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Bordeaux in May

Warm and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Bordeaux is warm: highs near 72°F, lows near 52°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 1 minute from the first week to the last.May in Bordeaux is warm: highs near 22°C, lows near 11°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 1 minute from the first week to the last.

High
72°F22°Caverage
Low
52°F11°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 43% of days
Daylight
14h 49mon average

Is May a good time to visit Bordeaux?

A good month, just outside Bordeaux's best months, which run in two parts: June, or September 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

Highs near 72°F in May, against 53°F to 84°F through the year.Highs near 22°C in May, against 12°C to 29°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

43% of days in May, against 27% to 43% through the year.

Cloud cover

54% cover in May, against 35% to 65% through the year.

Daylight

14h 49m in May, against 8h 51m to 15h 32m 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. April66°19°low 46°low 8°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. May72°22°low 52°low 11°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June79°26°low 58°low 14°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Bordeaux sits, in May

Europe/Paris
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:35 AMsets 9:22 PM
Above the sea
20 mlow-lying
Latitude
44.8°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Massignac142 km north-east

The land around Bordeaux, 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 France in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Bordeaux. 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.