Climate · Road Town

Road Town in May

Warm and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Road Town is warm, around 79°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Road Town is warm, around 26°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
79°F26°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 56% of days
Daylight
13h 00mon average

Is May a good time to visit Road Town?


A good month, just outside Road Town's best months, which run from January to April.

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 79°F in May, against 77°F to 82°F through the year.Around 26°C in May, against 25°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

56% of days in May, against 37% to 71% through the year.

Cloud cover

60% cover in May, against 26% to 67% through the year.

Daylight

13h 00m in May, against 11h 02m to 13h 13m 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.

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  1. April77°25°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. May79°26°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. June81°27°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Road Town sits, in May

America/Tortola

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:45 AMsets 6:44 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
18.4°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
our one place here

The land around Road Town, 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. Road Town is our one place in British Virgin Islands so far. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Road Town 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.