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Orlando in May

good · a good time to go · the sunniest month of the year

The year in Orlando

Tap a month for its page

  1. Orlando in January: good
  2. Orlando in February: good, busy
  3. Orlando in March: sweet spot
  4. Orlando in April: sweet spot
  5. Orlando in May: good
  6. Orlando in June: avoid
  7. Orlando in July: avoid
  8. Orlando in August: avoid
  9. Orlando in September: avoid
  10. Orlando in October: good
  11. Orlando in November: good
  12. Orlando in December: ok, busy
  • Sweet spot
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  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
May at Orlando is 31°C by day and 20°C at night, with 9 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. 31C max, 9 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low20°C
Feels like, afternoon34°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 146 mm
Humidity71%
Sunshine11.2 h/day
Daylight13.6 h/day
Days over 35°C3
Crowds100 / 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 International Drive, 15 km from the airport (MCO): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

May: quiet. Busiest in February and December; quietest in May, September and November.

Public holidays in May

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Orlando in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

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On arrival in Orlando: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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