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Photo: Ethan Walsweer, Unsplash.
Lake Tahoe in May
sweet spot · one of the best months to go
The year in Lake Tahoe
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- JanJLake Tahoe in January: good
- FebFLake Tahoe in February: good
- MarMLake Tahoe in March: sweet spot
- AprALake Tahoe in April: good
- MayMLake Tahoe in May: sweet spot
- JunJLake Tahoe in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJLake Tahoe in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugALake Tahoe in August: good, busy
- SepSLake Tahoe in September: sweet spot
- OctOLake Tahoe in October: sweet spot
- NovNLake Tahoe in November: ok
- DecDLake Tahoe in December: avoid
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- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 15°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 3°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 14°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 6 · 40 mm |
| Humidity | 57% |
| Sunshine | 13.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.3 h/day |
| 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 South Lake Tahoe, below Heavenly: 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.
Lake Tahoe in pictures
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DimiTalen (talk · contribs), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 3°C.
- 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 A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the United states dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. Everything for United States: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Lake Tahoe: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
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The other months at Lake Tahoe
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