Climate · Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv in May

Warm and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Tel Aviv is warm: highs near 83°F, lows near 63°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 37 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Tel Aviv is warm: highs near 28°C, lows near 17°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 37 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
83°F28°Caverage
Low
63°F17°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 4% of days
Daylight
13h 47mon average

Is May a good time to visit Tel Aviv?


A good month, just outside Tel Aviv's best months, which run in two parts: March to April, or November.

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 83°F in May, against 65°F to 92°F through the year.Highs near 28°C in May, against 18°C to 33°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

4% of days in May, against 0% to 35% through the year.

Cloud cover

22% cover in May, against 4% to 38% through the year.

Daylight

13h 47m in May, against 10h 05m to 14h 13m 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. April77°25°low 57°low 14°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May83°28°low 63°low 17°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June87°31°low 68°low 20°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Tel Aviv sits, in May

Asia/Jerusalem

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:44 AMsets 7:30 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
32.1°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Jerusalem54 km south-east

The land around Tel Aviv, 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 Israel in May

high · low · wet days

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