Weather in Shreveport in May

A good month. May works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 28.8 °C, lows 17.6 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

May ranks 5 of 12 in Shreveport: past the worst of the year but short of November, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 28.8 °C days and 17.6 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 12 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 38 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 73 mm — roughly 66% of the month's rain in one day.

May is moderately variable: 33 mm in the driest year against 275 mm in the wettest, around an average of 111 mm. Roughly two Mays in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 2.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How May sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.3 °C warmer than April, and June adds another 4.8 °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

May is at or near the longest days of Shreveport's year: 13.8 hours of daylight, gaining 0.7 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 — 33.9 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Shreveport versus nearby

If Shreveport is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Little Rock is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain. Dallas is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: May works, with November the better month by 13 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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