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The coolest places in the world in May: ranked by average high temperature

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

Top three in May: Longyearbyen (-1.6 °C) , Grytviken (0.7 °C) , Nuuk (2.6 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 16 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -1.6 °C -1.6 °C -4.6 °C 22 mm 6 486 h –
2 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0.7 °C 0.7 °C -2.6 °C 136 mm 19 135 h 2.1 °C
3 Nuuk Greenland 2.6 °C 2.6 °C -2.5 °C 60 mm 8 354 h 1.4 °C
4 Saint-Pierre Saint Pierre and Miquelon 5.1 °C 5.1 °C 3.3 °C 102 mm 11 287 h 3.6 °C
5 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 5.7 °C 5.7 °C 0.9 °C 84 mm 15 160 h 5.2 °C
6 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 5.8 °C 5.8 °C -0.8 °C 67 mm 9 322 h 3.1 °C
7 Stanley Falkland Islands 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 3.7 °C 48 mm 12 154 h 7.1 °C
8 Murmansk Russia 7.5 °C 7.5 °C 0.1 °C 51 mm 12 325 h –
9 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 8.6 °C 8.6 °C 5.6 °C 67 mm 16 342 h 7.5 °C
10 Reykjavík Iceland 9.3 °C 9.3 °C 3.3 °C 92 mm 16 358 h 7.2 °C
11 Skardu Pakistan 9.6 °C 9.6 °C -0.2 °C 92 mm 14 383 h –
12 Surgut Russia 9.6 °C 9.6 °C 0.2 °C 52 mm 11 335 h –
13 Severodvinsk Russia 10.0 °C 10.0 °C 1.9 °C 53 mm 11 387 h 4.3 °C
14 Mariehamn Aland Islands 10 °C 10 °C 5.9 °C 36 mm 7 416 h 5.6 °C
15 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 10 °C 10 °C 0.5 °C 54 mm 11 331 h –
16 Anchorage United States 11 °C 11 °C 2.9 °C 41 mm 9 389 h 2.4 °C
17 Oulu Finland 11 °C 11 °C 3.5 °C 49 mm 10 396 h 2.9 °C
18 Bratsk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 2.0 °C 39 mm 10 383 h –
19 Kushiro Japan 11 °C 11 °C 5.8 °C 105 mm 10 277 h 5.6 °C
20 Aberdeen United Kingdom 11 °C 11 °C 7.0 °C 54 mm 12 357 h 8.4 °C
21 Arkhangel’sk Russia 11 °C 11 °C 2.0 °C 56 mm 11 375 h –
22 Vladivostok Russia 12 °C 12 °C 7.4 °C 77 mm 11 298 h 7.6 °C
23 Stavanger Norway 12 °C 12 °C 6.5 °C 82 mm 12 383 h 8.8 °C
24 Douglas Isle of Man 12 °C 12 °C 9.0 °C 58 mm 11 367 h 10 °C
25 Petrozavodsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 4.3 °C 55 mm 11 384 h –
26 Bergen Norway 12 °C 12 °C 5.4 °C 117 mm 14 380 h 8.5 °C
27 Saint Peter Port Guernsey 12 °C 12 °C 11 °C 45 mm 8 366 h 12 °C
28 Halifax Canada 12 °C 12 °C 6.1 °C 85 mm 11 275 h 5.0 °C
29 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia 12 °C 12 °C 4.0 °C 70 mm 11 305 h –
30 Trondheim Norway 12 °C 12 °C 3.8 °C 71 mm 15 369 h –
31 Puerto Montt Chile 13 °C 13 °C 7.8 °C 254 mm 19 185 h 11 °C
32 Nyingchi China 13 °C 13 °C 5.5 °C 160 mm 23 335 h –
33 Tomakomai Japan 13 °C 13 °C 7.0 °C 111 mm 13 302 h 8.1 °C
34 Yakutsk Russia 13 °C 13 °C 2.0 °C 26 mm 7 388 h –
35 Helsinki Finland 13 °C 13 °C 5.8 °C 44 mm 9 402 h 6.2 °C
36 Edinburgh United Kingdom 13 °C 13 °C 6.7 °C 57 mm 13 330 h 9.5 °C
37 Syktyvkar Russia 13 °C 13 °C 2.9 °C 54 mm 11 351 h –
38 Tampere Finland 13 °C 13 °C 5.0 °C 46 mm 9 384 h –
39 Belfast United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 8.1 °C 71 mm 14 334 h –
40 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 6.9 °C 49 mm 11 349 h 9.4 °C
41 Christchurch New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 6.1 °C 49 mm 8 222 h 13 °C
42 Berezniki Russia 14 °C 14 °C 3.4 °C 64 mm 11 356 h –
43 La Paz Bolivia 14 °C 14 °C 2.7 °C 16 mm 5 337 h –
44 Glasgow United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 6.3 °C 80 mm 14 319 h –
45 Sunderland United Kingdom 14 °C 14 °C 7.2 °C 48 mm 11 351 h 9.4 °C
46 Saint Helier Jersey 14 °C 14 °C 11 °C 54 mm 10 361 h 12 °C
47 Wellington New Zealand 14 °C 14 °C 11 °C 71 mm 10 235 h 14 °C
48 Hakodate Japan 14 °C 14 °C 8.0 °C 99 mm 11 283 h 11 °C
49 Stockholm Sweden 14 °C 14 °C 6.4 °C 43 mm 9 400 h 6.8 °C
50 Saint Petersburg Russia 14 °C 14 °C 5.8 °C 51 mm 9 390 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. Kayes 42 °C
  2. N'Djamena 41 °C
  3. Wad Medani 41 °C
  4. Singa 41 °C
  5. Niamey 41 °C

Full ranking for April

June: top 5

  1. Grytviken -0.5 °C
  2. Longyearbyen 3.3 °C
  3. Port-aux-Français 4.4 °C
  4. Stanley 5.1 °C
  5. Nuuk 8.8 °C

Full ranking for June

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in May, lowest 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 population.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering 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.