Climate averages 1991–2020
Volgodonsk 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 Volgodonsk: daytime highs average 21.5°C and nights cool to about 12.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 05 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shakhty (147 km away). In May its highs average 21.3°C, about as warm as Volgodonsk, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Volgodonsk ranks joint 10th 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; Volgodonsk is 4.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 48 mm to 36 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
Volgodonsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.9°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 40 | 9.1 | 8.99 h |
| February | 0.4°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 33 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 41 | 9.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 33 | 7.2 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 48 | 8.5 | 15.115 h |
| June | 26.7°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 36 | 7.3 | 15.916 h |
| July | 29.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 34 | 6.3 | 15.616 h |
| August | 28.8°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 25 | 4.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 22.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 33 | 5.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.3°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 41 | 7.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 5.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 37 | 7.4 | 9.49 h |
| December | 0.8°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 43 | 8.8 | 8.59 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
- Shakhty in MayRussia · 147 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Novocherkassk in MayRussia · 155 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in MayRussia · 167 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Novoshakhtinsk in MayRussia · 169 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 11.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Bataysk in MayRussia · 185 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Rostov-on-Don in MayRussia · 187 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 12.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Elista in MayRussia · 208 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 12.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Azov in MayRussia · 211 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.8°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 Volgodonsk) is explained once on the Volgodonsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.