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Crested Butte in May

Cool and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Crested Butte is cool: highs near 54°F, lows near 29°F. Rain or snow falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 48 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Crested Butte is cool: highs near 12°C, lows near -2°C. Rain or snow falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 48 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
54°F12°Caverage
Low
29°F-2°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 38% of days
Daylight
14h 17mon average

Is May a good time to visit Crested Butte?

May sits outside Crested Butte's best months, which run from July to August. Expect cool days and rain or snow 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

Highs near 54°F in May, against 31°F to 76°F through the year.Highs near 12°C in May, against -1°C to 24°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

38% of days in May, against 25% to 49% through the year.

Cloud cover

50% cover in May, against 33% to 58% through the year.

Daylight

14h 17m in May, against 9h 29m to 14h 51m 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. April46°8°low 22°low -6°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. May54°12°low 29°low -2°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June68°20°low 37°low 3°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.

Where Crested Butte sits, in May

America/Denver
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:56 AMsets 8:12 PM
Above the sea
2,709 mhigh country
Latitude
38.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Aspen38 km north

The land around Crested Butte, 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 United States in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Crested Butte. 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 (2,709 m) against the climate model's (3,147 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 (2,709 m) against the climate model's (3,147 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.