Your holiday weather, at a glance

Russia in May: where is it warmest?

In May, Astrakhan is the warmest place with 24 °C by day, Norilsk the coolest with −1 °C. 43 of 55 destinations have good holiday weather.

All destinations in May, warmest first

Long-term averages for the month: daytime high, sea, sunshine and rainy days.

Place	Score	Air	Sea	Sun	Rain days
Astrakhan	91	24°	–	8 h	6
Makhachkala	90	22°	15°	8 h	8
Volgograd	89	22°	–	8 h	7
Rostov-on-Don	89	22°	–	9 h	9
Grozny	83	22°	–	8 h	10
Krasnodar	81	22°	–	7 h	10
Orenburg	92	21°	–	10 h	8
Taganrog	91	20°	18°	9 h	8
Saratov	88	20°	–	8 h	8
Novorossiysk	87	20°	16°	9 h	9
Voronezh	87	20°	–	10 h	10
Tolyatti	90	19°	–	9 h	8
Samara	89	19°	–	8 h	8
Kursk	87	19°	–	9 h	10
Sochi	74	19°	17°	7 h	14
Derbent	31	19°	15°	8 h	7
Omsk	91	18°	–	10 h	8
Ulyanovsk	89	18°	–	9 h	9
Ufa	87	18°	–	9 h	10
Barnaul	87	18°	–	9 h	9
Kazan	86	18°	–	9 h	9
Chelyabinsk	86	18°	–	8 h	9
Kaliningrad	82	18°	–	9 h	11
Tula	79	18°	–	8 h	11
Khabarovsk	77	18°	–	7 h	11
Birobidzhan	74	18°	–	7 h	12
Vladikavkaz	71	18°	–	7 h	14
Ulan-Ude	89	17°	–	9 h	7
Irkutsk	85	17°	–	9 h	9
Nizhny Novgorod	83	17°	–	10 h	10
Novosibirsk	82	17°	–	9 h	9
Sovetsk	81	17°	–	9 h	11
Tyumen	78	17°	–	8 h	9
Moscow	76	17°	–	8 h	11
Smolensk	75	17°	–	8 h	12
Tver	71	17°	–	8 h	12
Pskov	74	16°	–	8 h	11
Yekaterinburg	72	16°	–	8 h	11
Krasnoyarsk	69	16°	–	8 h	11
Veliky Novgorod	69	16°	–	7 h	11
Perm	69	16°	–	8 h	11
Tomsk	67	15°	–	8 h	11
Saint Petersburg	66	14°	9°	8 h	10
Vyborg	30	14°	7°	8 h	9
Yakutsk	70	13°	–	9 h	7
Kronstadt	29	13°	9°	8 h	10
Arkhangelsk	51	12°	5°	8 h	11
Vladivostok	44	12°	8°	6 h	11
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	47	11°	–	7 h	10
Murmansk	23	8°	4°	7 h	13
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	28	5°	3°	6 h	10
Magadan	31	3°	1°	8 h	7
Anadyr	34	2°	−1°	8 h	5
Vorkuta	26	1°	–	6 h	11
Norilsk	34	−1°	–	9 h	11

Russia in May: where is it warmest?

The warmest places in May are Astrakhan (24 °C), Makhachkala (22 °C) and Volgograd (22 °C).

Russia in May: where is the sea warmest?

The sea is warmest at Taganrog (18 °C), Sochi (17 °C) and Novorossiysk (16 °C).

Russia in May: where is the weather best?

The best holiday weather in May – warm, sunny and dry – is in Orenburg, Astrakhan and Taganrog.

Climate averages 1996–2025, not a forecast. Data: Copernicus ERA5 / ERA5-Land via Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), NOAA OISST, WMO 1991–2020 (NOAA NCEI), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sources & licences