Climate averages 1991–2020
Melitopol weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th 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 Melitopol: daytime highs average 21.8°C and nights cool to about 12.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 44 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 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Berdyansk (108 km away). In May its highs average 19.6°C, 2.3°C cooler than Melitopol, with 36 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Melitopol ranks 2nd of 59 for the warmest May highs and joint 8th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Melitopol is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 44 mm to 45 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
Melitopol climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.5°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 32 | 7.7 | 9.09 h |
| February | 3.1°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 28 | 6.0 | 10.310 h |
| March | 8.2°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 35 | 8.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.3°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 39 | 7.6 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 44 | 8.5 | 15.015 h |
| June | 26.4°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 45 | 8.4 | 15.816 h |
| July | 29.4°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 35 | 6.2 | 15.515 h |
| August | 29.1°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 31 | 4.8 | 14.214 h |
| September | 22.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 33 | 5.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 28 | 5.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 32 | 6.2 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.0°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 35 | 6.9 | 8.69 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
- Berdyansk in MayUkraine · 108 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 36 mm rain
- Nikopol in MayUkraine · 110 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 12.9°C · 47 mm rain
- Zaporizhzhya in MayUkraine · 113 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 44 mm rain
- Mariupol in MayUkraine · 166 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 13.7°C · 41 mm rain
- Dnipro in MayUkraine · 182 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Kerch in MayUkraine · 186 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 14.8°C · 29 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in MayUkraine · 190 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.1°C · 55 mm rain
- Pavlohrad in MayUkraine · 191 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 52 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 Melitopol) is explained once on the Melitopol year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.