Climate averages 1991–2020
Niš weather
in May.
A warm, 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 warm month in Niš: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 40 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leskovac (36 km away). In May its highs average 21.9°C, about as warm as Niš, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Serbia, Niš ranks 7th of 13 for the warmest May highs and 1st of 13 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 13 cities is 22.1°C; Niš is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 55 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Niš climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 43 | 9.3 | 9.49 h |
| February | 7.2°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 40 | 8.4 | 10.510 h |
| March | 12.1°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 55 | 10.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 61 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 22.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 62 | 10.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 26.4°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 55 | 9.5 | 15.315 h |
| July | 28.8°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 42 | 8.1 | 15.115 h |
| August | 29.3°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 32 | 6.3 | 14.014 h |
| September | 24.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 36 | 6.2 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.1°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 43 | 6.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 11.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 42 | 7.6 | 9.710 h |
| December | 5.7°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 50 | 9.4 | 9.09 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Leskovac in MaySerbia · 36 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 10.9°C · 70 mm rain
- Kruševac in MaySerbia · 54 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 11.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Pristina in MayKosovo · 94 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.2°C · 76 mm rain
- Mitrovicë in MayKosovo · 97 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Kraljevo in MaySerbia · 108 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 10.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Kragujevac in MaySerbia · 111 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Novi Pazar in MaySerbia · 115 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Pernik in MayBulgaria · 122 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 8.9°C · 52 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 Niš) is explained once on the Niš year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.