Climate averages 1991–2020

Nyíregyháza weather
in May.

A mild, moderately wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 21.7°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 11.5°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 70 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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May is a mild month in Nyíregyháza: daytime highs average 21.7°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 08 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Debrecen (48 km away). In May its highs average 21.8°C, about as warm as Nyíregyháza, with 66 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in Hungary, Nyíregyháza ranks 5th of 11 for the warmest May highs and joint 9th of 11 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 11 cities is 21.5°C; Nyíregyháza is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 mm to 73 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Nyíregyháza climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Nyíregyháza, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 2.1°C-3.4°C-3.4°C337.88.99 h
February 4.7°C-2.7°C-2.7°C398.210.210 h
March 10.2°C1.0°C1.0°C388.511.912 h
April 16.7°C6.3°C6.3°C488.813.614 h
May, selected 21.7°C11.5°C11.5°C7011.115.115 h
June 25.2°C15.5°C15.5°C7311.516.016 h
July 27.1°C17.4°C17.4°C7911.415.616 h
August 27.2°C17.2°C17.2°C558.614.314 h
September 21.7°C12.5°C12.5°C578.412.613 h
October 15.5°C7.4°C7.4°C528.310.911 h
November 8.9°C2.6°C2.6°C478.79.39 h
December 3.0°C-2.1°C-2.1°C469.18.58 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

May in nearby cities

Distance from Nyíregyháza

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Nyíregyháza) is explained once on the Nyíregyháza year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.