Climate averages 1991–2020
Novi Pazar weather
in May.
A mild, 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 Novi Pazar: daytime highs average 20.2°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 39 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mitrovicë (40 km away). In May its highs average 20.6°C, about as warm as Novi Pazar, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Serbia, Novi Pazar ranks 13th of 13 for the warmest May highs and 13th of 13 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 13 cities is 22.1°C; Novi Pazar is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 24.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 96 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
Novi Pazar climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C-3.7°C | -3.7°C | 53 | 10.6 | 9.49 h |
| February | 6.5°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 55 | 10.8 | 10.510 h |
| March | 10.5°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 75 | 12.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.6°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 85 | 14.8 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 20.2°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 103 | 16.3 | 14.615 h |
| June | 24.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 96 | 15.6 | 15.315 h |
| July | 26.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 81 | 12.8 | 15.015 h |
| August | 27.0°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 66 | 11.6 | 13.914 h |
| September | 21.9°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 69 | 10.7 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.0°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 59 | 9.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 11.1°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 57 | 9.4 | 9.810 h |
| December | 5.6°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 66 | 10.8 | 9.19 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
- Mitrovicë in MayKosovo · 40 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Kraljevo in MaySerbia · 67 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 10.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Pristina in MayKosovo · 74 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.2°C · 76 mm rain
- Kruševac in MaySerbia · 83 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 11.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Gjakovë in MayKosovo · 84 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.6°C · 75 mm rain
- Čačak in MaySerbia · 85 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 10.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Suva Reka in MayKosovo · 90 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 11.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Kragujevac in MaySerbia · 103 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 85 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 Novi Pazar) is explained once on the Novi Pazar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.