A longer wander, with room for a pause.
A May day can join a neighbourhood walk to an exhibition and a good lunch. Keep the plan compact enough to stop somewhere you like instead of passing everything on the way to the next booking.
For Lisbon in May, use the monthly climate as planning context, then check the daily forecast closer to your trip. Choose a date in the calendar for programmes with published dates, and keep longer exhibitions and festival periods separate. Pick one indoor option and one neighbourhood stop so the day can stay flexible.
SEASONAL AVERAGE · NOT A DAILY FORECAST
IPMA · Instituto Geofísico station 535 · 1991–2020 monthly normals. These are not daily extremes, a forecast for this year or a count of rain days already observed.
The forecast covers only the next seven days when available. Later travel dates keep their seasonal averages until a forecast is published.
DAYLIGHT · CALCULATED ESTIMATE
For 8 May 2027 · Lisbon city-centre reference
Lisbon local time, rounded to minutes. Buildings, hills and clouds affect the view. Check the forecast too. Choose a calendar date to change the estimate.
Lisbon clock & calculation details →YOUR MONTH, ONE DAY AT A TIME
14 programmes and 1 additional festival editions currently listed for this month. Coverage is partial; a missing listing does not mean there is nothing on.
Date numbers count programmes with explicit published dates, not daily performances inside longer periods. Terracotta outline: today. Select a date to update the lists and daylight estimate.
1 May 2027
Teatro Armando Cortez
Mowgli brings Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book to Teatro Armando Cortez, with music, movement and a story about people and nature. Mowgli and Shanti try to connect their different worlds while facing Shere Khan. Choose a family weekend performance; weekday sessions are for schools. The theatre lists Saturdays at 15:00 and Sundays at 11:00 during the announced run.
Session details & tickets →8 May 2027
Coliseu de Lisboa
RY‑X returns to Portugal to present DUSK, his latest work, alongside themes that have marked his career.
Session details & tickets →
1 May 2027
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna
CAM uses the storytelling world of One Thousand and One Nights to explore its collection. Think gallery visit and stories told through artworks, not a staged performance of the tales.
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1 May 2027
Campo Pequeno
This is a food-shop stop, not a flea market: certified organic producers bring fruit, vegetables, herbs and other Portuguese products to the Campo Pequeno garden. Pick up something seasonal for a picnic or a simple meal at home. The tourism board lists Saturday editions and free entry; confirm the current arrangements with Agrobio.
Session details & tickets →8 May 2027
Coliseu de Lisboa
The RY‑X VIP package offers exclusive access to the concert, including early entry, a preview of the soundcheck, and a limited‑edition tour print signed by the artist. Buyers receive a curated merchandising item chosen by RY‑X, a commemorative badge and lanyard, and priority for future merchandise purchases. All items are delivered on the day of the show.
Session details & tickets →These periods are not proof of a session or opening on each date. Confirm the visit or actual session with the organiser.
Programme until 31 Dec 2027
Museu Banksy Lisbon, Rua Viriato 25B, Lisboa
Graffiti, films and installations introduce Banksy’s political and social ideas. The museum displays reproductions, not a collection of original street works—useful to know before choosing this stop.
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Programme until 20 Sept 2027
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna
See collection works that usually stay out of the galleries, in a space also used by museum professionals. This is a supervised, limited-capacity visit; check the published entry slots before arriving.
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Programme until 30 May 2027
Pavilhão Julião Sarmento
Works from the Julião Sarmento Collection explore how American cinema, cities and cultural myths shaped postwar art. Rita McBride’s Arena is reimagined using reused materials. This is a gallery exhibition at Pavilhão Julião Sarmento, not a screening of the film.
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25 Oct 2026
MACAM
MACAM’s permanent display follows the two phases of Armando Martins’s collecting. Gallery 1 traces Portuguese art from the late nineteenth century into modernism; Gallery 2 brings Portuguese and international contemporary work into dialogue through painting, photography, video and installation. The exhibition occupies Galleries 1 and 2; a chapel visit is not included in this ticket.
Session details & tickets →Browse the full May 2027 event calendar →
29 Apr 2027 – 9 May 2027 · edition period, not individual daily sessions
Independent cinema, with room for a film you would not otherwise find. Festival dates are announced; individual screening details stay with the organiser.
Official edition & booking ↗Programme snapshot updated 2026-10-25 22:58 UTC. This is not a manual check of every session or live ticket availability.
Bring a light layer for later and use the current forecast for a long coast or river outing. The average temperatures do not describe every evening.
The figures above are the 1991–2020 monthly climate normals for Lisbon's Instituto Geofísico station. An average daily high or low is not an extreme, and an average rain-day count does not tell you which days will be wet. Check the daily forecast and current warnings before an outdoor commitment.
Choose one of the existing day-trip guides only when you are ready to plan the separate transport and return. A city morning with coffee and a garden is an equally good plan.
Choose a meal near the part of the city you want to explore. Our neighbourhood and food guides keep the existing place notes, branch details and saved-list links together. For a bigger route, Plan my days can combine places with announced dated sessions; the final booking stays with the venue.
Numbers on the dates count programmes with published single dates or explicit session dates, not a ticket for each listed idea. An exhibition period or booking window never turns into a session on every date between its endpoints. Select a day to see its dated programmes and the separate longer periods.
The event and festival lists come from our existing saved programme sources. They are partial coverage, not everything happening in Lisbon. Check the organiser's session, language, age, access and ticket terms before you arrange the rest of the day. A dated programme is not evidence of a seat being available.
Sunrise and sunset here are calculated for the public city-centre reference point and the displayed date, in Lisbon time. They are rounded estimates, not a forecast of visible sunshine; hills, buildings and clouds change what you actually see.
Use the date with a reservation time and check the return journey for a late evening. A sunset estimate, an ordinary Metro operating window and a specific transport connection are different pieces of information.
If the weather or a booking changes, shorten the outdoor stretch rather than replacing it with three distant stops. A café, an indoor visit or a workshop from our guide can give the day a new shape without starting again from scratch.
Save the places you want to keep to My Lisbon on this device. For a ticketed activity, keep the confirmation and exact meeting point available before you leave. The monthly programme can change, so revisit the organiser's information close to the date.
No. It uses IPMA's 1991–2020 monthly climate normals. The average low, high and number of days with at least 1 mm of rain are seasonal context, not a prediction for individual travel dates.
Do not assume so. Calendar counts use explicit published dates. Longer programme periods are shown separately; use the organiser's own session or opening information before booking.
The calendar shows the next occurrence of May within the current twelve-month planning window. The displayed year applies to the announced events; the climate figures are historical monthly averages.
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