Murmansk in May 2025 – Is it worth it? Weather and reviews, air temperature, how to dress, prices for flights, in hotels, on excursions. What to see in Murmansk in early May and the end of spring, where to go on the Kola Peninsula, in addition to Teriberka and Kirovsk, in the Eurotraveler review.
To be honest, May can hardly be recognized as the best month to visit Murmansk. As in the point of view of the weather: unstable and constantly fluctuating between the plus and minus. And affordable entertainment for tourists – they are becoming a little less even in comparison with winter.
For example, as reviews say, in May in Murmansk you are unlikely to see the northern lights. Perhaps you will be able to make out his flashes in the almost never blackening sky, but you are unlikely to be very impressed.
The ski season is also approaching the end. And if in early May in Kirovsk it is still possible to ski and snowboards on the slopes of the Bolshaya Woodyavr resort complex, then in the middle and end of the month, constant thaws and the grown air temperature persistently hint that it is time to complete the winter season.
However, most tourists go to the Arctic without obeying the voice of the mind, but “choosing by heart”
After all, it is known that this edge is how harsh is so beautiful. And even through the veil of rain and snow, a veil of fogs, you can make out its originality.
By the way, you will have plenty of opportunities for this. Since a polar day comes on the Kola Peninsula and in Murmansk at the end of May. And during this period, the sun of 2 months simply does not fall beyond the horizon.
While, for example, in St. Petersburg in May, white nights only enter their best phase. And still, from ink-black, they turn only into lilac ones.
Weather in Murmansk in May
It does not too confident, but still a step towards summer. The tourist can shake his head in bewilderment, trying to make out the arrival of the warm season in the promised weather forecasters +2-6 ° C, but the Murmansk resident knows that progress in comparison with April is actually great.
Yes, indeed, the air temperature in Murmansk in early May fluctuates in the range from +1 to +6-7 degrees Celsius. And at night, albeit short -term, but raids in the minus territory (up to -3-5 ° C). Which, of course, does not contribute to the massive melting of snow and the stormy flowering of nature.
Closer to May 9, Murmansk sees the weak rise of weather “moods”-by noon the atmosphere can begin to warm up to +7-9 ° C. By the middle of the month, finally a very expected moment comes – street thermometers show more than +10 ° C for the first time since September.
Sometimes doing it almost in a jump. For the air temperature during the day immediately and without the transition rises to +15-18 ° C. What degrees, as you may know at this time, residents of Moscow rarely see.
Further, events usually develop along a gentle, but curve going upstairs. As a result, at the end of May, temperatures are recorded in Murmansk up to +18-20 ° C. Although the finish of spring passes under the sign mainly +10-14 ° C.
However, this is also perceived against the backdrop of the Sun who does not leave the sky at all, if not as a breakthrough, then at least like a respite after winter. A joyful promise of heat, which raises the mood and turns hiking around the city, tours to Teriberka, in general in the Kola Peninsula, in incredibly inspiring events.
The weather script in the late nested Murmansk is not in every year similar to the above. But in general, you still should not expect above +7-12 ° C during the first two weeks of May. And on a regular rise in temperature at least to a level of +15-17 ° C-in the second half of the month (where there will be something more often than +10-12 ° C).
The sun and precipitation
But the duration of the day reaches fantastic quantities! If on May 1 the sun in Murmansk and in general on the Kola Peninsula does not enter within 18.5 hours, then after the 20-21 days it completely refuses to rest. Is it too surprised that many for this in their reviews forgive the city of its, in principle, a very harsh climate?!
Will it often rain and snow? Compared to winter months-yes, but actually-no! At the end of spring, the number of openly inconspicuous days on the Kola Peninsula reaches 4-5 per month.
And you should be prepared for wet snow. Strong and winds – if you are gathering in May in Teriberka, consider this circumstance.
How to dress
In accordance with the foregoing information, we convincingly advise you to go to the Arctic in the company with a heavy suitcase at the end of spring. Where it is worth putting a sufficient number of warm sweaters and sweaters, as well as hats, scarves and mittens.
Take with you warm and waterproof shoes plus water -repellent windbreakers. For snow porridge below and it is not clear that the one flying from above in the indicated period is a given for the northern region.
Focus on what (usually) go to Murmansk in May is not worth it. Since the locals, as elsewhere, during the winter, are very missing in heat and the sun. And subconsciously lure him, undressing to light jackets.
Tourists even from the northern regions of Russia should not do this. Since they do not come here in order to wipe the snot and temperature – they have planned classes more interesting.
It seems that the chase in the winter in Kirovsk – gradually turning into one of the main ski centers of Russia. Or photographs of whales in the northern Arctic Ocean – giant animals regularly visit the Barents Sea in late spring. Of course, not for a warm meeting with people – they pursue their own selfish goals.
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Prices 2025
As you know, there is nothing complicated to get to Murmansk from Moscow by car. Moreover, at the end of spring, this method of driving through Northern Russia personally seems to us the most appropriate.
Although not too fast! After all, it is difficult to drive a car from the capital of the country to the main city of its Arctic without an intermediate night. And there are not so many reviews that paint the charms of such a trip.
The plane flies from Moscow to Murmansk for less than 3 hours. And flights in both directions in May 2025 will cost 17-20 thousand rubles per person!
To rent one-, and sometimes a two-room apartment located in a pleasant proximity to the city center, an amount of 3-3.5 thousand rubles per day will be enough.
About the same or even a little less will cost a hotel room with a mini prefix. But renting an apartment in Teriberk in May will turn out at least thousands of 5-6 per day. For two people, it’s clear …
Excursions in the Murmansk region are standardly almost regardless of the season.
Within 4.5-6 thousand rubles for a walk with the guide, those who would like to hear a coherent story, replete with interesting facts from history, walking around the capital of the region, have to be paid. And about 5 thousand, but already for each, you need to put it to those who want to get to Teriberka in the tour, to inspect everything (most importantly) there and return back on the same day.
What to see in Murmansk in May
We mentioned above the possibility of ski exercises in Kirovsk in May – enthusiasts of this case ride from the snowy mountains up to the third decade of the month. It is equally in the city to visit the “Snow Village”, which in late spring threatens to melt in the eyes. And the Apatitis Museum Center, whose stands are replete with samples of minerals mined on the Kola Peninsula.
From May to August, it grows up to the maximum Chance of meeting with whales In the water area of the Barents Sea. This rare opportunity should certainly be used – the second one in life may not be presented. Most often, tourists go to such expeditions from Teriberka.
In Murmansk itself, you are unlikely to pass by the atomic icebreaker “Lenin”, which today operates in the form of a museum. And do not miss the opportunity to pay tribute to the defenders of the Arctic, peering at the distance from the foot of Alyosha.
Ethnography lovers will not miss the opportunity to visit the village of Sami near Murmansk. Well, the connoisseurs of the lost and actually untouched landscapes of the northern nature, perhaps, will visit the Lovozersky tundra.
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