Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Alytus
Alytus climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest May · Aug–Sep
Annual mean8°day and night
Seasonal swing22°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation672 mm153 wet days a year
54.40° N, 24.04° EElevation 104 mUTC+3 · Eastern European Summer Time
When to goAlytus · weather score
Best timeMay · Aug–Sep
October: high / low11° / 4°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Alytus has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 24° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of -1° and lows of -5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 22°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 672 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (87 mm, 17 wet days) and April the driest (36 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 34% in August to 65% in December.
Compared with Vilnius, the capital, Alytus is 0° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 24° · July
- Coldest nights
- -5° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- August · 34% cloud
- Longest day
- 17 h 12 min
- Shortest day
- 7 h 20 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | -1° | 0° | 5° | 13° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 18° | 11° | 5° | 1° |
| Average low | -5° | -5° | -2° | 3° | 8° | 11° | 14° | 13° | 9° | 4° | 1° | -3° |
| Precipitation | 47 mm | 35 mm | 37 mm | 36 mm | 64 mm | 81 mm | 87 mm | 76 mm | 57 mm | 52 mm | 49 mm | 51 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 13.3 | 10.9 | 11.3 | 9.9 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 17.4 | 13.4 | 10.8 | 12.3 | 13.1 | 13.2 |
| Cloud cover | 64% | 61% | 51% | 42% | 36% | 38% | 35% | 34% | 43% | 48% | 62% | 65% |
| Daylight | 7h 53 | 9h 45 | 11h 47 | 14h 02 | 16h 01 | 17h 12 | 16h 43 | 14h 57 | 12h 46 | 10h 36 | 8h 32 | 7h 20 |
| Month score | 12 | 19 | 23 | 46 | 66 | 64 | 65 | 67 | 69 | 27 | 14 | 12 |
ivMonth by month
Alytus in every month
January12
-1° / -5°
47 mm · 13.3 wet days
February19
0° / -5°
35 mm · 10.9 wet days
March23
5° / -2°
37 mm · 11.3 wet days
April46
13° / 3°
36 mm · 9.9 wet days
May66
19° / 8°
64 mm · 13.2 wet days
June64
22° / 11°
81 mm · 14.4 wet days
July65
24° / 14°
87 mm · 17.4 wet days
August67
24° / 13°
76 mm · 13.4 wet days
September69
18° / 9°
57 mm · 10.8 wet days
October27
11° / 4°
52 mm · 12.3 wet days
November14
5° / 1°
49 mm · 13.1 wet days
December12
1° / -3°
51 mm · 13.2 wet days