Climate averages 1991–2020
Rivne weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Rivne: daytime highs average 19.1°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 68 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 28 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lutsk (64 km away). In May its highs average 18.9°C, about as warm as Rivne, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Rivne ranks joint 49th of 59 for the warmest May highs and 50th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 20.2°C; Rivne is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 68 mm to 83 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
Rivne 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-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 36 | 9.0 | 8.59 h |
| February | 1.1°C-4.6°C | -4.6°C | 36 | 10.1 | 10.010 h |
| March | 6.2°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 44 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 48 | 10.5 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 19.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 68 | 12.7 | 15.515 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 83 | 13.5 | 16.416 h |
| July | 24.1°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 103 | 14.1 | 16.016 h |
| August | 23.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 69 | 10.3 | 14.515 h |
| September | 18.4°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 64 | 9.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 45 | 9.0 | 10.811 h |
| November | 5.8°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 42 | 9.5 | 9.09 h |
| December | 0.9°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 42 | 10.0 | 8.18 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
- Lutsk in MayUkraine · 64 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Ternopil in MayUkraine · 127 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Khmelnytskyi in MayUkraine · 144 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 9.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Pinsk in MayBelarus · 167 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Zhytomyr in MayUkraine · 177 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Lviv in MayUkraine · 180 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.5°C · 93 mm rain
- Berdychiv in MayUkraine · 185 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Kamyanets-Podilskyi in MayUkraine · 217 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 69 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 Rivne) is explained once on the Rivne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.