Blagoevgrad weather in May

In May, Blagoevgrad sees average daytime highs of 20°C and overnight lows near 9°C, with 64 mm of precipitation across 10.1 wet days and about 14.3 hours of daylight. It is the 5th-warmest and 3rd-wettest month of the year here.

Highs climb over the month, from about 19°C in the first days to 22°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 36% of the time in May, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 13 h 48 min at the start of May to 14 h 48 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Blagoevgrad's 6th-clearest and 5th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Blagoevgrad's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 20°; 5th warmest
Overnight low: 9°; 8th coldest
Precipitation: 64 mm; 10.1 wet days
Daylight: 14 h 24 min; 5:13 AM – 7:35 PM
Cloud cover: 54%; 6th clearest
Wind: 6 km/h; 5th windiest
Solar energy: 5.77 kWh/m²
Travel score: 6.4; out of 10

Blagoevgrad is city in Blagoevgrad municipality, Blagoevgrad oblast, Bulgaria.

Air quality: Good; PM10 30 µg/m³ · 2019
Density: 2,346/km²; people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

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Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs climb over the month, from about 19°C in the first days to 22°C by the end.

A typical May day in Blagoevgrad reaches about 20°C in the afternoon and slips back to 9°C overnight — a 11°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 15°C and 25°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 5°C warmer than April and about 4°C cooler than June.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	18	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	22	22	22	22
Avg low (°C)	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	7
2	19	8
3	19	8
4	19	8
5	19	8
6	19	8
7	19	8
8	19	8
9	20	9
10	20	9
11	20	9
12	20	9
13	20	9
14	20	9
15	20	9
16	20	9
17	20	10
18	21	10
19	21	10
20	21	10
21	21	10
22	21	10
23	21	10
24	21	10
25	21	10
26	21	10
27	21	11
28	22	11
29	22	11
30	22	11
31	22	11

How May really feels in Blagoevgrad

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

May sits comfortably in between — no days that feel dangerously hot or drop to a hard freeze once humidity and wind are folded in.

Blagoevgrad weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 5th-warmest and 3rd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Snow days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	5° / -3°	49	8	5.1	9.3	0.0
Feb	7° / -2°	48	7.9	4.4	10.3	0.9
Mar	11° / 1°	64	9.9	3.6	11.7	2.8
Apr	16° / 5°	66	10.3	0.9	13.1	4.8
May	20° / 9°	64	10.1	0.1	14.3	6.4
Jun	24° / 13°	42	7.8	0	15	7.5
Jul	27° / 15°	31	5.8	0	14.7	7.7
Aug	27° / 15°	26	4.1	0	13.7	7.9
Sep	23° / 11°	36	5.7	0	12.3	7.8
Oct	17° / 7°	52	6.4	0.4	10.9	6.1
Nov	11° / 2°	50	7.2	1.6	9.6	3.0
Dec	6° / -2°	63	9.3	4.5	9	0.4

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 36% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 22% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 42%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	56	56	56	56	56	57	57	57	56	56	56	56	56	57	57	58	58	58	59	60	61	62	62	63
Cloudier (%)	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	44	44	44	44	44	43	43	43	44	44	44	44	44	43	43	42	42	42	41	40	39	38	38	37

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	57	43
2	57	43
3	57	43
4	57	43
5	57	43
6	57	43
7	57	43
8	56	44
9	56	44
10	56	44
11	56	44
12	56	44
13	57	43
14	57	43
15	57	43
16	56	44
17	56	44
18	56	44
19	56	44
20	56	44
21	57	43
22	57	43
23	58	42
24	58	42
25	58	42
26	59	41
27	60	40
28	61	39
29	62	38
30	62	38
31	63	37

Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Blagoevgrad gets around 64 mm of rain and snow over 10.1 wet days in May. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable precipitation averages around 33% and peaks near 34% on the wettest days, and about 0 day brings snow.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	31	32	32	32	32	32	32	33	33	33	33	33	33	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	33	33	33	32	32	32	32	31	31

	Rain chance (%)
1	31
2	32
3	32
4	32
5	32
6	32
7	32
8	33
9	33
10	33
11	33
12	33
13	33
14	34
15	34
16	34
17	34
18	34
19	34
20	34
21	34
22	34
23	33
24	33
25	33
26	32
27	32
28	32
29	32
30	31
31	31

Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of May feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, May lands in the dry band about 98% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Dry (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	99	99	99	99	99	99	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	97	97	97	97	97	97	96	96	95	94	93	92
Comfortable (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	6	7	8

	Dry (%)	Comfortable (%)
1	100	0
2	100	0
3	100	0
4	100	0
5	100	0
6	100	0
7	99	1
8	99	1
9	99	1
10	99	1
11	99	1
12	99	1
13	98	2
14	98	2
15	98	2
16	98	2
17	98	2
18	98	2
19	98	2
20	97	3
21	97	3
22	97	3
23	97	3
24	97	3
25	97	3
26	96	4
27	96	4
28	95	5
29	94	6
30	93	7
31	92	8

Wind in May

Winds average 6 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 6 km/h on the calmest days to 6 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Feels	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm

	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	6	calm
2	6	calm
3	6	calm
4	6	calm
5	6	calm
6	6	calm
7	6	calm
8	6	calm
9	6	calm
10	6	calm
11	6	calm
12	6	calm
13	6	calm
14	6	calm
15	6	calm
16	6	calm
17	6	calm
18	6	calm
19	6	calm
20	6	calm
21	6	calm
22	6	calm
23	6	calm
24	6	calm
25	6	calm
26	6	calm
27	6	calm
28	6	calm
29	6	calm
30	6	calm
31	6	calm

Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 13 h 48 min at the start of May to 14 h 48 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 60 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 5:31 AM to 5:01 AM, and sunset from 7:19 PM to 7:49 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	13.8	13.8	13.9	13.9	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.1	14.1	14.2	14.2	14.2	14.3	14.3	14.3	14.4	14.4	14.4	14.5	14.5	14.5	14.6	14.6	14.6	14.6	14.7	14.7	14.7	14.8	14.8	14.8
Sunrise (AM)	5:31	5:30	5:28	5:27	5:26	5:24	5:23	5:22	5:21	5:19	5:18	5:17	5:16	5:15	5:14	5:13	5:12	5:11	5:10	5:09	5:08	5:07	5:06	5:06	5:05	5:04	5:03	5:03	5:02	5:02	5:01
Sunset (PM)	7:19	7:20	7:21	7:22	7:23	7:24	7:25	7:26	7:28	7:29	7:30	7:31	7:32	7:33	7:34	7:35	7:36	7:37	7:38	7:39	7:40	7:41	7:42	7:43	7:44	7:45	7:46	7:47	7:47	7:48	7:49

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	13.8	5:31	7:19
2	13.8	5:30	7:20
3	13.9	5:28	7:21
4	13.9	5:27	7:22
5	14.0	5:26	7:23
6	14.0	5:24	7:24
7	14.0	5:23	7:25
8	14.1	5:22	7:26
9	14.1	5:21	7:28
10	14.2	5:19	7:29
11	14.2	5:18	7:30
12	14.2	5:17	7:31
13	14.3	5:16	7:32
14	14.3	5:15	7:33
15	14.3	5:14	7:34
16	14.4	5:13	7:35
17	14.4	5:12	7:36
18	14.4	5:11	7:37
19	14.5	5:10	7:38
20	14.5	5:09	7:39
21	14.5	5:08	7:40
22	14.6	5:07	7:41
23	14.6	5:06	7:42
24	14.6	5:06	7:43
25	14.6	5:05	7:44
26	14.7	5:04	7:45
27	14.7	5:03	7:46
28	14.7	5:03	7:47
29	14.8	5:02	7:47
30	14.8	5:02	7:48
31	14.8	5:01	7:49

Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 5.77 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 1.69 kWh/m² to a high of 6.44 kWh/m² in July across the year — May's 5.77 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	6.0	6.0	6.0	6.0
Level	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Intense	Intense	Intense

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	5.5	Bright
2	5.6	Bright
3	5.6	Bright
4	5.6	Bright
5	5.6	Bright
6	5.6	Bright
7	5.7	Bright
8	5.7	Bright
9	5.7	Bright
10	5.7	Bright
11	5.7	Bright
12	5.7	Bright
13	5.7	Bright
14	5.7	Bright
15	5.8	Bright
16	5.8	Bright
17	5.8	Bright
18	5.8	Bright
19	5.8	Bright
20	5.8	Bright
21	5.8	Bright
22	5.8	Bright
23	5.8	Bright
24	5.9	Bright
25	5.9	Bright
26	5.9	Bright
27	5.9	Bright
28	6.0	Bright
29	6.0	Intense
30	6.0	Intense
31	6.0	Intense

Planning a trip in May

Is May a good time to visit Blagoevgrad?

