Climate averages 1991–2020

Piatra Neamţ weather
in May.

A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 18.4°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 8.1°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 90 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Piatra Neamţ · average highYear overview

May is a mild month in Piatra Neamţ: daytime highs average 18.4°C and nights cool to about 8.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 01 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bacău (59 km away). In May its highs average 20.8°C, 2.4°C warmer than Piatra Neamţ, with 64 mm of rain.

Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Piatra Neamţ ranks 27th of 27 for the warmest May highs and joint 22nd of 27 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 27 cities is 20.8°C; Piatra Neamţ is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 21.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 116 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 precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

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

Every month, side by side

Piatra Neamţ climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Piatra Neamţ, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 0.7°C-7.6°C-7.6°C296.89.09 h
February 2.6°C-6.5°C-6.5°C307.010.310 h
March 6.9°C-2.6°C-2.6°C5111.211.912 h
April 13.1°C2.5°C2.5°C6912.413.614 h
May, selected 18.4°C8.1°C8.1°C9014.515.015 h
June 21.9°C12.2°C12.2°C11615.815.816 h
July 23.6°C13.9°C13.9°C11514.815.515 h
August 23.3°C13.8°C13.8°C8512.314.214 h
September 18.6°C9.3°C9.3°C649.712.613 h
October 13.1°C4.3°C4.3°C527.910.911 h
November 7.2°C-0.6°C-0.6°C356.69.49 h
December 1.9°C-5.5°C-5.5°C377.58.69 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

Distance from Piatra Neamţ

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 Piatra Neamţ) is explained once on the Piatra Neamţ year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.