Climate averages 1991–2020
Donetsk weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the joint 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 Donetsk: daytime highs average 20.6°C and nights cool to about 10.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 09 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Makiyivka (10 km away). In May its highs average 20.5°C, about as warm as Donetsk, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Donetsk ranks joint 19th of 59 for the warmest May highs and joint 36th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Donetsk is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 58 mm to 63 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
Donetsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.3°C-6.4°C | -6.4°C | 40 | 8.8 | 8.99 h |
| February | 0.1°C-6.3°C | -6.3°C | 36 | 7.3 | 10.210 h |
| March | 5.8°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 42 | 9.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.0°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 45 | 9.6 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 20.6°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 58 | 10.2 | 15.115 h |
| June | 24.9°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 63 | 10.6 | 16.016 h |
| July | 27.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 48 | 8.3 | 15.616 h |
| August | 27.1°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 33 | 6.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 41 | 6.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.1°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 39 | 6.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 5.0°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 37 | 7.1 | 9.39 h |
| December | 0.1°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 42 | 8.6 | 8.58 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
- Makiyivka in MayUkraine · 10 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 10.5°C · 56 mm rain
- Horlivka in MayUkraine · 35 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Yenakiyeve in MayUkraine · 38 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Shakhtarsk in MayUkraine · 47 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 10.4°C · 57 mm rain
- Bakhmut in MayUkraine · 65 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 10.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Kramatorsk in MayUkraine · 81 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.1°C · 52 mm rain
- Khrustalnyi in MayUkraine · 84 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 9.9°C · 58 mm rain
- Kadiyivka in MayUkraine · 87 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.5°C · 54 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 Donetsk) is explained once on the Donetsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.