Moscow in May 2025 – is it worth going to rest? Weather and reviews, air temperature, how to dress, prices in hotels and excursions. What to do and what to see in Moscow for May holidays? Where to go with children and go in the vicinity?
And also: how to get to the parade on May 9 in Moscow, go along with the Immortal Regiment, where is the salute better from? About all this – in the material of Eurotraveler.
Moscow is the largest metropolis in Europe and the main city of Russia. In this capacity, it is certainly interesting for tourists. According to statistics, the Third Rome is visited by literally every first foreigner who arrives in the European part of Russia. It is natural that domestic travelers reach here.
The desire to visit the city during the All -Russian holidays is especially pronounced. But if in the New Year Moscow is crowded with its own residents and visitors, then on May holidays it is thoroughly empty.
After all, Muscovites themselves use the moment and are serving either on suburban “phasends” – to take a breath. Or on a weekend trip near Moscow. In order to accumulate strength for the final work jerk in front of the summer vacation!
Thus, they act not only wisely, but also give nonresident tourists a great chance to find out how beautiful Moscow is in May. A month, maybe not the warmest in – this climatic belt – but unequivocally complete energy, freshness, hopes! Bright and memorable!
Weather in Moscow in May
Usually great for walking around the city and bathing in fountains inspection of suburban attractions. At the same time, it is not worth counting on that it will necessarily be sunny and warm – it all depends on the year.
Sometimes the air temperature in Moscow at the beginning of May freely walks in the range of +6-16 degrees Celsius. At night, it can completely fall to +2-4 ° C, frosts also happen.
There are years that on May 9 in Moscow-not warmer +5-7 ° C. In other, on the contrary, at the start of the month the atmosphere will not even warm up to +20, but to +22-24 ° C.
There are also a lot of sunny days, which is also noteworthy – they have one more clear than the other. That is, so warm, completely summer weather is installed that I do not want to leave the streets even in the late evening.
It is still not worth counting that this will happen during your visit. Since traditionally Moscow weather behaves more modestly: up to the third decade no more than +18-20 ° C in the daytime, and +5-10 ° C after sunset.
A warm jacket in a suitcase to a tourist, therefore, will not hurt. And a hat or cap plus light gloves are sometimes quite appropriate
Closer to the end of May, Moscow in most cases observes non -alternatively warm weather. In the daytime, the atmosphere warms up to +22-28 ° C, at night the air temperature reluctantly crawls below +15 ° C.
Precipitation
The probability of precipitation is moderate, the peak of rains usually falls on the second half of the month. When long -term periods of warm or even hot weather are strayed with stormy spring showers.
Incorrect days occur at the beginning of the month. And in general, the average monthly rainfall in Moscow can not be called low – up to 70 mm. So if you take waterproof jackets and windbreaks with hoods, rainwashes or shoes that are not terrible puddles on the trip, you will find yourself in a winning position in comparison with those who showed frivolity.
Or do not find yourself. As mentioned above – sometimes Moscow weather in early May is not like rainy – even forgets to frown!
Parade May 9
In order to see a military parade on the occasion of Victory Day and take part in May in the procession of the Immortal Regiment, hundreds of thousands of people come to Moscow annually. In terms of its scale and the number of participants, the procession has no analogues in the world.
The day of memory of those who died in an unprecedented war, unity of the people stood in incredible conditions. Reminders All living that this should not be repeated…
You can get to Red Square during the parade only on special invitation tickets. But it will turn out to see the latest samples of military equipment, taking a place near the route of its following. For example, on the Leningradskoye Shosse and the Prospekt of the same name, Tverskaya Street, Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Novy Arbat.
In 2020, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory Day, the event was especially large-scale. In the evening, the sky was planned to flourish an incredibly colorful salute.
Which – by the way – is usually best seen from the Zaryadye Park, from the Kremlin and Moskvoretskaya embankment, the Sparrow mountains
But in 2020 it did not grow together – the coronavirus epidemic prevented. In the traditional format, the procession did not take place in 2021 … Starting from 2022, the military parade is again held, and the “Immortal Regiment” is again held along the streets of Moscow on May 9.
Anyone can join the procession. The memory column will be held along Tverskaya Street, the willing row, Manezhnaya and Red Squares in the afternoon. The approximate start of the procession is 15.00.
Prices 2025
In general, they are low – in any case, they are largely inferior to the same in much less tourist Kazan, for example. We will not speak throughout Moscow, of course – hotels on Tverskaya Street and nearby take very decent amounts for living.
