It is a good month for the beach before summer and for cycling the path along the south coast to Calheta. Gastronomy Week puts limpets, black scabbardfish and bolo do caco on the table.
🌡️ The weather in May
- Mean temperature
- 18.5 °C
- Mean daily high
- 21.2 °C
- Mean daily low
- 15.8 °C
- Rain in the month
- 18.1 mm
- Days with rain (≥ 1 mm)
- 3.5
- Days reaching 25 °C
- 0.5
- Nights staying above 20 °C
- 0.1
Climate normals 1991-2020, measured at Porto Santo airport (78 m): thirty-year averages, not a forecast.
🌊 The sea
- Mean water temperature
- 19.3 °C
Monthly mean of ten years of measurements, not today’s temperature.
☀️ Daylight
- Sunrise
- 07:06
- Sunset
- 20:57
- Length of day
- 13 h 51 min
Computed for the island on 15 May, in local time.
For today’s weather and the days ahead, see the live weather. Porto Santo weather today →
📅 What’s on in May
Dates are those of the latest published edition.
- 9May🍷 Food🔁 Every year
🐟 Gastronomy Week
📍 Porto Santo Restaurants · 9 – 16 May 2026 · Restaurant prices