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Jasper Park in May

Cool and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Jasper Park is cool: highs near 56°F, lows near 33°F. Rain falls on about four days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 26 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Jasper Park is cool: highs near 13°C, lows near 1°C. Rain falls on about four days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 26 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
56°F13°Caverage
Low
33°F1°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 54% of days
Daylight
15h 48mon average

Is May a good time to visit Jasper Park?

May sits outside Jasper Park's best months, which run from July to August. Expect cool days and rain on about four 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 56°F in May, against 22°F to 74°F through the year.Highs near 13°C in May, against -6°C to 23°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

54% of days in May, against 43% to 66% through the year.

Cloud cover

65% cover in May, against 53% to 71% through the year.

Daylight

15h 48m in May, against 7h 40m to 16h 49m 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. April46°8°low 25°low -4°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May56°13°low 33°low 1°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. June66°19°low 40°low 4°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.

Where Jasper Park sits, in May

America/Edmonton
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:56 AMsets 9:41 PM
Above the sea
1,060 mupland
Latitude
52.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Lake Louise206 km south-east

The land around Jasper Park, 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 Canada in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Jasper Park. 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 (1,060 m) against the climate model's (1,614 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 (1,060 m) against the climate model's (1,614 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.