May Sunshine Averages for Cities in Europe

The tables below give May averages for the number of hours of sunshine at major cities throughout Europe.

The cities range from Amsterdam to Zurich and from Reykjavík to İstanbul. They are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Amsterdam to Kazan, Lille to Pristina and Reykjavík to Zurich.

Included in this list are Europe's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The month's totals are averages of historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Total May sunshine

City	Hours
Amsterdam, Netherlands	222
Andorra la Vella, Andorra	179
Athens, Greece	291
Barcelona, Spain	244
Belgrade, Serbia	242
Berlin, Germany	222
Birmingham, United Kingdom	180
Brussels, Belgium	191
Bucharest, Romania	246
Budapest, Hungary	234
Chisinau, Moldova	254
Cologne, Germany	192
Copenhagen, Denmark	262
Dublin, Ireland	192
Glasgow, United Kingdom	173
Hamburg, Germany	217
Helsinki, Finland	275
İstanbul, Turkey	223
Kazan, Russia	282

Average amount of sun in May

City	Hours
Lille, France	194
Lisbon, Portugal	291
Ljubljana, Slovenia	210
London, United Kingdom	171
Luxembourg, Luxembourg	206
Lyon, France	221
Madrid, Spain	272
Manchester, United Kingdom	188
Marseille, France	293
Milan, Italy	211
Minsk, Belarus	253
Monaco, Monaco	267
Moscow, Russia	265
Munich, Germany	199
Naples, Italy	245
Nice, France	267
Nizhny & Novgorod, Russia	268
Odessa, Ukraine	265
Oslo, Norway	220
Paris, France	194
Podgorica, Montenegro	250
Prague, Czech Republic	214
Pristina, Kosovo	228

Average May sun

City	Hours
Reykjavík, Iceland	192
Riga, Latvia	264
Rostov-on-Don, Russia	265
Rotterdam, Netherlands	214
Saint Petersburg, Russia	260
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	192
Skopje, Macedonia	245
Sofia, Bulgaria	211
Stockholm, Sweden	276
Tallinn, Estonia	287
Turin, Italy	195
Vaduz, Liechtenstein	166
Valletta, Malta	301
Vienna, Austria	239
Vilnius, Lithuania	241
Zagreb, Croatia	229
Zurich, Switzerland	186