Weather in Chefchaouen in May

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, May is the one. Highs average 24.7 °C, lows 12 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

May is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is April, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain on 7 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 4 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 35 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 36 mm — roughly 78% of the month's rain in one day.

May is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 124 mm in the wettest, around an average of 46 mm. Roughly two Mays in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How May sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.2 °C warmer than April, and June adds another 6.2 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short. Rain is the thing that moves: June brings 5 days less of it, so pushing the dates later buys drier weather.

Daylight in May

May is at or near the longest days of Chefchaouen's year: 14 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

May in Chefchaouen versus nearby

If Chefchaouen is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Tangier is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.8 °C cooler, 2 days less rain. Fes is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.8 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: May is the answer for Chefchaouen. If it is booked out or priced out, April is the next best thing at 7 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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