Climate averages 1991–2020
Yelets weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Yelets: daytime highs average 19.4°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 44 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lipetsk (70 km away). In May its highs average 19.3°C, about as warm as Yelets, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yelets ranks 48th of 236 for the warmest May highs and joint 106th of 236 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 236 cities is 17.0°C; Yelets is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 23.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 58 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
Yelets climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4.3°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 39 | 9.4 | 8.28 h |
| February | -3.9°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 35 | 8.4 | 9.810 h |
| March | 1.9°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 35 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 44 | 9.1 | 13.914 h |
| May, selected | 19.4°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 52 | 10.2 | 15.716 h |
| June | 23.0°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 58 | 11.2 | 16.817 h |
| July | 25.2°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 64 | 11.5 | 16.316 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 49 | 8.4 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 50 | 8.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 10.3°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 52 | 9.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 2.3°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 39 | 7.7 | 8.89 h |
| December | -2.4°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 39 | 9.1 | 7.78 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
- Lipetsk in MayRussia · 70 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Voronezh in MayRussia · 115 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 9.7°C · 49 mm rain
- Michurinsk in MayRussia · 137 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.1°C · 53 mm rain
- Staryy Oskol in MayRussia · 153 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 9.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Novomoskovsk in MayRussia · 156 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Gubkin in MayRussia · 162 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 9.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Orël in MayRussia · 168 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 8.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Tula in MayRussia · 186 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.2°C · 53 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 Yelets) is explained once on the Yelets year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.