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Typical May weather

Boise

Idaho · May

The valley at its lushest, and the window is short.

72° days
48° nights

about 4 rainy days · 14½ hours of daylight

What to pack

What May feels like

May is the greenest Boise gets, and everyone here knows the window shuts the moment the heat arrives. The Saturday market fills up downtown and the outfitters on the Payette open their rafting season on the back of the snowmelt.

Expect about 4 days with real rain — enough to notice, not enough to plan around. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy.

The numbers

Typical high72°
Typical low48°
Days with real rain4
Total rain1.4 in
Humiditydry air
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:19 am / 9:03 pm

How May compares

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