Climate averages 1991–2020
Minusinsk weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet 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 Minusinsk: daytime highs average 18.2°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet 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 Abakan (19 km away). In May its highs average 18.5°C, about as warm as Minusinsk, with 38 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Minusinsk ranks joint 76th of 236 for the warmest May highs and joint 40th of 236 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 236 cities is 17.0°C; Minusinsk is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 24.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 43 mm to 55 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
Minusinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.6°C-21.2°C | -21.2°C | 8.1 | 2.8 | 8.18 h |
| February | -8.9°C-18.4°C | -18.4°C | 8.5 | 2.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 0.8°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 13 | 3.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.0°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 27 | 7.9 | 14.014 h |
| May, selected | 18.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 43 | 10.3 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.4°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 55 | 10.7 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.1°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 63 | 11.0 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 71 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.3°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 54 | 10.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.6°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 34 | 8.9 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.6°C-8.8°C | -8.8°C | 23 | 6.9 | 8.79 h |
| December | -10.8°C-17.7°C | -17.7°C | 16 | 5.4 | 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
- Abakan in MayRussia · 19 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 38 mm rain
- Chernogorsk in MayRussia · 30 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 5.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Mezhdurechensk in MayRussia · 240 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 94 mm rain
- Krasnoyarsk in MayRussia · 271 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Kyzyl in MayRussia · 288 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 29 mm rain
- Achinsk in MayRussia · 296 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 3.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Novokuznetsk in MayRussia · 301 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 5.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in MayRussia · 306 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 Minusinsk) is explained once on the Minusinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.