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Paris in May

Mild and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Paris is mild: highs near 68°F, lows near 49°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 12 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Paris is mild: highs near 20°C, lows near 9°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 12 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
68°F20°Caverage
Low
49°F9°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 43% of days
Daylight
15h 16mon average

Is May a good time to visit Paris?

A good month, just outside Paris'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 68°F in May, against 48°F to 79°F through the year.Highs near 20°C in May, against 9°C to 26°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

43% of days in May, against 29% to 43% through the year.

Cloud cover

57% cover in May, against 45% to 72% through the year.

Daylight

15h 16m in May, against 8h 19m to 16h 06m 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 42°low 6°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. May68°20°low 49°low 9°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June75°24°low 55°low 13°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Paris sits, in May

Europe/Paris
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:10 AMsets 9:24 PM
Above the sea
40 mlow-lying
Latitude
48.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Commes229 km west

The land around Paris, 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 Paris

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