Average May Temperatures for Tennessee

Average temperatures for May at cities and towns throughout Tennessee are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Eastern Tennessee

Average May temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
79	55	Athens	26	13
77	52	Bristol	25	11
81	59	Chattanooga	27	15
80	56	Cleveland	26	13
74	53	Crossville	23	12
78	55	Dayton	26	13
75	51	Gatlinburg	24	11
78	52	Greeneville	25	11
78	54	Kingsport	26	12
79	57	Knoxville	26	14
74	57	Lookout Mountain	23	14
76	56	Morristown	25	14
74	49	Mountain City	23	9
78	57	Mousetail Landing Park	26	14
78	56	Oak Ridge	25	13
76	50	Oneida	24	10
80	55	Sevierville	27	13

Middle Tennessee

Average daily temperatures in May
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
78	55	Cheatham Lake Dam	26	13
79	57	Clarksville	26	14
79	54	Columbia	26	12
78	53	Cookeville	25	12
77	57	Dover	25	14
74	54	Monteagle	23	12
79	55	Murfreesboro	26	13
80	58	Nashville	27	15
80	56	Shelbyville	26	13
78	56	Tullahoma	25	13

Western Tennessee

May temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
80	60	Dyersburg	27	15
80	58	Jackson	27	14
79	58	Martin	26	14
82	62	Memphis	28	17
81	59	Savannah	27	15

Average Temperatures for Tennessee in May

Eastern Tennessee

Middle Tennessee

Western Tennessee

Reference

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