Climate averages 1991–2020
Dnipro weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Dnipro: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 12 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samar (24 km away). In May its highs average 21.4°C, about as warm as Dnipro, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Dnipro ranks joint 7th of 59 for the warmest May highs and joint 12th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Dnipro is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 25.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 50 mm to 54 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
Dnipro climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.8°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 37 | 8.3 | 8.89 h |
| February | 0.6°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 31 | 6.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 6.6°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 41 | 9.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 43 | 8.1 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 50 | 9.1 | 15.215 h |
| June | 25.3°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 54 | 9.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 27.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 45 | 8.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 27.3°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 37 | 5.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 46 | 6.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.6°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 36 | 6.8 | 10.911 h |
| November | 5.8°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 36 | 6.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 0.9°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 37 | 7.8 | 8.48 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
- Samar in MayUkraine · 24 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Kamyanske in MayUkraine · 33 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Pavlohrad in MayUkraine · 61 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Zaporizhzhya in MayUkraine · 69 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 44 mm rain
- Nikopol in MayUkraine · 111 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 12.9°C · 47 mm rain
- Poltava in MayUkraine · 130 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 10.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Kremenchuk in MayUkraine · 137 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in MayUkraine · 137 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.1°C · 55 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 Dnipro) is explained once on the Dnipro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.