Marbella in May
The last comfortable month before the heat properly arrives, and the sea is finally worth a proper swim.
Weather in May
Full May weather, day by day normals: May
Sea temperature in May
warm enough for most swimmers, and rising fast toward summer
Sea temperature, bathing water and jellyfish reports: Average sea temperature
AEMET's normal for May reaches a 24.3°C daytime high with rain down to just 20mm over 3.1 days, one of the driest, sunniest stretches of the year at 292 hours. The sea keeps climbing too, 18.3°C on Open-Meteo's reanalysis, warm enough for most swimmers who were waiting it out. The month usually closes with the Romería de San Bernabé, a procession out of the town centre that opens the town's own saint's-day week; the Feria de San Bernabé that follows most often lands in the first half of June instead, see Marbella in June for that half of the same fiesta.
What's on in May
- Romería
- 31 May 2026
The full calendar, every date sourced: Marbella's events calendar
More on May
Questions
What's the weather like in Marbella in May?
A daytime high around 24.3°C, an overnight low near 14.2°C, 3.1 days of rain and 292 hours of sunshine, AEMET's 1981–2010 normal for the Málaga Airport station, the nearest full weather station to Marbella.
Is the sea warm enough to swim in Marbella in May?
Marbella's sea averages 18.3°C in May, an Open-Meteo marine reanalysis for 2023–2025 at the nearest modelled point to the coast, not an in-situ buoy reading.
What's on in Marbella in May?
See the dated town events on this page, each read from the organiser's own listing or the Ayuntamiento de Marbella's own calendar rather than guessed at.
Every weather and sea figure on this page is a published normal, not a forecast for this year; every event date is read from the organiser's own listing or the Ayuntamiento's own calendar on the date shown. Nothing here is estimated or carried over from a previous year without saying so.
AEMET (Málaga Airport, 1981-2010): https://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos?l=6155A&k=and · Open-Meteo marine (2023-2025): https://marine-api.open-meteo.com/v1/marine