Climate averages 1991–2020
Nitra weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Nitra: daytime highs average 20.6°C and nights cool to about 10.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 11 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bratislava (75 km away). In May its highs average 20.4°C, about as warm as Nitra, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Slovakia, Nitra ranks 1st of 6 for the warmest May highs and 1st of 6 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 6 cities is 19.4°C; Nitra is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 24.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 67 mm to 71 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
Nitra climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.7°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 39 | 8.1 | 8.89 h |
| February | 5.4°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 34 | 8.2 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.2°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 40 | 8.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.1°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 41 | 7.9 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 20.6°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 67 | 10.6 | 15.215 h |
| June | 24.3°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 71 | 10.6 | 16.016 h |
| July | 26.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 72 | 10.5 | 15.716 h |
| August | 26.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 62 | 8.8 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.0°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 60 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.1°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 49 | 8.5 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.9°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 49 | 9.1 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.5°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 43 | 8.4 | 8.48 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
- Bratislava in MaySlovakia · 75 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 10.6°C · 68 mm rain
- Győr in MayHungary · 77 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Banská Bystrica in MaySlovakia · 92 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Zlín in MayCzechia · 107 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.4°C · 81 mm rain
- Žilina in MaySlovakia · 113 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.6°C · 98 mm rain
- Budapest in MayHungary · 115 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.4°C · 67 mm rain
- Székesfehérvár in MayHungary · 127 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Vienna in MayAustria · 127 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 10.3°C · 72 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 Nitra) is explained once on the Nitra year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.