Climate averages 1991–2020
Kyzyl 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 Kyzyl: daytime highs average 19.2°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Minusinsk (288 km away). In May its highs average 18.2°C, 1.0°C cooler than Kyzyl, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Kyzyl ranks joint 54th of 236 for the warmest May highs and 4th of 236 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 236 cities is 17.0°C; Kyzyl is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 25.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 29 mm to 45 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
Kyzyl climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -16.1°C-25.0°C | -25.0°C | 2.5 | 0.8 | 8.48 h |
| February | -9.3°C-21.2°C | -21.2°C | 3.2 | 1.2 | 9.910 h |
| March | 0.4°C-12.6°C | -12.6°C | 6.4 | 2.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.1°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 16 | 5.1 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 19.2°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 29 | 8.8 | 15.616 h |
| June | 25.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 45 | 10.3 | 16.617 h |
| July | 27.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 68 | 12.2 | 16.216 h |
| August | 24.3°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 50 | 10.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.3°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 33 | 7.6 | 12.713 h |
| October | 7.7°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 16 | 5.1 | 10.711 h |
| November | -4.6°C-12.6°C | -12.6°C | 11 | 3.6 | 8.99 h |
| December | -14.3°C-22.0°C | -22.0°C | 6.5 | 2.2 | 7.98 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
- Minusinsk in MayRussia · 288 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 5.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Abakan in MayRussia · 301 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 38 mm rain
- Chernogorsk in MayRussia · 316 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 5.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Mezhdurechensk in MayRussia · 482 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 94 mm rain
- Zelenogorsk in MayRussia · 489 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 3.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Krasnoyarsk in MayRussia · 491 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Kansk in MayRussia · 506 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 46 mm rain
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in MayRussia · 508 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 3.7°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 Kyzyl) is explained once on the Kyzyl year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.