Weather in Split in May

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, May is the one. Highs average 21.8 °C, lows 15.7 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

May ranks 2 of 12 in Split. Only June scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 9 days, 2 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average May reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 30.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 39 mm — roughly 68% of the month's rain in one day.

May is moderately variable: 14 mm in the driest year against 124 mm in the wettest, around an average of 57 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 71%.

How May sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.3 °C warmer than April, and June adds another 4.7 °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

14.7 hours of daylight, gaining 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Split's extremes of 15.4 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Split versus nearby

If Split is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Dubrovnik is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Slavonski Brod is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain.

So: May is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 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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