Climate averages 1991–2020
Tarnów weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Tarnów: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th 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 Nowy Sącz (48 km away). In May its highs average 18.2°C, 0.5°C cooler than Tarnów, with 106 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in Poland, Tarnów ranks joint 9th of 60 for the warmest May highs and 56th of 60 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 60 cities is 18.1°C; Tarnów is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 21.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 86 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
Tarnów climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.0°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 46 | 11.1 | 8.69 h |
| February | 2.9°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 45 | 10.6 | 10.010 h |
| March | 7.7°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 50 | 11.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.0°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 60 | 11.2 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.7°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 89 | 14.1 | 15.415 h |
| June | 21.9°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 86 | 12.9 | 16.316 h |
| July | 23.9°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 104 | 14.3 | 15.916 h |
| August | 23.9°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 70 | 11.3 | 14.514 h |
| September | 18.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 73 | 11.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.2°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 59 | 10.1 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.3°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 48 | 10.3 | 9.19 h |
| December | 2.3°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 44 | 10.6 | 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
- Nowy Sącz in MayPoland · 48 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 8.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Rzeszów in MayPoland · 72 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.5°C · 92 mm rain
- Kraków in MayPoland · 75 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 90 mm rain
- Kielce in MayPoland · 99 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in MayPoland · 106 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Prešov in MaySlovakia · 114 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 9.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Jaworzno in MayPoland · 124 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.6°C · 82 mm rain
- Mysłowice in MayPoland · 132 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 82 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 Tarnów) is explained once on the Tarnów year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.