Climate averages 1991–2020
Yekaterinburg 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 Yekaterinburg: daytime highs average 15.7°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 16 h 26 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pervouralsk (41 km away). In May its highs average 15.4°C, about as warm as Yekaterinburg, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yekaterinburg ranks 183rd 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; Yekaterinburg is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.7°C to 20.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 74 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
Yekaterinburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.3°C-16.9°C | -16.9°C | 16 | 4.7 | 7.58 h |
| February | -9.2°C-15.6°C | -15.6°C | 14 | 4.4 | 9.49 h |
| March | -1.5°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 25 | 6.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 7.6°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 35 | 7.5 | 14.214 h |
| May, selected | 15.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 57 | 10.5 | 16.416 h |
| June | 20.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 74 | 13.2 | 17.718 h |
| July | 22.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 85 | 12.9 | 17.217 h |
| August | 19.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 72 | 12.8 | 15.215 h |
| September | 13.4°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 51 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 5.5°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 42 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| November | -4.0°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 28 | 7.7 | 8.28 h |
| December | -9.5°C-14.8°C | -14.8°C | 20 | 5.9 | 6.97 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
- Pervouralsk in MayRussia · 41 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 60 mm rain
- Asbest in MayRussia · 54 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 5.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Novoural’sk in MayRussia · 54 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 5.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in MayRussia · 95 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 6.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Ozersk in MayRussia · 123 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Nizhny Tagil in MayRussia · 124 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 5.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Chelyabinsk in MayRussia · 195 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 7.1°C · 48 mm rain
- Zlatoust in MayRussia · 197 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 5.3°C · 59 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 Yekaterinburg) is explained once on the Yekaterinburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.