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Places with the best weather in Europe in May: ranked by comfort score

Málaga tops the list at 98 /100 in May. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in May: Málaga (98 /100) , Catania (97 /100) , Alicante (97 /100) . Between first and 50th place the comfort differs by 7.6 /100.

# Destination Country Comfort Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Málaga Spain 98 /100 22 °C 15 °C 25 mm 4 397 h 18 °C
2 Catania Italy 97 /100 24 °C 15 °C 28 mm 4 390 h 18 °C
3 Alicante Spain 97 /100 23 °C 15 °C 35 mm 6 401 h 18 °C
4 Elche Spain 96 /100 24 °C 14 °C 23 mm 4 400 h 18 °C
5 Palma Spain 96 /100 23 °C 16 °C 31 mm 5 393 h 18 °C
6 Castelló de la Plana Spain 96 /100 22 °C 14 °C 31 mm 5 391 h 18 °C
7 Marbella Spain 96 /100 21 °C 15 °C 32 mm 5 395 h 17 °C
8 Valencia Spain 96 /100 24 °C 14 °C 33 mm 5 395 h 18 °C
9 Athens Greece 96 /100 25 °C 15 °C 23 mm 5 385 h 19 °C
10 Astrakhan Russia 95 /100 24 °C 13 °C 26 mm 5 350 h –
11 Palermo Italy 95 /100 23 °C 15 °C 36 mm 6 398 h 19 °C
12 Madrid Spain 95 /100 22 °C 10 °C 38 mm 7 392 h –
13 Ciudad Lineal Spain 95 /100 22 °C 10.0 °C 38 mm 7 392 h –
14 Cartagena Spain 95 /100 22 °C 16 °C 20 mm 3 404 h 18 °C
15 Taranto Italy 94 /100 22 °C 14 °C 31 mm 6 393 h 18 °C
16 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 94 /100 25 °C 14 °C 30 mm 5 395 h 18 °C
17 Albacete Spain 94 /100 23 °C 10 °C 38 mm 6 385 h –
18 Badajoz Spain 94 /100 25 °C 13 °C 38 mm 7 375 h –
19 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 93 /100 21 °C 17 °C 9 mm 2 393 h 20 °C
20 Volgograd Russia 93 /100 22 °C 11 °C 41 mm 7 353 h –
21 Bari Italy 93 /100 22 °C 15 °C 40 mm 7 390 h 18 °C
22 Granada Spain 93 /100 23 °C 11 °C 50 mm 8 396 h –
23 Gibraltar Gibraltar 93 /100 22 °C 15 °C 31 mm 5 394 h 17 °C
24 Murcia Spain 93 /100 26 °C 13 °C 24 mm 4 401 h –
25 Alcalá de Henares Spain 93 /100 22 °C 10 °C 49 mm 8 386 h –
26 Almería Spain 92 /100 25 °C 16 °C 12 mm 2 409 h 18 °C
27 Sevilla Spain 92 /100 26 °C 15 °C 34 mm 5 382 h –
28 Pátra Greece 92 /100 23 °C 14 °C 53 mm 8 376 h 19 °C
29 Volgodonsk Russia 92 /100 22 °C 12 °C 49 mm 8 354 h –
30 Tiraspol Moldova 92 /100 22 °C 11 °C 46 mm 9 363 h –
31 Zaragoza Spain 91 /100 25 °C 12 °C 34 mm 6 388 h –
32 Marseille France 91 /100 21 °C 13 °C 52 mm 6 388 h 16 °C
33 Reggio Calabria Italy 91 /100 23 °C 14 °C 54 mm 8 392 h 18 °C
34 Toulon France 91 /100 21 °C 14 °C 55 mm 7 386 h 17 °C
35 Limassol Cyprus 91 /100 26 °C 17 °C 13 mm 3 400 h 20 °C
36 Córdoba Spain 91 /100 26 °C 14 °C 38 mm 6 386 h –
37 Montpellier France 91 /100 21 °C 12 °C 59 mm 7 380 h 16 °C
38 Badalona Spain 91 /100 21 °C 13 °C 46 mm 7 384 h 17 °C
39 Naples Italy 91 /100 22 °C 14 °C 63 mm 8 386 h 19 °C
40 Rome Italy 91 /100 22 °C 12 °C 58 mm 8 385 h –
41 Skopje North Macedonia 91 /100 23 °C 12 °C 50 mm 10 348 h –
42 Zaporizhzhya Ukraine 91 /100 21 °C 12 °C 44 mm 9 371 h –
43 Barcelona Spain 91 /100 21 °C 13 °C 46 mm 7 384 h 17 °C
44 Engels Russia 91 /100 21 °C 9.8 °C 38 mm 7 368 h –
45 Parma Italy 91 /100 23 °C 12 °C 85 mm 9 369 h –
46 Bologna Italy 91 /100 23 °C 12 °C 78 mm 10 366 h –
47 Szeged Hungary 91 /100 22 °C 12 °C 58 mm 10 357 h –
48 Galaţi Romania 91 /100 23 °C 12 °C 56 mm 10 365 h –
49 Messina Italy 90 /100 22 °C 15 °C 47 mm 8 392 h 19 °C
50 Thessaloníki Greece 90 /100 24 °C 15 °C 66 mm 9 371 h 19 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

April: top 5

  1. Limassol 98 /100
  2. Nicosia 97 /100
  3. Murcia 96 /100
  4. Elche 95 /100
  5. Sevilla 95 /100

Full ranking for April

June: top 5

  1. Yakutsk 96 /100
  2. San Marino 95 /100
  3. Ulan-Ude 93 /100
  4. La Laguna 93 /100
  5. Braga 92 /100

Full ranking for June

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 comfort score for sightseeing weather (formula on the methodology page), in May, highest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering and the score is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.