Climate averages 1991–2020
Azov weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Azov: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 12.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 03 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rostov-on-Don (25 km away). In May its highs average 21.6°C, about as warm as Azov, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Azov ranks joint 15th of 236 for the warmest May highs and joint 149th of 236 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 236 cities is 17.0°C; Azov is 4.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 25.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 57 mm to 47 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
Azov climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.1°C-4.7°C | -4.7°C | 48 | 9.5 | 9.09 h |
| February | 1.3°C-4.5°C | -4.5°C | 41 | 8.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 7.0°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 46 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 43 | 9.4 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.2°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 57 | 9.6 | 15.015 h |
| June | 25.8°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 47 | 8.8 | 15.816 h |
| July | 28.6°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 36 | 6.4 | 15.516 h |
| August | 28.5°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 31 | 5.2 | 14.214 h |
| September | 22.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 36 | 5.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 40 | 7.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 6.5°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 41 | 7.3 | 9.49 h |
| December | 1.6°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 48 | 9.0 | 8.69 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
- Rostov-on-Don in MayRussia · 25 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 12.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Bataysk in MayRussia · 26 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Taganrog in MayRussia · 41 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 14.5°C · 52 mm rain
- Novocherkassk in MayRussia · 62 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Novoshakhtinsk in MayRussia · 82 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 11.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Shakhty in MayRussia · 91 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Yeysk in MayRussia · 98 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 15.2°C · 48 mm rain
- Khrustalnyi in MayUkraine · 121 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 9.9°C · 58 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 Azov) is explained once on the Azov year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.