Sequoia and Kings Canyon in May
good · a good time to go
The year in Sequoia and Kings Canyon
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- JanJSequoia and Kings Canyon in January: avoid
- FebFSequoia and Kings Canyon in February: avoid
- MarMSequoia and Kings Canyon in March: avoid
- AprASequoia and Kings Canyon in April: ok
- MayMSequoia and Kings Canyon in May: good
- JunJSequoia and Kings Canyon in June: good, busy
- JulJSequoia and Kings Canyon in July: good, busy
- AugASequoia and Kings Canyon in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSSequoia and Kings Canyon in September: sweet spot
- OctOSequoia and Kings Canyon in October: sweet spot
- NovNSequoia and Kings Canyon in November: ok
- DecDSequoia and Kings Canyon in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 14°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 2°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 13°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 9 · 65 mm |
| Humidity | 65% |
| Sunshine | 13.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 14.1 h/day |
| Hiking | 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C fair |
| Crowds | 94 / 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 Wuksachi Village, by the Giant Forest: 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; they count toward the crowd score above.
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 2°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
- 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
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May elsewhere
In May from
The other months at Sequoia and Kings Canyon
- January avoid
- February avoid
- March avoid
- April ok
- May
- June good
- July good
- August sweet spot
- September sweet spot
- October sweet spot
- November ok
- December ok
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