Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in May

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, May is the one. Highs average 20.9 °C, lows 18.3 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. May scores 98 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain falls on only 1 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average May reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 2.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 27.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 15.9 °C.

May is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest May on record still only managed 17 mm, and the driest managed 1 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Mays brought 9 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind sits around 20.5 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 77%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How May sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 19.9 °C in April, 20.9 here, 22.2 in June. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in May

May is at or near the longest days of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's year: 13.5 hours of daylight, gaining 0.6 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20 °C in May — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 23.9 °C in September and bottoms out at 18.8 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

May in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is the weaker option in May — 2.4 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Agadir is the weaker option in May — 10.4 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: May is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind June, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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