Egmond aan Zee in May
Sea, with a tide. What an average May looks like here, from five years of weather history.
- Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
- Model mean, kn
- 9.5
- Model gust, kn
- 19.3
- Direction
- SW
- Waves, m
- 0.6
- Surf days
- 21
- Water °C
- 13
- Air °C
- 14
- Sunny days
- 6
- Rain days
- 13
- Wetsuit
- 4/3
May is one of the flattest months here: 21 surf days against 24 in an average month. Best for waves: Oct, Dec and Jan.
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Season
Best for waves: Oct, Dec and Jan
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Surf days
Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
Model mean, kn
11.9
11.8
10.1
10.5
9.5
9.2
10.0
9.6
9.4
11.2
10.9
11.3
Model gust, kn
21.5
21.7
19.4
20.4
19.3
18.9
20.0
19.1
18.4
20.8
20.1
20.8
Direction
WSW
SW
SW
SW
SW
SW
WSW
SW
SW
SW
S
SW
Waves, m
1.2
1.0
0.6
0.7
0.6
0.6
0.8
0.6
0.6
0.9
1.2
1.0
Surf days
28
24
22
23
21
22
26
22
20
27
26
28
Water °C
6
6
7
10
13
17
20
20
19
15
11
8
Air °C
6
7
9
10
14
18
19
20
18
14
9
7
Sunny days
3
3
7
6
6
9
5
6
4
3
2
2
Rain days
15
12
10
11
13
10
16
11
12
16
18
15
Model rows: daytime (09:00 to 18:00) means; a windy day has 2 hours or more at the sport's minimum; a surf day 2 daylight hours of waves of 0.5 m or more; sunny: daytime cloud 30 % or less; rain: 1 mm or more.
From weather models 2021 to 2025. At spots with thermal wind or sea breeze the model reads several knots low; the bars show the shape of the year, riders know the numbers.
Source: Open-Meteo historical weather and marine archive (CC BY 4.0), weather 2021 to 2025, waves and water 2021 to 2025.