The weather in May in Stockholm was incredible this year. You kept wondering when it would end ... but it didn't. As a Swede, you are in a bit of a state of shock. I was also very curious. What has the weather in May in Stockholm and Sweden been like over the past decade? We took a peek back in the blog archive!
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May weather in Stockholm
How is the weather in May in Stockholm? If this year is anything to go by, the holiday weather here is fantastic this time of year, but you have to admit that it's not the norm... According to SMHI, this year we had the highest high pressure in May since 1947. So, what weather do we remember? What weather do you remember?
May 2009
On 21 May 2009 (when we were very green motorhome owners!) we took the motorhome to Tättö sea baths, in Lofthammar north of Västervik. In the picture I am actually sitting outside, but of course with a jacket!
May 2010
In early May 2010 we rolled to Gävleand it doesn't look too hot in the pictures. Not considering that I am wearing a jacket.
May 2011
On 14 May 2011 we went to Skokloster camping to enjoy spring and nature. We definitely did - but of course with a jacket on!
May 2012
Around 18 May we drove to Linköping for city camping and to test Linköping's pubs. Actually, the air is really hot, if you can believe the pictures.
May 2013
On 10 May 2013 we rolled to Trosa sea baths, which is located just outside Trosa. Here it tasted good with a warming fish soup while we sat outside, with the thick jacket on.
May 2014
In May 2014 we stayed a few nights in the motorhome in the car park in Pampas marina. This was just before we lifted the houseboat on land and we had problems with the sewage system, among other things. On 6 May we complained about the blog about the fact that it was 2 degrees below zero, and about running out of gas in the middle of the night ...
May 2015
In May 2015 we were abroad for the whole month, so no reports on the weather in Stockholm ...
May 2016
On 5 May 2016 it was time for first dinner on deck of the year. Compare with two years earlier, when it was below zero at the same time. What a difference!
May 2017
When we sailed in the Stockholm archipelago in early May with the the school ship Gratia, then it was really cold! A little later the same month we drank bubbly and ate prawn sandwiches on deck. in pleasant summer heat.
May 2018
What heat! This year, it was not only hot at times during May, but it was really hot. all the time. Absolutely fantastic!
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Henny says:
Interesting comparison and much more fun to look at than the meteorologists' bars.
05 June 2018 - 6:45
Henny says:
An interesting comparison and much more fun than the bars that meteorologists show. Even up in Norrbotten we had a fantastic and long heatwave in May this year. I have a vague memory of what it was like in the past. I live more in the present nowadays.
05 June 2018 - 8:05
Helena says:
Isn't it? 🙂 Great that you also had a heat wave! Living in the present also sounds good! 🙂
05 June 2018 - 17:46
Lennart says:
Beautiful May certainly justified the expression!
05 June 2018 - 8:33
Helena says:
Indeed!
05 June 2018 - 17:46
Emma, sun like sun? says:
After all, it's fun to go back in time and see what the weather was like during the same period last year. Or in your case, the last ten years! I do it with numbers and graphs because I know that when you think about moving to another country, the weather is important, we looked at what was available before we moved.
Pictures say a lot! But sometimes not everything. Thinking about the picture from Friday 18 May 2018, the sun was shining but the question is whether the jacket was somewhere outside the picture. In the Stockholm area it was 14 degrees that day, sunny but there were a few drops. At least according to my diary. 🙂
05 June 2018 - 8:41
Anette says:
I landed on 17/5 this year, clearly a middle day. Cloudy and almost cold, 18/5 sunny and slightly warmer (went past Freedoms Marina).
After that, high summer heat.
05 June 2018 - 16:51
Helena says:
Anette, how nice that you stopped by the marina! You should have come by and said hello! 🙂 Maybe it was a little cooler some day there ... I have repressed that 😉.
