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Best cities to visit in May (2026)

25 cities score best for May on the visit score, which weighs temperature, rain and sunshine from the Open-Meteo climate record. Los Angeles leads at 10 out of 10, with a daily average of 19 °C and 10 mm of rain that month. The median mid-range daily cost across the list is $120.

Ordered by that month's visit score, highest first.
#	City	Country	Average high	Average low	Rain	Visit score
1	Los Angeles	United States	24.3 °C	13.2 °C	10 mm	10.0 / 10
2	Lima	Peru	21.4 °C	17.2 °C	1 mm	10.0 / 10
3	Lisbon	Portugal	23.4 °C	14.4 °C	20 mm	10.0 / 10
4	Jerusalem	Israel	27.2 °C	15.0 °C	17 mm	10.0 / 10
5	São Paulo	Brazil	24.5 °C	14.6 °C	37 mm	10.0 / 10
6	Tianjin	China	27.1 °C	15.7 °C	26 mm	10.0 / 10
7	Tehran	Iran	30.2 °C	18.0 °C	15 mm	10.0 / 10
8	Alexandria	Egypt	27.4 °C	17.6 °C	4 mm	10.0 / 10
9	Jinan	China	27.9 °C	17.1 °C	31 mm	10.0 / 10
10	Casablanca	Morocco	23.2 °C	15.5 °C	22 mm	10.0 / 10
11	Zibo	China	28.5 °C	16.5 °C	38 mm	10.0 / 10
12	Ürümqi	China	24.6 °C	12.8 °C	32 mm	10.0 / 10
13	Lanzhou	China	25.8 °C	11.8 °C	37 mm	10.0 / 10
14	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	25.3 °C	15.1 °C	2 mm	10.0 / 10
15	Dakar	Senegal	27.1 °C	22.1 °C	0 mm	10.0 / 10
16	Mashhad	Iran	27.7 °C	13.7 °C	32 mm	10.0 / 10
17	Lubumbashi	Democratic Republic of the Congo	26.0 °C	13.6 °C	5 mm	10.0 / 10
18	Brasília	Brazil	26.0 °C	15.8 °C	3 mm	10.0 / 10
19	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	26.5 °C	20.4 °C	40 mm	9.1 / 10
20	Athens	Greece	24.6 °C	15.8 °C	51 mm	9.1 / 10
21	Beijing	China	27.5 °C	15.2 °C	52 mm	9.1 / 10
22	Qingdao	China	21.6 °C	14.7 °C	57 mm	9.1 / 10
23	Shenyang	China	24.0 °C	12.0 °C	59 mm	9.1 / 10
24	Taiyuan	China	26.0 °C	12.8 °C	44 mm	9.1 / 10
25	Zhengzhou	China	29.1 °C	17.6 °C	66 mm	9.1 / 10

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Sources

GeoNames city database — CC BY 4.0, fetched September 14, 2026
Open-Meteo climate archive — CC BY 4.0, fetched September 21, 2026

Dates are the most recent fetch across the cities on this page. Every sentence here is generated from the data by rule, with no AI writing; the formulas are public.