May is an unincorporated community in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States, located 39 miles (63 km) south of Salmon near the Pahsimeroi River.

[2] May was named by the wife of Rudolph Wright, who established a post office there in 1897.

[3] Highway traffic through the area supported a small number of businesses on the main street, but these were later bypassed and sit unused today.

Patterson Elementary School, located to the southeast, serves the community.

May Airport, an unattended turf airstrip northeast of the town, has been active since 1950.