Our two travel scores rate May for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

6.4

Sightseeing

5th-best month of the year

3.5

Beach & pool

5th-best month of the year

May is a reasonable time to visit Blagoevgrad for sightseeing.

What to pack for Blagoevgrad in May

From May's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In May, Blagoevgrad sees daytime highs around 20°C and nights near 9°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 10 days see rain.

rain gearsun protection

UV index in Blagoevgrad in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 7 — enough to warrant sun protection. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Blagoevgrad peaks around June 23 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	2	3	4	8	7	9	9	9	6	4	2	1
Level	Low	Moderate	Moderate	Very high	Very high	Very high	Very high	Very high	High	Moderate	Moderate	Low

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	2	Low
Feb	3	Moderate
Mar	4	Moderate
Apr	8	Very high
May	7	Very high
Jun	9	Very high
Jul	9	Very high
Aug	9	Very high
Sep	6	High
Oct	4	Moderate
Nov	2	Moderate
Dec	1	Low

Location & terrain

Where is Blagoevgrad?

Blagoevgrad sits at 42.0°N, 23.1°E, 408 m above sea level, in Bulgaria. The nearest listed city is Delcevo, 28 km away.

Topography around Blagoevgrad

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Blagoevgrad.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Blagoevgrad has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 420 m around an average of 450 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,973 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,836 m.

The land around Blagoevgrad is covered by trees (30%), grassland (26%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 3 km, trees (54%) and grassland (33%) within 16 km, and trees (65%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km

420 m

trees 30%

16 km

1,973 m

trees 54%

80 km

2,836 m

trees 65%

treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces

← April Blagoevgrad year-round climate June →Best places to visit in May

May weather nearby: Delcevo 28 km · Dupnitsa 28 km · Bansko 38 km · Kyustendil 45 km · Vinica 51 km · Sandanski 52 km · Samokov 52 km · Kochani 58 km

Bulgaria travel facts

Travel advisory: Level 1; Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs: Type C / F; 230 V · 50 Hz
Prices: ≈ 23% of US; price level, 2025
GDP per capita: $20,328; 2025
Happiness: 5.7 / 10; World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water: 96%; of population, 2024
Homicide rate: 1.1; per 100k, 2023
Road deaths: 9.2; per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group: High; World Bank
English: High; EF EPI 594
Religion

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Blagoevgrad (42.0146°, 23.098°, elevation 408 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	7
2	19	8
3	19	8
4	19	8
5	19	8
6	19	8
7	19	8
8	19	8
9	20	9
10	20	9
11	20	9
12	20	9
13	20	9
14	20	9
15	20	9
16	20	9
17	20	10
18	21	10
19	21	10
20	21	10
21	21	10
22	21	10
23	21	10
24	21	10
25	21	10
26	21	10
27	21	11
28	22	11
29	22	11
30	22	11
31	22	11

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	57	43
2	57	43
3	57	43
4	57	43
5	57	43
6	57	43
7	57	43
8	56	44
9	56	44
10	56	44
11	56	44
12	56	44
13	57	43
14	57	43
15	57	43
16	56	44
17	56	44
18	56	44
19	56	44
20	56	44
21	57	43
22	57	43
23	58	42
24	58	42
25	58	42
26	59	41
27	60	40
28	61	39
29	62	38
30	62	38
31	63	37

	Rain chance (%)
1	31
2	32
3	32
4	32
5	32
6	32
7	32
8	33
9	33
10	33
11	33
12	33
13	33
14	34
15	34
16	34
17	34
18	34
19	34
20	34
21	34
22	34
23	33
24	33
25	33
26	32
27	32
28	32
29	32
30	31
31	31

