against 30% to 41% through the year.

Cloud cover

54% cover in May, against 42% to 66% through the year.

Daylight

15h 11m in May, against 8h 24m to 16h 00m 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. April62°17°low 41°low 5°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May71°22°low 50°low 10°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June78°26°low 58°low 14°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Vienna sits, in May

Europe/Vienna
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:16 AMsets 8:25 PM
Above the sea
180 mlow-lying
Latitude
48.2°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut224 km west

The land around Vienna, 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 Austria in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Vienna. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. 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.