05 June 2018 - 17:49
Helena says:
Emma, I understand that people are interested in the weather of a place they are moving to! Especially Swedes! 😉 But what, 14 degrees that day...? I remember the whole of May as hysterically hot ... (It may have been different in the beginning and I may have forgotten it ;)).
05 June 2018 - 17:47
Emma, sun like sun? says:
I wrote the wrong year, I meant 2012! 😀
08 June 2018 - 9:42
Mr Nils-Åke Hansson says:
Nice to look back. May has been a fantastic "summer" month. One wonders what the summer will be like BUT rain is needed.
05 June 2018 - 9:11
Helena says:
Yes, you do wonder what summer will be like! Of course we need rain! But in addition to that, I would like to take a little more heat 🙂 ðŸ™'
05 June 2018 - 17:49
Ama de casa says:
Lovely flashback! 🙂
As we have spent most of our time in Spain over the last 15 years, including the month of May, it has probably been quite warm all the time.
This year, however, spring has been unusually bad here, according to most people we've spoken to. If it has been sunny, it has been windy... But maybe we have been too spoilt? 🙂
05 June 2018 - 9:30
Emma, sun like sun? says:
No, it's not!!! Shitty weather!
05 June 2018 - 16:20
Helena says:
Sad that you had such bad weather this year! Maybe it was Sweden's luck, for once 😉 Hope you get nicer soon!
05 June 2018 - 17:50
Solan says:
Fun with a look back ?
05 June 2018 - 15:30
Solan says:
Nice to have a photo review...clothes say a lot about the weather ?
05 June 2018 - 15:38
Helena says:
Glad that you liked our different weather report Solan 🙂 .
05 June 2018 - 17:51
Anette says:
It's fun to look back. You forget pretty quickly.
05 June 2018 - 16:52
Helena says:
You do that! Right now I only remember the sun 🙂
05 June 2018 - 17:52
Annette says:
So nice to see it illustrated in pictures!
05 June 2018 - 17:45
Helena says:
Glad you liked our different weather report Annette! 🙂
05 June 2018 - 17:52
BP says:
Here you can clearly see the benefit of having a blog. No discussion without pictorial evidence showing what it has looked like over all these years. Talk about blogs being really good diaries:-)
05 June 2018 - 20:52
Matts Torebring says:
A good flashback in memory. Although I don't think there is an equivalent in the last hundred or so years.
05 June 2018 - 21:16
Christian says:
Fun flashback!
05 June 2018 - 23:00
Shamrock says:
It's fair to say that it has looked colder in the past ...
06 June 2018 - 6:59
Goatfish says:
No two years are the same! It's just a fact and nothing can be planned.
But I rejoice in the present 😀.
Have a great time and enjoy! Hugs
06 June 2018 - 20:18
Lena - good for the soul says:
Nice to see! But not particularly surprising. More surprising has been the weather this year, and as I said, you went and waited for it to end. How nice it has been!
Hug Lena
07 June 2018 - 6:03
TravelAnna says:
It's great to have this kind of retrospective! Impressed with the order you have in the image archive. 🙂
I remember the summer of 1994 as terribly hot. Then I remember a June sometime in the 70s/80s when there was hail!
08 June 2018 - 12:42
Maria's Memoirs says:
Fun way to keep statistics on the weather 😉 I have noticed one thing in recent years, and that is that a lot of people in my surroundings seem to remember only the bad weather, for example, it was a couple of summers ago that I thought the weather was nothing to complain about at all (of course it will rain a little from time to time as well, but overall a lot of sunny days and heat periods), at the same time, "everyone" complains at the end of the summer about how bad the weather has been, and I do not understand anything. I guess they repressed all the nice days because they happened to work then or something like that...? In any case, some people seem to have an unrealistically high expectation of what a Scandinavian summer should be like 😉 After a really hot May, people here are already talking about "well, that's that summer", because they've already prepared themselves for the rest of the summer to be bad. Have you noticed similar attitudes in Stockholm? 🙂
10 June 2018 - 11:47