Beaches in May
7 of the 15 beaches are in season in May: 1 a sweet spot, 1 good, 5 ok.
May is a sweet spot at 1 of the 15: Barcelona. Best avoided at 8 of them.
Ranked for May
| # | Place | Verdict | High | Rain | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona Spain | sweet spotbusy | 21° | 6d | shoulder season |
| 2 | Cape Town South Africa | good | 21° | 6d | 21C max, 6 rainy days |
| 3 | Goa India | ok | 33° | 9d | 33C max, 9 rainy days |
| 4 | Sydney Australia | okbusy | 20° | 8d | shoulder season |
| 5 | Da Nang Vietnam | okbusy | 32° | 8d | shoulder season |
| 6 | Bali Indonesia | ok | 29° | 17d | 29C max, 17 rainy days |
| 7 | Mauritius Mauritius | ok | 25° | 20d | 25C max, 20 rainy days |
Not this May
- Abu Dhabi extreme heat: 28 days over 35C
- Colombo monsoon: 26 rainy days, 347mm
- Dubai extreme heat: 21 days over 35C
- Kochi monsoon: 28 rainy days, 551mm
- Muscat extreme heat: 28 days over 35C
- Phuket monsoon: 24 rainy days, 254mm
- The Andaman Islands monsoon: 24 rainy days, 308mm
- The Maldives monsoon: 21 rainy days, 271mm
Other months for Beaches
- January 7 sweet
- February 8 sweet
- March 8 sweet
- April 5 sweet
- May
- June 2 sweet
- July 4 sweet
- August 4 sweet
- September 4 sweet
- October 2 sweet
- November 1 sweet
- December 0 sweet
- Every month, side by side
May elsewhere
Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Beaches as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.