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Valencia in May

sweet spot · the best month to go

The year in Valencia

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  1. Valencia in January: good
  2. Valencia in February: good
  3. Valencia in March: good
  4. Valencia in April: sweet spot
  5. Valencia in May: sweet spot
  6. Valencia in June: sweet spot
  7. Valencia in July: good
  8. Valencia in August: good
  9. Valencia in September: good
  10. Valencia in October: good
  11. Valencia in November: good
  12. Valencia in December: good
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  • Busy
May at Valencia is 24°C by day and 15°C at night, with 3 rainy days and about 12 hours of sun a day. 24C max, 3 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high24°C
Nightly low15°C
Feels like, afternoon24°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more3 · 30 mm
Humidity64%
Sunshine12.5 h/day
Daylight14.4 h/day
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 the old town, 9 km from the airport (VLC): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

May: about usual. No month stands out as busy; quietest in December and January.

Public holidays in May

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

Valencia in pictures

What to pack

  • Sun protection: about 12 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. Everything for Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

May elsewhere

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