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The coolest places in the world in May

Longyearbyen tops the list at -1.6 °C in May. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Rainfall
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -1.6 °C -1.6 °C 22 mm
2 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0.7 °C 0.7 °C 136 mm
3 Nuuk Greenland 2.6 °C 2.6 °C 60 mm
4 Saint-Pierre Saint Pierre and Miquelon 5.1 °C 5.1 °C 102 mm
5 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 5.7 °C 5.7 °C 84 mm
6 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 5.8 °C 5.8 °C 67 mm
7 Stanley Falkland Islands 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 48 mm
8 Murmansk Russia 7.5 °C 7.5 °C 51 mm
9 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 8.6 °C 8.6 °C 67 mm
10 Reykjavík Iceland 9.3 °C 9.3 °C 92 mm
11 Skardu Pakistan 9.6 °C 9.6 °C 92 mm
12 Surgut Russia 9.6 °C 9.6 °C 52 mm
13 Severodvinsk Russia 10.0 °C 10.0 °C 53 mm
14 Mariehamn Aland Islands 10 °C 10 °C 36 mm
15 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 10 °C 10 °C 54 mm
16 Anchorage United States 11 °C 11 °C 41 mm
17 Oulu Finland 11 °C 11 °C 49 mm
18 Bratsk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 39 mm
19 Kushiro Japan 11 °C 11 °C 105 mm
20 Aberdeen United Kingdom 11 °C 11 °C 54 mm
21 Arkhangel’sk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 56 mm
22 Vladivostok Russia 12 °C 12 °C 77 mm
23 Stavanger Norway 12 °C 12 °C 82 mm
24 Douglas Isle of Man 12 °C 12 °C 58 mm
25 Petrozavodsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 55 mm
26 Bergen Norway 12 °C 12 °C 117 mm
27 Saint Peter Port Guernsey 12 °C 12 °C 45 mm
28 Halifax Canada 12 °C 12 °C 85 mm
29 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 70 mm
30 Trondheim Norway 12 °C 12 °C 71 mm
31 Puerto Montt Chile 13 °C 13 °C 254 mm
32 Nyingchi China 13 °C 13 °C 160 mm
33 Tomakomai Japan 13 °C 13 °C 111 mm
34 Yakutsk Russia 13 °C 13 °C 26 mm
35 Helsinki Finland 13 °C 13 °C 44 mm
36 Edinburgh United Kingdom 13 °C 13 °C 57 mm
37 Syktyvkar Russia 13 °C 13 °C 54 mm
38 Tampere Finland 13 °C 13 °C 46 mm
39 Belfast United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 71 mm
40 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 49 mm
41 Christchurch New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 49 mm
42 Berezniki Russia 14 °C 14 °C 64 mm
43 La Paz Bolivia 14 °C 14 °C 16 mm
44 Glasgow United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 80 mm
45 Sunderland United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 48 mm
46 Saint Helier Jersey 14 °C 14 °C 54 mm
47 Wellington New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 71 mm
48 Hakodate Japan 14 °C 14 °C 99 mm
49 Stockholm Sweden 14 °C 14 °C 43 mm
50 Saint Petersburg Russia 14 °C 14 °C 51 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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