Climate averages 1991–2020
Chelyabinsk weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Chelyabinsk: daytime highs average 17.7°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 08 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kopeysk (13 km away). In May its highs average 17.7°C, about as warm as Chelyabinsk, with 46 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Chelyabinsk ranks joint 97th of 236 for the warmest May highs and joint 68th of 236 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 236 cities is 17.0°C; Chelyabinsk is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 48 mm to 57 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
Chelyabinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.2°C-17.2°C | -17.2°C | 17 | 5.4 | 7.88 h |
| February | -9.1°C-15.8°C | -15.8°C | 15 | 4.9 | 9.610 h |
| March | -1.4°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 24 | 5.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 30 | 7.0 | 14.114 h |
| May, selected | 17.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.116 h |
| June | 22.3°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 57 | 10.9 | 17.317 h |
| July | 23.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 76 | 11.6 | 16.817 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 71 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 15.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 43 | 8.5 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 38 | 9.4 | 10.511 h |
| November | -2.9°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 25 | 6.6 | 8.58 h |
| December | -9.2°C-15.2°C | -15.2°C | 21 | 6.0 | 7.37 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
- Kopeysk in MayRussia · 13 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 7.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Ozersk in MayRussia · 80 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Miass in MayRussia · 85 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 5.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Zlatoust in MayRussia · 113 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 5.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Troitsk in MayRussia · 119 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 7.6°C · 42 mm rain
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in MayRussia · 142 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 6.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Shadrinsk in MayRussia · 173 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 48 mm rain
- Yekaterinburg in MayRussia · 195 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 5.4°C · 57 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 Chelyabinsk) is explained once on the Chelyabinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.