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Rancho Palos Verdes in May

Warm and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Rancho Palos Verdes is warm: highs near 74°F, lows near 56°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 40 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Rancho Palos Verdes is warm: highs near 23°C, lows near 13°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 40 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
74°F23°Caverage
Low
56°F13°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 4% of days
Daylight
13h 54mon average

Is May a good time to visit Rancho Palos Verdes?

Yes. May is one of Rancho Palos Verdes's best months (April to July, or October to 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 74°F in May, against 68°F to 84°F through the year.Highs near 23°C in May, against 20°C to 29°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

4% of days in May, against 1% to 19% through the year.

Cloud cover

29% cover in May, against 11% to 44% through the year.

Daylight

13h 54m in May, against 9h 57m to 14h 21m 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. April72°22°low 52°low 11°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May74°23°low 56°low 13°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June78°26°low 59°low 15°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Rancho Palos Verdes sits, in May

America/Los Angeles
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:53 AMsets 7:46 PM
Above the sea
30 mlow-lying
Latitude
33.7°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Los Angeles36 km north

The land around Rancho Palos Verdes, 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 Rancho Palos Verdes

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 9 km north-east of Rancho Palos Verdes. 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.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.