Essentuki in May 2025 – is it worth going to rest? Weather and reviews, air temperature, how to dress, prices for flights, in sanatoriums and hotels. How to do in Essentuki in early May and the end of spring, where to go, I found out Eurotraveler.
In the post -pandemic era, the resort city of Essentuki, which has been thoroughly forgotten in recent years, is an important component of the Caucasian mineral waters, can again be one of the popular vacation directions. In any case, for a couple of years, as it has been noted that the demand for direction is beating records – tourism.interfax.ru/ru/news/articles/96293/. And closer to the summer, experts completely predicted that sanatoriums and even hotels both in the city and in general in the region would be crowded.
So, by the way, it was last year – in the current trend promises to acquire even larger scale!
Is this not the reason to go on vacation to Essentuki in May? That is, even before most of the tourists wake up and in a hurry will go to heal to mineral springs?
We would say that it makes sense. Although today it is no longer necessary to count on significant discounts.
But a wide window of opportunities will open in front of you. Indeed, in addition to the restoration of strength and health, if not battered, then still strongly exhausted by the long and nervous winter, you can recharge with positive emotions. Since the number of interesting places near Essentuki is very large, and the abundance of interesting excursions and rounds in the Caucasus is simply amazing.
Want to know more? Then read the details!
Weather in Essentuki in May
Statistically does not give reasons for special optimism – a month is considered one of the most raw in the year. Although if you initially do not feed high expectations – that is, get acquainted with the weather forecast, then you are unlikely to remain disappointed.
Indeed, already in late April and early May, Essentuki is clearly felt-spring came. And you do not need to go to the sky cautiously, with anxiously, expecting that the snowball would fall from there. And the inhabitants of the largest Russian megacities: St. Petersburg and even Moscow for the Day of Labor and the surrounding dates often experience such emotions!
However, it is also not worth counting on summer warmth in May in Essentuki – in any case, in the first decade of the month. During the first days, the air temperature is capable of walking in a wide range. And one day in the afternoon, there can be +15 and even +20 degrees Celsius, and on the other-street thermometers with a noticeable voltage will show only +10 ° C at night temperatures are completely lowered into the range of +4-8 ° C.
In the middle of the month, in extreme cases, at the start of the third decades in weather moods, some fracture occurs. The average air temperature grows: during the day it can be from +12 to +20 ° C, and at night-not lower than +8-10 ° C.
At the end of May, the weather in Essentuki is clearly rebuilt in a summer way. And each new day forecasts regularly promise that by noon it will be from +20 to even +25 ° C.
At the same time, you should remember that at the end of spring the night is cool here. And after sunset, even on the threshold of summer, temperatures are reduced to +10-14 ° C.
Now about rains – all guidebooks admit that in May they go in Essentuki often. Moreover, they can call them spillful. But lasting – hardly.
So in general you have a good chance to get wet, going out without a raincoat and an umbrella. But do not get bored – starting quickly, spring showers here are also quickly and end!
Rains and humidity
The average monthly precipitation rate varies between 160-170 mm. The number of inconspicuous days in May is from 12 to 14. Moreover, the end of the month the weather forecast increasingly promises clear, or cloudy, but not rainy days.
Humidity in the first half of May reaches 80-90%, then it decreases. But, which is wonderful, not even the most healthy (“on paper”) humidity does not particularly affect the sensations of people demanding on this meteorological indicator. And in each literally review you can read how clean and fresh the local air is, and how easily it breathes here!
- Prices for daily rent of apartments in Essentuki
How to dress
What do they go to Essentuki in early May? You will be amazed, but in almost the same thing as in Moscow. That is, in fairly thorough jackets and cloaks. Sometimes even dressing them and sweaters with sweaters.
Since the resort is in the lowland, and not on the hills, in the evening hours a tangible coolness descends on it. In addition, you are unlikely to have a chance to warm up, scrubbing the local Terrencom – unlike the Kislovodsk and Zheleznovodski, they have practically no height difference.
Waterproof and impassable windbreaks are an indispensable thing in the suitcase of those tourists who do not think of their vacation without an active component. And to go to Dombai, to go to the Elbrusier in May, to go somewhere from the Essentuki more than enough.
Will swimwear or fins, other beach accessories, which are usually taken on vacation in late spring and summer? Only if you are going to visit the baths. That is, almost certainly – why go to Essentuki, if you have no intention of engaging in hydrotherapy?!
Prices 2025
The cost of tickets for the flight of a budgetary airline from Moscow to mineral water and back starts from 22-24 thousand rubles per person. Moreover, this amount includes not only the transportation of the resort himself, but also the movement of his baggage weighing up to 20 kg.
Prices for tickets to city sanatoriums begin with 42-45 thousand rubles for two people. So much costs a 7-day vacation without treatment, but with a full boarding house in the most modest of the local sanatoriums. The inclusion in the check of health procedures will increase by about 20%.
The number in a good guest house or mini-hotel in Essentuki can be rented in May for a modest 2.5-3 thousand rubles for two. In this case, you will have to take care of nutrition and therapeutic procedures on your own.
Separate laudatory reviews deserves the number and quality of excursions both in the city itself and – especially throughout the region. And their cost in many cases cannot be called excessively high.
For example, a jeep tour from Essentukov to Upper Balkaria on Lake Gizhgit will cost 4,500 rubles per person. And on the plateau of Bermamyt, a company of 4 people will be taken for 15-20 thousand.
What to do
There are few own entertainment in Essentuki to the offensive. Because of what, some of its residents in the reviews call the resort “the city from which I want to leave to another city.”
Well, what’s the problem – we will ask? After all, electric trains depart from the local station, which in 17 minutes reach Pyatigorsk! And 25 – to Kislovodsk.
And both in the first, and – especially – the second city will find something to do. Even if we take into account that in Kislovodsk and in Pyatigorsk in May no less damp than in essentuki actually.
In good weather, we recommend that you get to you (only minibus No. 117a) to a little north of Zheleznovodsk. A walk in the resort park of which will give you a reason to rejoice at your own physical readiness. And along the way, it will give exclusively positive impressions – it is not for nothing that Zheleznovodsk is called the greenest place in the entire region.
To other attractions of Caucasian mineral waters, it is better to ride with excursions. Unless, of course, you have not come here to rest in your own car.
In particular, we recommend that you look at the Jila-Su gorge, visit the Polyana of Narzanov, see the Chegem waterfalls. And, if the weather forecast promises 1-2 clear days, take an expedition to Dombai.
Which at the end of spring is often shrouded in fogs and seems to swim in atmospheric moisture. But at the same time it looks extremely mysterious and bewitching.
If you wish, you can diversify wellness leisure in the Essentuki themselves. For example, walking in a local resort park or examining the halls of the pompous building of the Semashko mud.
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