Your holiday weather, at a glance

Ukraine in May: where is it warmest?

In May, Mykolaiv is the warmest place with 22 °C by day, Sevastopol the coolest with 18 °C. 19 of 22 destinations have good holiday weather.

All destinations in May, warmest first

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

PlaceScoreAirSeaSunRain days
Mykolaiv9022°16°9 h9
Bakhmut8822°–9 h9
Kryvyi Rih8622°–9 h10
Kherson5222°15°9 h8
Odesa9321°15°10 h7
Mariupol9121°17°10 h8
Luhansk9021°–9 h9
Dnipro8821°–9 h9
Zaporizhzhia8821°–9 h9
Donetsk8721°–9 h10
Kharkiv8621°–9 h10
Uman8521°–9 h10
Kyiv8520°–9 h10
Vinnytsia8320°–8 h11
Uzhhorod8220°–9 h12
Chernivtsi8020°–8 h11
Feodosiia3920°15°8 h6
Zhytomyr8319°–8 h11
Ivano-Frankivsk7419°–8 h14
Lviv7319°–8 h15
Yalta3119°15°8 h8
Sevastopol8818°15°8 h8

Ukraine in May: quick answers

Ukraine in May: where is it warmest?

The warmest places in May are Mykolaiv (22 °C), Bakhmut (22 °C) and Kryvyi Rih (22 °C).

Ukraine in May: where is the sea warmest?

The sea is warmest at Mariupol (17 °C), Mykolaiv (16 °C) and Kherson (15 °C).

Ukraine in May: where is the weather best?

The best holiday weather in May – warm, sunny and dry – is in Odesa, Mariupol and Mykolaiv.

Ukraine month by month

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