	Dry (%)	Comfortable (%)
1	100	0
2	100	0
3	100	0
4	100	0
5	100	0
6	100	0
7	99	1
8	99	1
9	99	1
10	99	1
11	99	1
12	99	1
13	98	2
14	98	2
15	98	2
16	98	2
17	98	2
18	98	2
19	98	2
20	97	3
21	97	3
22	97	3
23	97	3
24	97	3
25	97	3
26	96	4
27	96	4
28	95	5
29	94	6
30	93	7
31	92	8

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	7
2	19	8
3	19	8
4	19	8
5	19	8
6	19	8
7	19	8
8	19	8
9	20	9
10	20	9
11	20	9
12	20	9
13	20	9
14	20	9
15	20	9
16	20	9
17	20	10
18	21	10
19	21	10
20	21	10
21	21	10
22	21	10
23	21	10
24	21	10
25	21	10
26	21	10
27	21	11
28	22	11
29	22	11
30	22	11
31	22	11

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	57	43
2	57	43
3	57	43
4	57	43
5	57	43
6	57	43
7	57	43
8	56	44
9	56	44
10	56	44
11	56	44
12	56	44
13	57	43
14	57	43
15	57	43
16	56	44
17	56	44
18	56	44
19	56	44
20	56	44
21	57	43
22	57	43
23	58	42
24	58	42
25	58	42
26	59	41
27	60	40
28	61	39
29	62	38
30	62	38
31	63	37

	Rain chance (%)
1	31
2	32
3	32
4	32
5	32
6	32
7	32
8	33
9	33
10	33
11	33
12	33
13	33
14	34
15	34
16	34
17	34
18	34
19	34
20	34
21	34
22	34
23	33
24	33
25	33
26	32
27	32
28	32
29	32
30	31
31	31

	Dry (%)	Comfortable (%)
1	100	0
2	100	0
3	100	0
4	100	0
5	100	0
6	100	0
7	99	1
8	99	1
9	99	1
10	99	1
11	99	1
12	99	1
13	98	2
14	98	2
15	98	2
16	98	2
17	98	2
18	98	2
19	98	2
20	97	3
21	97	3
22	97	3
23	97	3
24	97	3
25	97	3
26	96	4
27	96	4
28	95	5
29	94	6
30	93	7
31	92	8

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	7
2	19	8
3	19	8
4	19	8
5	19	8
6	19	8
7	19	8
8	19	8
9	20	9
10	20	9
11	20	9
12	20	9
13	20	9
14	20	9
15	20	9
16	20	9
17	20	10
18	21	10
19	21	10
20	21	10
21	21	10
22	21	10
23	21	10
24	21	10
25	21	10
26	21	10
27	21	11
28	22	11
29	22	11
30	22	11
31	22	11

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	57	43
2	57	43
3	57	43
4	57	43
5	57	43
6	57	43
7	57	43
8	56	44
9	56	44
10	56	44
11	56	44
12	56	44
13	57	43
14	57	43
15	57	43
16	56	44
17	56	44
18	56	44
19	56	44
20	56	44
21	57	43
22	57	43
23	58	42
24	58	42
25	58	42
26	59	41
27	60	40
28	61	39
29	62	38
30	62	38
31	63	37

	Rain chance (%)
1	31
2	32
3	32
4	32
5	32
6	32
7	32
8	33
9	33
10	33
11	33
12	33
13	33
14	34
15	34
16	34
17	34
18	34
19	34
20	34
21	34
22	34
23	33
24	33
25	33
26	32
27	32
28	32
29	32
30	31
31	31

	Dry (%)	Comfortable (%)
1	100	0
2	100	0
3	100	0
4	100	0
5	100	0
6	100	0
7	99	1
8	99	1
9	99	1
10	99	1
11	99	1
12	99	1
13	98	2
14	98	2
15	98	2
16	98	2
17	98	2
18	98	2
19	98	2
20	97	3
21	97	3
22	97	3
23	97	3
24	97	3
25	97	3
26	96	4
27	96	4
28	95	5
29	94	6
30	93	7
31	92	8