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May 15 · Actual
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- 38°
- Low
- 22°
- feels 20°
- Rain
- 0mm
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🌤️Properly hot and dry — sunscreen, water, shade.
Final recap — actual measured weather.
May 15 – May 17
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May 15 · Actual
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May 16 · Actual
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May 17 · Actual
I hope you all have caught up on sleep after an incredible weekend at Electric Daisy Carnival. Looking back, we really lucked out with the skies, though the temperature swings were quite the rollercoaster. Friday was a total scorcher, hitting a high of thirty-eight degrees, which was much hotter than the thirty-one degrees we usually expect this time of May. Saturday was the absolute standout day for comfort, but by Sunday, the desert really showed its teeth. Even though the thermometer said seventeen degrees that final night, the wind made it feel more like thirteen degrees, which was a huge shock to the system after the daytime heat. You definitely needed a heavy pashmina or a jacket to survive those sunrise sets without shivering. We stayed completely dry with zero mm of rain all weekend, but that meant the dust was flying. I hope you remembered to pack your saline spray and hydration packs, because that dry heat on Friday felt like standing in front of a hairdryer. It was much warmer than a typical Vegas May overall, transitioning from a heavy sunscreen day on Friday to a chilly, breezy wind-breaker night by the time the closing ceremony rolled around.
Updated Oct 13, 2026
Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas is the largest electronic music festival in North America, held over three nights at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Around 170,000 people a night experience a full sensory build-out of stages, art cars and rides — running from dusk until sunrise.
Mid-May in the Mojave Desert is hot and bone-dry: daytime highs of 30–34°C, nights still warm at 18–22°C, near-zero rainfall, and strong, gusty desert winds that can kick up dust storms across the speedway.
Because EDC runs overnight, the brutal daytime heat mostly affects the trip in and out — the festival itself is in much friendlier desert-night temperatures. The real weather story is wind: dust storms have delayed sets and grounded the rides in past years, and dehydration is a year-after-year risk even at night.