Climate averages 1991–2020
Arad weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Arad: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 11.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 57 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Timişoara (48 km away). In May its highs average 22.3°C, about as warm as Arad, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Arad ranks joint 7th of 27 for the warmest May highs and joint 9th of 27 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 27 cities is 20.8°C; Arad is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 25.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 78 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Arad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C-2.5°C | -2.5°C | 39 | 8.3 | 9.19 h |
| February | 6.3°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 41 | 8.7 | 10.310 h |
| March | 11.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 47 | 9.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.2°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 58 | 10.2 | 13.514 h |
| May, selected | 22.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 69 | 11.7 | 14.915 h |
| June | 25.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 78 | 11.4 | 15.716 h |
| July | 27.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 65 | 9.5 | 15.415 h |
| August | 27.8°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 58 | 7.6 | 14.214 h |
| September | 22.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 58 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 50 | 8.0 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.6°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 51 | 8.5 | 9.59 h |
| December | 4.6°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 50 | 9.3 | 8.79 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
- Timişoara in MayRomania · 48 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Szeged in MayHungary · 90 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 11.9°C · 57 mm rain
- Oradea in MayRomania · 106 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Reşiţa in MayRomania · 108 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 10.1°C · 104 mm rain
- Zrenjanin in MaySerbia · 115 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 12.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Subotica in MaySerbia · 127 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 11.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Szolnok in MayHungary · 140 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Kecskemét in MayHungary · 148 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 11.5°C · 62 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 Arad) is explained once on the Arad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.