Ripon Weather in May
Ripon in May
The short of it: Ripon in May averages a high of 16 °C (60 °F) and a low of 7 °C (44 °F), with 47 mm (1.9 in) of rain and about 15 h 58 min of daylight. Rated 3 of 5 for a visit; the best months are July and August. Source: TerraClimate climate normals, 1991–2020.
Average high 16° · low 7° · rain 47 mm · daylight 15 h 58 min
✦✦✦ Fair for a visit · best months: July & August
Thirty years of records give Ripon an average May high of 16°, a low of 7° and some 47 mm of rain. Much like April: highs about 16°, nights near 7°. A wool coat will serve you well. Rain is modest, about 47 mm, the 9th wettest month.
The sun is up for about 15 h 58 min in mid-May, 120 minutes more than a month before.
For the traveller: pack layers, a wool coat and stout boots. The Almanac rates May 3 of 5 for a visit; the finest months here are July and August.
Against its neighbours, Ripon runs about middling and drier than most in May. Harrogate, 16 km to the S, sees much the same highs.
May in Ripon, by the numbers
- Warmth rank
- 5th warmest of 12
- Rain rank
- 9th wettest of 12
- Versus April
- 3° warmer, 2.0 mm more rain
- Versus June
- 3° colder
- Day–night spread
- 9°
- Snow season
- seldom any
- Daylight, mid-month
- 15 h 58 min
- Average wind
- 14 km/h