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Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in May

Cool and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is cool: highs near 58°F, lows near 37°F. Rain falls on about five days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 4 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is cool: highs near 14°C, lows near 3°C. Rain falls on about five days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 4 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
58°F14°Caverage
Low
37°F3°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 66% of days
Daylight
14h 56mon average

Is May a good time to visit Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?

May sits outside Saint-Gervais-les-Bains's best months, which run from July to August. Expect cool days and rain on about five 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 58°F in May, against 36°F to 73°F through the year.Highs near 14°C in May, against 2°C to 23°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

66% of days in May, against 43% to 67% through the year.

Cloud cover

64% cover in May, against 46% to 64% through the year.

Daylight

14h 56m in May, against 8h 43m to 15h 40m 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. April51°11°low 29°low -2°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May58°14°low 37°low 3°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. June68°20°low 46°low 8°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.

Where Saint-Gervais-les-Bains sits, in May

Europe/Paris
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:02 AMsets 8:56 PM
Above the sea
1,130 mupland
Latitude
45.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Talloires39 km west

The land around Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, 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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. 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 (1,130 m) against the climate model's (1,599 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 (1,130 m) against the climate model's (1,599 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.