Best weather in May
The 15 countries whose May comes closest to comfortable travel weather, scored from ten years of ERA5 data. Open any of them for the month in detail — regional breakdown, the rest of the year, and current travel-advisory levels.
Scored against the default profile: days 22–30 °C, nights 12–22 °C, no more than light rain, at least 6 hours of sun. Set your own on the map — averages, not a forecast.
- Cyprus in MayAsia25°C18 mm9.4 h sunAll year
- Malawi in MayAfrica25°C27 mm7.4 h sunAll year
- Madagascar in MayAfrica27°C34 mm7.0 h sunAll year
- Afghanistan in MayAsia26°C31 mm9.9 h sunAll year
- Tanzania in MayAfrica27°C47 mm6.8 h sunAll year
- Morocco in MayAfrica28°C14 mm9.5 h sunAll year
- Uzbekistan in MayAsia29°C25 mm8.9 h sunAll year
- Lebanon in MayAsia24°C24 mm9.5 h sunAll year
- Tunisia in MayAfrica29°C16 mm8.9 h sunAll year
- Zambia in MayAfrica27°C6 mm8.4 h sunAll year
- Angola in MayAfrica29°C14 mm8.4 h sunAll year
- Palestine in MayAsia30°C8 mm9.5 h sunAll year
- Mozambique in MayAfrica28°C17 mm7.1 h sunAll year
- Israel in MayAsia30°C7 mm9.7 h sunAll year
- Zimbabwe in MayAfrica26°C6 mm8.2 h sunAll year
How this ranking works
Every country’s May is scored on three things: mean temperature, rainfall per day and sunshine hours, each averaged over ten years of ERA5 reanalysis. The score is the same one the map paints and the country pages print — a country cannot look better here than it does on its own page.
Countries that score identically are ordered by how far inside the comfortable range they sit, so a country in the middle of the band comes before one at its edge. Averages describe a typical May; they are not a forecast for the week you travel, and a national figure hides a lot in a large country — open a country to see its regions.