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09.05.2026

Victory Day in the mirror of weather: a climatic chronicle of Minsk from 1945 to 2025

The average daily air temperature on May 9, 1945, was +6.6°C. During the daytime, the air did not warm above +12.3°C, while at night the temperature dropped to +2.9°C.
For the entire observation period starting from 1945, the average daily air temperature on May 9 is +11.6°C.
This day was cold, with an average daily air temperature below +5.0°C, in 1946, 1987, 2017, and 2025. The coldest May 9 was in 1953, when the average daily air temperature was +0.9°C. On that day, the thermometer did not rise above +5°C, and at night it dropped to -1.8°C. The lowest nighttime temperature was recorded in 2025, reaching -4.1°C.
May 9 was warm, with an average daily air temperature above +18.0°C, in 1954, 1963, 1966, 1981, 1996, 2002, 2013, 2016, and 2018. The hottest Victory Day was in 2013, with an average daily temperature of +19.5°C, when the maximum daytime air temperature reached +26.2°C.

On average, about 4 mm of precipitation falls on May 9.
On May 9, 1945, 0.5 mm of precipitation was recorded in Minsk. In half of the post-war years, no precipitation was observed on May 9, and in 24% of the years, precipitation was insignificant, with less than 1 mm falling. May 9 was rainy in 1946, 1996, 1997, 2005, and 2010, when the amount of precipitation exceeded 10 mm. The rainiest May 9 in the post-war period is considered to be in 1978, when the precipitation amounted to 18.7 mm.

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