If you stop at a certain distance from the historical center, you will get an apartment or a hotel room for quite acceptable 4-6 thousand per day. Moreover, in the case of renting an apartment, for this money it is allowed to live a whole family (company) up to 4-5 people.
By our own experience, we recommend that you look at apartments near Stanzif Partizanskaya and Pervomaiskaya metro in Izmailovo. What area is not too far from the historical center of Moscow – from the “partisan” to the “Revolution Square” you will get in 20 minutes. You will purchase the Troika card at the metro box office (be sure to do this so as not to overpay for travel!) And go.
An additional bonus of living in Izmailovo is a huge green park in neighborhood. As well as a pretty replica of the Terem Kremlin Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who once held his suburban residence here. Interesting master classes that will interest the child work inside today.
There will be something to do and adults – on weekends in the territory of the Izmailovsky Kremlin, the largest flea market in Moscow works. Where just a lot of really interesting old things, paintings, books, interior items are sold …
We also cannot call excursions in Moscow with expensive pleasure. Since a walk with a guide in the old center will turn out for a modest amount from 800 to 1,200 rubles. Bus overview walks in the Russian capital are more expensive – usually from 1,500 thousand – but also quite a pocket to any social layers.
What to do
What kind of sights of Moscow should you see what in May, what is in any other month of the year, even a preschooler knows for certain. Red Square, the Kremlin with cathedrals, the weapons chamber, the diamond fund and the famous paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery – such is the “gentleman's set” of any tourist who wants to see all the “most importantly”.
Due to the constant growing flow of those who want to join the beautiful, it will not be possible to inspect the majority of the places indicated above in the crowd. In addition, Red Square in early May is often closed – there are constantly rehearsals to the parade on Victory Day.
Therefore, we will advise you not to focus on “mandatory attractions”. And try to open old Moscow – the one that our ancestors loved so much.
Of course, to see the Kremlin and make your own idea of the Arbat, for example, you need to come and not see these places? But then you may well move away from the common template.
And take a walk along the streets near the Kremlin and GUM, explore China-Gorod, see merchant houses and aristocratic mansions with history. To plunge with your head into the past, which has passed forever.
As for other interesting attractions of the capital, you can read about them in our material routes of unusual excursions in Moscow. The secrets of the Stalinist skyscrapers and the secrets of the “House on the Embankment”, the Bulgakov places of the capital, the mystical places of the city and the surviving architectural masterpieces of imperial times – all this can be discovered independently or together with the guide.
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Museums and panoramas
Choose the time to visit Pushkin’s Mlime – in May you will probably walk around the halls not shoulder to shoulder with Chinese comrades. It is small, but a constant collection in the building of the art of Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries is very good. Temporary exhibitions are usually extremely interesting.
You will be in the capital with children, go to the new Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Val – there may be an interesting exhibition there. Dedicated to some Russian artists. Vasnetsov, Vrubel, Polenov, modern painters – it is possible that it is here that your child will wake up a craving for a beautiful?!
Excellent entertainment for children will be a trip to the Moscow Zoo. He is located on Krasnaya Presnya and is large enough. And the administration makes serious efforts so that the animals live in a comfortable environment. How much is possible in the heart of a huge metropolis.
To understand the scale, try to look at the capital with a look. Moreover, in order to understand how it was before and how it has become now, do it from different angles. From the natural heights of the sparrow mountains, and artificial-from the Ostankino TV tower or the observation deck in the Moscow City on the tower of the Federation.
Where to go
The hit parade of the sights of Moscow Region usually opens the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve. The original church of the Ascension of the Lord and the St. George bell tower, examples of the wooden architecture of the pre -Petrine still era, the recreated palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich attract visitors.
Complex tickets for all expositions are not so expensive. You can take a walk along the reconstructed palace and with an excursion – for some, however, money.
The palace and park ensemble of Tsaritsyno, the Moscow residence of Empress Catherine the Great, deserves attention. Although it is located not in the “Square”, but in the area of East Biryulyovo. Accordingly, it will be possible to get to the metro: we reach the Orekhovo station and walk for 5 minutes.
Tickets are expensive. But usually this does not bother enthusiasts in nature.
Another museum reserve of the palace, which should be examined near Moscow, is the Arkhangelsk estate. The former summer residence of the famous Yusupovs retained the external decor and internal interiors – the latter, however, are still at restoration and are not available.
But the beautiful parks in French and English styles are still captivated by the estate. Which are some trips to this place near Moscow.
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