Climate averages 1991–2020
Khmelnytskyi weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Khmelnytskyi: daytime highs average 19.0°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kamyanets-Podilskyi (87 km away). In May its highs average 20.1°C, 1.1°C warmer than Khmelnytskyi, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi ranks 51st of 59 for the warmest May highs and 47th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Khmelnytskyi is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 65 mm to 86 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
Khmelnytskyi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.0°C-5.8°C | -5.8°C | 32 | 8.2 | 8.79 h |
| February | 0.8°C-5.1°C | -5.1°C | 34 | 8.9 | 10.110 h |
| March | 5.8°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 41 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.2°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 50 | 10.9 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 19.0°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 65 | 11.8 | 15.315 h |
| June | 22.3°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 86 | 13.2 | 16.216 h |
| July | 24.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 98 | 13.7 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.6°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 63 | 9.4 | 14.414 h |
| September | 18.2°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 65 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 11.8°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 45 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 5.3°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 40 | 8.6 | 9.29 h |
| December | 0.3°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 35 | 9.2 | 8.38 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
- Kamyanets-Podilskyi in MayUkraine · 87 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Ternopil in MayUkraine · 101 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Vinnytsya in MayUkraine · 110 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 9.9°C · 62 mm rain
- Berdychiv in MayUkraine · 127 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Rivne in MayUkraine · 144 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Chernivtsi in MayUkraine · 147 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 9.6°C · 70 mm rain
- Zhytomyr in MayUkraine · 154 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Ivano-Frankivsk in MayUkraine · 174 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.0°C · 84 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 Khmelnytskyi) is explained once on the Khmelnytskyi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.