Climate averages 1991–2020

Lviv weather
in May.

A mild, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 18.4°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 9.5°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 93 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a mild month in Lviv: daytime highs average 18.4°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 22 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Drohobych (65 km away). In May its highs average 18.0°C, about as warm as Lviv, with 109 mm of rain.

Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Lviv ranks 57th of 59 for the warmest May highs and 57th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Lviv is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 21.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 93 mm to 94 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Lviv climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lviv, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	-0.1°C-5.1°C	-5.1°C	39	9.9	8.69 h
February	1.5°C-4.4°C	-4.4°C	43	10.8	10.110 h
March	6.6°C-1.1°C	-1.1°C	49	11.2	11.812 h
April	13.5°C4.2°C	4.2°C	55	11.9	13.714 h
May, selected	18.4°C9.5°C	9.5°C	93	14.9	15.415 h
June	21.7°C13.2°C	13.2°C	94	14.7	16.316 h
July	23.4°C15.2°C	15.2°C	112	15.2	15.916 h
August	23.2°C14.8°C	14.8°C	81	11.8	14.514 h
September	18.1°C10.6°C	10.6°C	72	10.4	12.713 h
October	12.5°C5.9°C	5.9°C	56	9.6	10.811 h
November	6.5°C1.4°C	1.4°C	47	10.2	9.19 h
December	1.3°C-3.2°C	-3.2°C	46	10.9	8.28 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

Distance from Lviv

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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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lviv) is explained once on the Lviv year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.