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Places with the best weather in the world 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 the world.

Top three in May: Málaga (98 /100) , Gweru (98 /100) , Lubango (97 /100) . Between first and 50th place the comfort differs by 3.0 /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 Gweru Zimbabwe 98 /100 22 °C 11 °C 7 mm 1 320 h –
3 Lubango Angola 97 /100 24 °C 13 °C 7 mm 1 345 h –
4 Santiago del Estero Argentina 97 /100 22 °C 14 °C 23 mm 5 238 h –
5 Harare Zimbabwe 97 /100 22 °C 11 °C 6 mm 1 324 h –
6 Catania Italy 97 /100 24 °C 15 °C 28 mm 4 390 h 18 °C
7 Alicante Spain 97 /100 23 °C 15 °C 35 mm 6 401 h 18 °C
8 Chitungwiza Zimbabwe 97 /100 23 °C 10 °C 7 mm 1 324 h –
9 Ensenada Mexico 97 /100 22 °C 14 °C 7 mm 2 401 h 17 °C
10 Sumbawanga Tanzania 97 /100 23 °C 13 °C 26 mm 4 352 h –
11 Bulawayo Zimbabwe 96 /100 23 °C 11 °C 6 mm 1 320 h –
12 Polokwane South Africa 96 /100 22 °C 10 °C 11 mm 2 309 h –
13 Lusaka Zambia 96 /100 24 °C 14 °C 3 mm 1 339 h –
14 Irvine United States 96 /100 22 °C 14 °C 9 mm 2 394 h 17 °C
15 Lichinga Mozambique 96 /100 23 °C 12 °C 9 mm 2 325 h –
16 San Jose United States 96 /100 23 °C 11 °C 22 mm 3 399 h –
17 Elche Spain 96 /100 24 °C 14 °C 23 mm 4 400 h 18 °C
18 Palma Spain 96 /100 23 °C 16 °C 31 mm 5 393 h 18 °C
19 Tlemcen Algeria 96 /100 23 °C 11 °C 37 mm 5 387 h –
20 Santa Ana United States 96 /100 22 °C 14 °C 9 mm 2 394 h 17 °C
21 Quillacollo Bolivia 96 /100 22 °C 9.5 °C 11 mm 2 332 h –
22 Soshanguve South Africa 96 /100 22 °C 9.3 °C 16 mm 2 306 h –
23 Escondido United States 96 /100 22 °C 13 °C 16 mm 3 393 h 18 °C
24 Blantyre Malawi 96 /100 23 °C 14 °C 14 mm 4 323 h –
25 Castelló de la Plana Spain 96 /100 22 °C 14 °C 31 mm 5 391 h 18 °C
26 Marbella Spain 96 /100 21 °C 15 °C 32 mm 5 395 h 17 °C
27 Kahramanmaraş Turkey 96 /100 24 °C 13 °C 35 mm 5 379 h –
28 Valencia Spain 96 /100 24 °C 14 °C 33 mm 5 395 h 18 °C
29 Qinhuangdao China 96 /100 22 °C 13 °C 50 mm 6 340 h 13 °C
30 Huambo Angola 96 /100 25 °C 11 °C 4 mm 1 345 h –
31 Gaborone Botswana 96 /100 24 °C 10 °C 14 mm 2 313 h –
32 Sunnyvale United States 96 /100 22 °C 11 °C 21 mm 3 399 h 12 °C
33 Athens Greece 96 /100 25 °C 15 °C 23 mm 5 385 h 19 °C
34 Cuíto Angola 96 /100 25 °C 11 °C 3 mm 1 345 h –
35 Rustenburg South Africa 96 /100 22 °C 9.1 °C 17 mm 2 307 h –
36 Mutare Zimbabwe 95 /100 22 °C 12 °C 13 mm 3 321 h –
37 Jincheng China 95 /100 24 °C 13 °C 48 mm 6 310 h –
38 Arequipa Peru 95 /100 21 °C 8.9 °C 5 mm 1 337 h –
39 Chipata Zambia 95 /100 25 °C 15 °C 5 mm 1 332 h –
40 Fremont United States 95 /100 22 °C 11 °C 19 mm 4 398 h –
41 Contagem Brazil 95 /100 23 °C 14 °C 32 mm 5 301 h –
42 Logan City Australia 95 /100 22 °C 14 °C 51 mm 5 284 h 23 °C
43 Pretoria South Africa 95 /100 22 °C 8.7 °C 16 mm 2 304 h –
44 Astrakhan Russia 95 /100 24 °C 13 °C 26 mm 5 350 h –
45 Palermo Italy 95 /100 23 °C 15 °C 36 mm 6 398 h 19 °C
46 Tunduma Tanzania 95 /100 23 °C 13 °C 14 mm 3 345 h –
47 Chingola Zambia 95 /100 26 °C 14 °C 3 mm 1 338 h –
48 Cochabamba Bolivia 95 /100 21 °C 9.3 °C 11 mm 2 332 h –
49 Glendale United States 95 /100 25 °C 12 °C 12 mm 2 407 h –
50 Moreno Valley United States 95 /100 25 °C 12 °C 14 mm 3 401 h –

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. Quilicura 98 /100
  2. Limassol 98 /100
  3. Shiraz 97 /100
  4. Wādī as Sīr 97 /100
  5. Ashdod 97 /100

Full ranking for April

June: top 5

  1. Gitega 99 /100
  2. Sumbawanga 98 /100
  3. Songea 98 /100
  4. Chipata 97 /100
  5. Chingola 97 /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 the world 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.