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Places with the best weather in Europe in May

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

# Destination Country Comfort Avg high Rainfall
1 Málaga Spain 98 /100 22 °C 25 mm
2 Catania Italy 97 /100 24 °C 28 mm
3 Alicante Spain 97 /100 23 °C 35 mm
4 Elche Spain 96 /100 24 °C 23 mm
5 Palma Spain 96 /100 23 °C 31 mm
6 Castelló de la Plana Spain 96 /100 22 °C 31 mm
7 Marbella Spain 96 /100 21 °C 32 mm
8 Valencia Spain 96 /100 24 °C 33 mm
9 Athens Greece 96 /100 25 °C 23 mm
10 Astrakhan Russia 95 /100 24 °C 26 mm
11 Palermo Italy 95 /100 23 °C 36 mm
12 Madrid Spain 95 /100 22 °C 38 mm
13 Ciudad Lineal Spain 95 /100 22 °C 38 mm
14 Cartagena Spain 95 /100 22 °C 20 mm
15 Taranto Italy 94 /100 22 °C 31 mm
16 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 94 /100 25 °C 30 mm
17 Albacete Spain 94 /100 23 °C 38 mm
18 Badajoz Spain 94 /100 25 °C 38 mm
19 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 93 /100 21 °C 9 mm
20 Volgograd Russia 93 /100 22 °C 41 mm
21 Bari Italy 93 /100 22 °C 40 mm
22 Granada Spain 93 /100 23 °C 50 mm
23 Gibraltar Gibraltar 93 /100 22 °C 31 mm
24 Murcia Spain 93 /100 26 °C 24 mm
25 Alcalá de Henares Spain 93 /100 22 °C 49 mm
26 Almería Spain 92 /100 25 °C 12 mm
27 Sevilla Spain 92 /100 26 °C 34 mm
28 Pátra Greece 92 /100 23 °C 53 mm
29 Volgodonsk Russia 92 /100 22 °C 49 mm
30 Tiraspol Moldova 92 /100 22 °C 46 mm
31 Zaragoza Spain 91 /100 25 °C 34 mm
32 Marseille France 91 /100 21 °C 52 mm
33 Reggio Calabria Italy 91 /100 23 °C 54 mm
34 Toulon France 91 /100 21 °C 55 mm
35 Limassol Cyprus 91 /100 26 °C 13 mm
36 Córdoba Spain 91 /100 26 °C 38 mm
37 Montpellier France 91 /100 21 °C 59 mm
38 Badalona Spain 91 /100 21 °C 46 mm
39 Naples Italy 91 /100 22 °C 63 mm
40 Rome Italy 91 /100 22 °C 58 mm
41 Skopje North Macedonia 91 /100 23 °C 50 mm
42 Zaporizhzhya Ukraine 91 /100 21 °C 44 mm
43 Barcelona Spain 91 /100 21 °C 46 mm
44 Engels Russia 91 /100 21 °C 38 mm
45 Parma Italy 91 /100 23 °C 85 mm
46 Bologna Italy 91 /100 23 °C 78 mm
47 Szeged Hungary 91 /100 22 °C 58 mm
48 Galaţi Romania 91 /100 23 °C 56 mm
49 Messina Italy 90 /100 22 °C 47 mm
50 Thessaloníki Greece 90 /100 24 °C 66 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

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.

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