Climate averages 1991–2020
Gatchina 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 Gatchina: daytime highs average 15.0°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 17 h 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pushkin (21 km away). In May its highs average 15.1°C, about as warm as Gatchina, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Gatchina ranks 203rd 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; Gatchina is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 19.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 81 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
Gatchina climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.9°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 37 | 10.3 | 6.97 h |
| February | -3.7°C-8.8°C | -8.8°C | 30 | 8.5 | 9.19 h |
| March | 1.0°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 35 | 9.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.5°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 42 | 10.1 | 14.514 h |
| May, selected | 15.0°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 57 | 10.8 | 17.017 h |
| June | 19.1°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 81 | 13.2 | 18.619 h |
| July | 21.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 80 | 12.8 | 17.918 h |
| August | 19.9°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 82 | 12.6 | 15.616 h |
| September | 14.5°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 52 | 11.4 | 12.913 h |
| October | 7.3°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 55 | 11.9 | 10.210 h |
| November | 1.4°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 50 | 11.1 | 7.78 h |
| December | -1.9°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 44 | 11.5 | 6.26 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
- Pushkin in MayRussia · 21 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Kolpino in MayRussia · 32 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 6.0°C · 58 mm rain
- Peterhof in MayRussia · 36 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.4°C · 48 mm rain
- Saint Petersburg in MayRussia · 42 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 50 mm rain
- Velikiy Novgorod in MayRussia · 134 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 63 mm rain
- Vyborg in MayRussia · 147 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 5.7°C · 45 mm rain
- Lappeenranta in MayFinland · 196 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 5.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Pskov in MayRussia · 221 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.7°C · 60 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 Gatchina) is explained once on the Gatchina year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.