Climate averages 1991–2020
Abakan weather
in May.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Abakan: daytime highs average 18.5°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 38 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 54 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chernogorsk (15 km away). In May its highs average 18.2°C, about as warm as Abakan, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Abakan ranks joint 70th of 236 for the warmest May highs and joint 20th of 236 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 236 cities is 17.0°C; Abakan is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 38 mm to 50 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
Abakan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.4°C-20.4°C | -20.4°C | 6.5 | 2.5 | 8.18 h |
| February | -8.8°C-17.8°C | -17.8°C | 7.1 | 2.5 | 9.710 h |
| March | 1.2°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 11 | 3.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.4°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 23 | 6.8 | 14.014 h |
| May, selected | 18.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 38 | 9.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 50 | 9.9 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.2°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 57 | 10.6 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 64 | 11.3 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 49 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.7°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 30 | 7.8 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.4°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 19 | 5.6 | 8.79 h |
| December | -10.7°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 13 | 4.5 | 7.58 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
- Chernogorsk in MayRussia · 15 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 5.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Minusinsk in MayRussia · 19 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 5.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Mezhdurechensk in MayRussia · 221 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 94 mm rain
- Krasnoyarsk in MayRussia · 276 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Novokuznetsk in MayRussia · 282 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 5.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Achinsk in MayRussia · 290 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 3.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Kyzyl in MayRussia · 301 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 29 mm rain
- Prokop’yevsk in MayRussia · 310 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 5.3°C · 54 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 Abakan) is explained once on the Abakan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.