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Gyeongju in May
sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the sunniest month of the year
The year in Gyeongju
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- JanJGyeongju in January: avoid
- FebFGyeongju in February: ok
- MarMGyeongju in March: good
- AprAGyeongju in April: good, busy
- MayMGyeongju in May: sweet spot
- JunJGyeongju in June: sweet spot
- JulJGyeongju in July: ok
- AugAGyeongju in August: ok
- SepSGyeongju in September: ok, busy
- OctOGyeongju in October: good, busy
- NovNGyeongju in November: good
- DecDGyeongju in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 24°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 13°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 24°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 7 · 92 mm |
| Humidity | 64% |
| Sunshine | 9.8 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.1 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 0 |
| Crowds | 80 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at the centre (the tombs park): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in May
- Labor Day 1 May 2027
- Alternative holiday for Labor Day 3 May 2027
- Children's Day 5 May 2027
- Buddha's Birthday 13 May 2027
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Gyeongju in pictures
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Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Korea Heritage Service, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A packable rain jacket for the 7 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and F plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Won. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for South Korea: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Gyeongju: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
In May from
The other months at Gyeongju
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