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Photo by Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
La Palma in May
sweet spot · one of the best months to go
The year in La Palma
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- JanJLa Palma in January: ok, busy
- FebFLa Palma in February: good
- MarMLa Palma in March: good
- AprALa Palma in April: sweet spot
- MayMLa Palma in May: sweet spot
- JunJLa Palma in June: sweet spot
- JulJLa Palma in July: sweet spot
- AugALa Palma in August: sweet spot
- SepSLa Palma in September: sweet spot
- OctOLa Palma in October: good
- NovNLa Palma in November: good, busy
- DecDLa Palma in December: ok, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 21°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 16°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 23°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 2 · 16 mm |
| Humidity | 72% |
| Sunshine | 12.6 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.6 h/day |
| Hiking | 28 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C good |
| Crowds | 100 / 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 Los Llanos de Aridane, 16 km from the airport (SPC): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in May
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
La Palma in pictures
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H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Sun protection: about 13 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 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in La Palma: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
In May from
The other months at La Palma
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