Climate · Sylt

Sylt in May

Cool and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Sylt is cool, around 51°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 35 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Sylt is cool, around 11°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 35 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
51°F11°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 38% of days
Daylight
16h 07mon average

Is May a good time to visit Sylt?


May sits outside Sylt's best months, which run from July to August. Expect cool days and rain on about three 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

Around 51°F in May, against 37°F to 64°F through the year.Around 11°C in May, against 3°C to 18°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

38% of days in May, against 32% to 60% through the year.

Cloud cover

53% cover in May, against 49% to 71% through the year.

Daylight

16h 07m in May, against 7h 17m to 17h 15m 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. April44°7°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May51°11°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June58°14°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Sylt sits, in May

Europe/Berlin

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:21 AMsets 9:25 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
54.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Hamburg187 km south-east

The land around Sylt, 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 Germany in May

typical · wet days

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