Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaporizhzhya 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 Zaporizhzhya: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 11.8°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 08 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nikopol (63 km away). In May its highs average 21.1°C, about as warm as Zaporizhzhya, with 47 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya ranks joint 7th 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; Zaporizhzhya is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 25.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 44 mm to 47 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
Zaporizhzhya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 37 | 8.4 | 8.99 h |
| February | 1.3°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 31 | 6.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 7.1°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 40 | 8.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.8°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 39 | 6.9 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 44 | 8.6 | 15.115 h |
| June | 25.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 47 | 8.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 28.0°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 35 | 6.4 | 15.616 h |
| August | 27.8°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 30 | 4.8 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 42 | 6.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.1°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 34 | 6.0 | 10.911 h |
| November | 6.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 38 | 6.6 | 9.39 h |
| December | 1.5°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 39 | 7.6 | 8.58 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
- Nikopol in MayUkraine · 63 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 12.9°C · 47 mm rain
- Dnipro in MayUkraine · 69 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Kamyanske in MayUkraine · 83 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 11.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Samar in MayUkraine · 87 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Pavlohrad in MayUkraine · 94 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Melitopol in MayUkraine · 113 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 12.0°C · 44 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in MayUkraine · 129 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.1°C · 55 mm rain
- Oleksandriya in MayUkraine · 174 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 10.9°C · 55 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 Zaporizhzhya) is explained once on the Zaporizhzhya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.