Climate averages 1991–2020
Ust-Kamenogorsk weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Ust-Kamenogorsk: daytime highs average 20.1°C and nights cool to about 6.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Semey (175 km away). In May its highs average 21.5°C, 1.4°C warmer than Ust-Kamenogorsk, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 26 cities listed in Kazakhstan, Ust-Kamenogorsk ranks 17th of 26 for the warmest May highs and 22nd of 26 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 26 cities is 21.7°C; Ust-Kamenogorsk is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.1°C to 25.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 mm to 49 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Ust-Kamenogorsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -9.2°C-18.3°C | -18.3°C | 32 | 8.1 | 8.69 h |
| February | -6.3°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 29 | 7.0 | 10.010 h |
| March | 0.7°C-10.5°C | -10.5°C | 36 | 8.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 48 | 8.7 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 20.1°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 52 | 8.4 | 15.415 h |
| June | 25.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 49 | 8.6 | 16.316 h |
| July | 26.7°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 65 | 11.1 | 15.916 h |
| August | 25.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 43 | 7.0 | 14.514 h |
| September | 19.4°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 37 | 6.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 10.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 50 | 8.8 | 10.811 h |
| November | 0.0°C-8.7°C | -8.7°C | 57 | 10.0 | 9.19 h |
| December | -6.9°C-15.6°C | -15.6°C | 46 | 10.5 | 8.28 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Semey in MayKazakhstan · 175 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 8.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Rubtsovsk in MayRussia · 198 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 7.5°C · 38 mm rain
- Biysk in MayRussia · 337 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 7.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Tacheng in MayChina · 360 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 33 mm rain
- Barnaul in MayRussia · 385 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 6.0°C · 50 mm rain
- Jinshanlu in MayChina · 468 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 5.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Pavlodar in MayKazakhstan · 469 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 28 mm rain
- Karamay in MayChina · 517 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 14.5°C · 15 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ust-Kamenogorsk) is explained once on the Ust-Kamenogorsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.