Baikal in May 2025 – is it worth going to rest? Weather and reviews, air and water temperature, is it possible to swim, how to dress, prices for flights and hotels. What to look at Baikal in early May and the end of spring than to do, I found out EUROTRAVELER.
Not a season yet … For those who are in the course, this short phrase personifies many meanings. And he serves as a kind of leadership to action-if you have time to go somewhere even before something is overflowing with crowds of tourists-consider it very lucky!
Take, for example, May in Lake Baikal. A warm month, because this is the end of spring – but alas, not there. Therefore, it is very good, promising from the point of view of a tourist trip.
Of course, in the future everything can change very much. But so far, very few people come to see the deepest and still pure lake of the planet in late spring. Not stormy on its shores, but very inspiring!
Again, if you know, in Lake Baikal and in the summer you are not particularly bought, only on the smallest reaches and on the hottest days its water warms up well if up to +18 ° C. So, in principle, it is worth going here exclusively for panoramas and impressions.
The former, of course, do not disappear anywhere all year round, and the latter, apparently, will be especially bright on the breaking of the seasons. So having arrived at Baikal in early May or even at its end, you will see both ice and flame.
You will witness how spring step by step comes to this world, breaking the ice shackles. And, importantly, pay not all the money of the world for this). Yes, that there, the cost of some three -day tours in 2025 does not exceed 40 thousand rubles!
However, in order!
Weather on Baikal in May
It is often called cool, and, in principle, rightly. Moreover, throughout the month-even on the threshold of summer, the air temperature on the southern coast of the lake, in Listvyanka, only by noon reluctantly rises to +10-12 ° C.
In early May, Baikal can be chained in the ice, and in the middle of the month, traveling around the KBD, you will see extensive ice fields in some places. Open water is almost certainly too, but the fact remains – at this time of the year, you can only admire the lake without making contacts of contact.
At the same time, however, in almost any year, air temperatures in May in the south of Lake Baikal live in plus territory. It is not worth waiting for stability-it can be either +1 or +11-13 ° C-but also freezes almost exclusively at night.
And even as if not seriously -after sunset, thermometers show up to -2-4 ° C.
I must say that most travelers are unlikely to be impressed with these facts, since without winter clothes you are still quickly and guaranteed to freeze. But in any case, he explains why ice fields are melting in Baikal during May, and you can find flowering meadows.
The winds at this time of the year are frankly cold. And we are unlikely to error against the truth, if we call them icy.
Precipitation and the sun
The last month of spring in Lake Baikal is not considered especially rainy (no more than 5-6 days), but you can’t call it unconditionally solar. So, from the middle is half. Get ready for trips under a cloudy sky and rejoice if you see a lake under sunlight.
Of course, a meeting in life in Lake Baikal will become a separate happy and memorable episode in life. Those who at least once in their lives watched the sun settled behind the mountains against the backdrop of the shaman, that they seemed to be dedicated to some ancient sacrament.
Is it any wonder that every first traveler in the recall mentions the “special energy” of the place. And if he does not swear to return to Baikal in the end of spring, he definitely expects that he will be here more than once.
On May 1, the sun rises above Baikal at about half -past half in the morning, and comes in – at 20.30. The duration of the daylight hours reaches 15 hours, which allows you to build and put into practice even complex and long -term excursion routes without fears.
On the threshold of summer, the sun rises without fifteen five, and sits at 15 minutes in the evening. Increasing the day to 16.5 hours!
It is worth knowing
We hope that the previous paragraph was able to convince you that going to Randev with Baikal in May, you need to thoroughly fill the suitcase with warm things. Because the views are, but they are still more pleasant to admire them with frozen limbs.
So we are in no hurry to clean winter jackets and even down jackets in the cabinet, we take knitted sweaters and sweaters, thermal underwear, vests, gloves, scarves and hats. Naturally, warm shoes on a relief sole and with water -repellent properties – it will be very useful during any trip to Olkhon Island. And, in principle, for hiking near the lake!
Do not forget that May is the time when ticks wake up and activate. And these hazardous bloodsuckers in the perobaikal forests live a great many.
The reviews are strongly advised to carefully treat the clothes with anticlone sprays before the trip. In order for the parasite, even if it reaches the open area of the skin, he did not have time to suck.
Examine your clothes, skin, hair after each exit to nature. It is worthwhile to expose a particularly careful inspection of the dog if you went on a trip with it – it can easily bring ticks to the wool.
Prices 2025
We were not told that Baikal is an expensive place. That is why it is so important to choose the right time to visit, and then rejoice at significant economy.
Since, for example, in Listvyanka, in early May you can book a room for two or even a whole apartment for only 4-6 thousand rubles per day. A similar level of prices can hardly be called high – in Kazan, for example, for similar money for May holidays, you will stop at a modest hotel on the outskirts.
Those who like to walk a lot, we will advise you to settle in the center of the village. And a little away, almost in the forest.
A tourist who decided to stay in Irkutsk will be able to noticeably win in the sense of money, but will clearly complicate the actual process of acquaintance with Lake Baikal. Since he will have to overcome about 60 km of distance in one side every day.
Flights from Moscow to Irkutsk and vice versa are sane (if you take into account the distance) of money: a passenger with mild luggage will pay about 30-35 thousand rubles for direct flights. You can get to the bus station of the Siberian city both by taxi and minibus.
The two-day tour of Olkhon, excluding the cost of living, costs from 25-30 thousand rubles per person. Acquaintance with Listvyanka and the KBD, visiting the museum in Taltsy and the rise to the stone of Chernsky will cost 15-20 thousand for a company of up to 4 people.
What to do
In principle, you probably know. And someone perhaps already managed to read reviews, worked as a route and, reading our article, only models the details.
One way or another, but in Baikal, in May, at any other time of the year, you must definitely visit Olkhon Island and get to the village of Khuzhir, near which there is a sacred shaman for the Buryat of the shaman. In the presence of (financial), it will be worthless to ride along the island on a boat on a water pillow – a similar journey among ice (very likely) will make you feel almost a polar explorer and discoverer.
The landmark attractions of Baikal belongs to the stone of the Chernysky near Listvyanka, from where impressive species open. In the village, it is worth visiting the limnological museum – at least in order to see in the near endemic Baikal seals.
It is rare that a traveler will miss the opportunity to travel by train along the Krugobaikal Railway (CBD). Since the panoramas, opening from the window, are undoubtedly alone to come here.
And, on the contrary, few people manage to personally see the lorser of the seal in the ears. The archipelago north of Olkhon, which is not so easy to reach.
The architectural and ethnographic museum of Taltsy 40 km from Irkutsk is sufficiently original, where original samples of Siberian houses are collected in the open. Although if you have already seen something similar, for example: in Vitoslavls under Veliky Novgorod or in kizhi, then you are unlikely to be very impressed.
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