Munich in May
In May, Munich has 107.0 mm (4.21 in) of rain, a daily high of 19.4 °C (66.9 °F) and a daily low of 9.3 °C (48.7 °F), as 1991-2020 means; figures in brackets are converted.
Last updated : what the month is like; shorter source notes.
Best time to visit Munich: May meets our rule. Expect 11.9 rain days and days that grow by 1 h 14 min.
What May is like in Munich
- Maypoles stand in many Munich districts. Around May Day, almost every year, people gather under them for a party or a dance into May. Source: muenchen.de (Landeshauptstadt München), checked .
- Stalls piled with porcelain, stoneware and enamel fill Mariahilfplatz during the May Dult. Next to them, dealers sell old jewellery, pictures and toys. Source: muenchen.de (Landeshauptstadt München), checked .
- Free outdoor exercise classes meet on the exercise lawn by the lake in the Ostpark from May to September. The city has run its Fit im Park classes for three decades. Source: muenchen.de (Referat für Bildung und Sport, Fit im Park 2026), checked .
Key figures
Weather in May, 1991-2020 means
- Daily high
- 19.4 °C (66.9 °F)
- Daily low
- 9.3 °C (48.7 °F)
- Rain
- 107.0 mm (4.21 in) in the month
- Sunshine
- 213.0 h in the month
Climate normals 1991-2020, computed by DWD and submitted to the World Meteorological Organization. Checked .
Station: München-Stadt, 3.7 km from the city centre point.
Daylight on 15 May 2026
- Sunrise
- 05:35 local time
- Sunset
- 20:46 local time
- Day length
- 15 h 12 min
Day length 1-31 May: 14 h 32 min to 15 h 46 min, +1 h 14 min.
Source: NOAA Solar Calculator equations, checked .
Month by month
Each month: daily high in °C, then rain in mm, 1991-2020 means.
WMO climate normals 1991-2020, as above, checked .
This month against the year
| Measure | May | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Daily high | 19.4 °C | 5th warmest |
| Daily low | 9.3 °C | 5th warmest |
| Rain | 107.0 mm | 4th wettest |
| Sunshine | 213.0 hours | 4th sunniest |
| Day length | 15 h 12 min | 3rd longest |
Equal values share a rank. How we rank months
Sunshine share: 45% of the 471.4 hours from sunrise to sunset in May. How we compute sunshine share
Munich in May, on average: 11.9 rain days (1 mm or more), 0.0 frost days (low below 0 °C), 0.4 hot days (high 30 °C or more).
WMO climate normals 1991-2020, as above, checked .
Day length: NOAA solar equations, checked .
Public holidays this month
| Date | Holiday |
|---|---|
| Friday | Labor Day |
| Thursday | Ascension Day |
| Monday | Pentecost Monday |
| Date | Holiday |
|---|---|
| Saturday | Labor Day |
| Thursday | Ascension Day |
| Monday | Pentecost Monday |
| Thursday | Corpus Christi |
Typed from the official list and re-checked, .
English names are from the holidays library where the official list gives none. How we check holidays
Source: Official public holiday list (stmi.bayern.de), checked ; holidays Python library, checked . Library: holidays 0.105.
Same month in 20 cities
Munich is warmer than 2 of our 20 cities in May by mean daily high. How we rank cities
Closest high and low in May: Berlin (0.1 °C apart), Prague (0.6), London (0.7).
| City | Gap from Munich, °C | High, °C | Low, °C | Rain, mm | Sunshine, hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munich (this page) | — | 19.4 | 9.3 | 107.0 | 213.0 |
| Berlin (closest) | 0.1 | 19.6 | 9.3 | 52.3 | 224.3 |
| Prague (closest) | 0.6 | 20.1 | 8.9 | 67.0 | 221.5 |
| London (closest) | 0.7 | 18.4 | 9.7 | 44.7 | no data |
| Buenos Aires | 0.9 | 19.4 | 11.1 | 93.5 | 157.4 |
| Amsterdam | 1.2 | 17.8 | 8.6 | 53.9 | 230.7 |
| Paris | 1.3 | 20.2 | 11.1 | 69.0 | 201.0 |
| Vienna | 1.4 | 20.7 | 10.7 | 78.9 | 248.3 |
| Chicago | 1.5 | 21.4 | 10.3 | 114.0 | no data |
| New York | 3.0 | 21.9 | 12.8 | 100.6 | no data |
| Madrid | 3.4 | 23.5 | 11.9 | 48.3 | no data |
| Rome | 3.7 | 23.4 | 12.6 | no data | no data |
| Barcelona | 4.1 | 22.2 | 14.7 | 41.9 | 240.7 |
| Los Angeles | 4.5 | 23.2 | 14.5 | 8.1 | no data |
| Tokyo | 4.8 | 23.6 | 14.6 | 139.7 | 179.6 |
| Hiroshima | 5.4 | 24.4 | 15.1 | 169.8 | 210.8 |
| Osaka | 6.1 | 24.9 | 16.0 | 136.5 | 203.7 |
| Seville | 6.9 | 27.8 | 14.7 | 33.9 | 324.9 |
| Hong Kong | 12.3 | 28.8 | 24.5 | 290.6 | 138.8 |
| Singapore | 14.7 | 32.3 | 25.7 | 164.3 | no data |
Sources (1991-2020): WMO climate normals and NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, checked , ; Hong Kong: our 1991-2020 mean of the Hong Kong Observatory daily climate series on DATA.GOV.HK; Singapore: our 1991-2020 mean of the National Environment Agency monthly climate series on data.gov.sg; both checked . Each city's page names its station. All sources in full on Methodology.
Hong Kong figures: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Hong Kong Observatory own the intellectual property rights in the data; attribution to them and DATA.GOV.HK. Licence: Terms and Conditions of Use of DATA.GOV.HK, version 1.2.
Singapore figures: Contains information from the National Environment Agency on data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence). The Agency does not endorse our means.
Sources
- WMO Member Nations (each national weather service's own submission); archived by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Attribution: WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808). Station files named in each record. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed on the check date shown. Licence: No licence stated. Published by NOAA NCEI for WMO; citation requested. Checked .
- NOAA Solar Calculator equations, computed locally, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (method); City by Month (computation). Attribution: Computed with the NOAA Solar Calculator method (no NOAA endorsement implied). Licence: Method, not data. Checked .
- holidays Python library, run locally. Attribution: holidays library, Vacanza team. Licence: MIT. Checked .
Official sources
Cite this page: City by Month. "Munich in May: weather, daylight, holidays". https://citybymonth.com/cities/germany/munich/may/. Last updated 5 November 2026.