Average Precipitation for Virginia in May

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during May at cities and other locations around Virginia.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Coastal Virginia in the east, Piedmont or central Virginia, and the Mountains, including the Shenandoah Valley in the northwest and the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.

Virginia's Mountains

Average monthly precipitation in May
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
13	Abingdon	4.4	112
14	Blacksburg	4.5	114
16	Burkes Garden	4.7	120
11	Galax	4.0	101
14	Harrisonburg	4.0	102
14	Hot Springs	4.7	119
13	Mount Weather	4.9	124
12	Pennington Gap	4.3	110
12	Roanoke	4.3	109
13	Staunton	4.1	103
14	Winchester	4.2	107
15	Wise	4.6	117

Piedmont Virginia

May averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
12	Arlington	3.9	100
13	Charlottesville	4.6	118
11	Danville	4.4	113
13	Fredericksburg	4.2	106
11	John H Kerr Dam	3.5	89
12	Lynchburg	4.0	101
12	Martinsville	4.5	114
12	Petersburg	4.4	111
12	Philpott Lake Dam	4.3	108
11	Richmond	4.0	102

Coastal Virginia

Average amount of rain and snow in May
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
12	Cape Charles	3.5	88
12	Newport News	3.7	93
11	Norfolk	3.8	96
9	North River	4.4	111
10	Painter	3.7	93
11	Suffolk	4.0	100
11	Wallops Island	3.2	81
11	Williamsburg	3.9	99

Average Precipitation for Virginia in May

Virginia's Mountains

Piedmont Virginia

Coastal Virginia

Reference

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