Weather in Évora in May

Prime time. May is about as good as Évora gets. Highs average 25.3 °C, lows 10.9 °C, and rain falls on 6 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 falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 36.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 71% of the month's rain in one day.

May is moderately variable: 0 mm in the driest year against 99 mm in the wettest, around an average of 35 mm. Roughly two Mays in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 65%.

How May sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.6 °C warmer than April, and June adds another 5.2 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in May

14.2 hours of daylight, gaining 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Évora's extremes of 14.8 and 9.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 30.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. Within May itself the daily swing is 14.4 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Évora versus nearby

If Évora is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lisbon is close enough to be a coin toss — 6.3 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Leiria is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: May is the answer for Évora. If it is booked out or priced out, April is the next best thing at 6 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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