Average May Temperatures for Arkansas

Average temperatures for May at cities, towns and lakes throughout Arkansas are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Southern, Central and Northern Arkansas.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Eastern Arkansas

Average May temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
79	58	Batesville	26	14
80	61	Blytheville	27	16
84	62	Eudora	29	16
81	62	Helena	27	16
79	57	Jonesboro	26	14
81	62	Marianna	27	16
80	61	West Memphis	27	16

Southern Arkansas

Average daily temperatures in May
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
84	61	El Dorado	29	16
82	59	Magnolia	28	15
82	62	Monticello	28	17
82	62	Pine Bluff	28	16
82	62	Texarkana	28	16

Central Arkansas

May temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
82	60	Benton	28	15
80	57	Blue Mountain Lake Dam	27	14
81	60	Fort Smith	27	15
80	60	Hot Springs	27	16
79	56	Lake Ouachita Dam	26	13
81	59	Little Rock	27	15
77	56	Mena	25	13
80	59	Russellville	27	15
82	61	Searcy	28	16

Northern Arkansas

Average May temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
77	54	Bentonville	25	12
77	54	Fayetteville	25	12
79	57	Greers Ferry Lake Dam	26	14
77	57	Harrison	25	14
77	56	Mountain Home	25	13

Average Temperatures for Arkansas in May

Eastern Arkansas

Southern Arkansas

Central Arkansas

Northern Arkansas

Reference

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