Climate averages 1991–2020
Kropyvnytskyi weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th 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 Kropyvnytskyi: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th 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 Oleksandriya (65 km away). In May its highs average 21.1°C, about as warm as Kropyvnytskyi, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Kropyvnytskyi ranks joint 11th of 59 for the warmest May highs and joint 21st of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Kropyvnytskyi is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 53 mm to 68 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
Kropyvnytskyi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.5°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 35 | 7.6 | 8.89 h |
| February | 1.3°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 29 | 6.8 | 10.210 h |
| March | 6.8°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 40 | 8.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 39 | 8.2 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 53 | 10.1 | 15.215 h |
| June | 24.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 68 | 10.8 | 16.016 h |
| July | 27.0°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 58 | 9.4 | 15.716 h |
| August | 26.7°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 42 | 6.8 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.7°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 47 | 7.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.4°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 39 | 6.6 | 10.911 h |
| November | 5.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 36 | 6.2 | 9.39 h |
| December | 1.1°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 34 | 6.8 | 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
- Oleksandriya in MayUkraine · 65 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 10.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Kremenchuk in MayUkraine · 104 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Cherkasy in MayUkraine · 105 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 11.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in MayUkraine · 107 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.1°C · 55 mm rain
- Uman in MayUkraine · 153 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.6°C · 55 mm rain
- Mykolayiv in MayUkraine · 172 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 11.7°C · 44 mm rain
- Kamyanske in MayUkraine · 172 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Nikopol in MayUkraine · 189 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 12.9°C · 47 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 Kropyvnytskyi) is explained once on the Kropyvnytskyi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.