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Elk in May

Mild and mostly dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Elk is mild: highs near 70°F, lows near 49°F. Rain falls on about one day a week, and the days lengthen by 49 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Elk is mild: highs near 21°C, lows near 9°C. Rain falls on about one day a week, and the days lengthen by 49 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
70°F21°Caverage
Low
49°F9°Caverage
Wet days
1a week · 16% of days
Daylight
14h 18mon average

Is May a good time to visit Elk?

A good month, just outside Elk'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 70°F in May, against 59°F to 80°F through the year.Highs near 21°C in May, against 15°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

16% of days in May, against 1% to 42% through the year.

Cloud cover

45% cover in May, against 13% to 66% through the year.

Daylight

14h 18m in May, against 9h 28m to 14h 52m 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. April65°18°low 46°low 8°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May70°21°low 49°low 9°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  3. June75°24°low 53°low 12°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Elk sits, in May

America/Los Angeles
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:02 AMsets 8:19 PM
Above the sea
25 mlow-lying
Latitude
39.1°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Fort Bragg36 km north

The land around Elk, 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 Elk

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 8 km north of Elk. Its own grid square is mostly sea and holds only a daily average, so the page reads the nearest square with a true high and low near the town's height. 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 (25 m) against the climate model's (105 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 (25 m) against the climate model's (105 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.