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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kraków
Kraków climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest Jun · Aug–Sep
Annual mean9°day and night
Seasonal swing21°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation688 mm140 wet days a year
50.06° N, 19.94° EElevation 219 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goKraków · weather score
Best timeJun · Aug–Sep
October: high / low14° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kraków 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 26° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 2° and lows of -5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 21°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 688 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (90 mm, 16 wet days) and October the driest (44 mm, 9 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 33% in August to 53% in December.
Compared with Warsaw, the capital, Kraków is 0.3° warmer on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 26° · July
- Coldest nights
- -5° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- October
- Clearest skies
- August · 33% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 21 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 06 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 | 2° | 4° | 9° | 15° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 25° | 20° | 14° | 8° | 3° |
| Average low | -5° | -4° | -1° | 4° | 9° | 12° | 14° | 13° | 9° | 5° | 1° | -3° |
| Precipitation | 38 mm | 32 mm | 42 mm | 45 mm | 81 mm | 90 mm | 90 mm | 78 mm | 64 mm | 44 mm | 43 mm | 41 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.1 | 10.4 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 14.7 | 14.6 | 15.7 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 10.1 | 10.4 |
| Cloud cover | 50% | 50% | 46% | 39% | 39% | 38% | 34% | 33% | 39% | 42% | 51% | 53% |
| Daylight | 8h 32 | 10h 06 | 11h 49 | 13h 45 | 15h 24 | 16h 21 | 15h 58 | 14h 31 | 12h 40 | 10h 49 | 9h 04 | 8h 06 |
| Month score | 21 | 25 | 25 | 59 | 63 | 64 | 63 | 71 | 72 | 53 | 25 | 24 |
ivMonth by month
Kraków in every month
January21
2° / -5°
38 mm · 12.1 wet days
February25
4° / -4°
32 mm · 10.4 wet days
March25
9° / -1°
42 mm · 11.1 wet days
April59
15° / 4°
45 mm · 9.9 wet days
May63
20° / 9°
81 mm · 14.7 wet days
June64
24° / 12°
90 mm · 14.6 wet days
July63
26° / 14°
90 mm · 15.7 wet days
August71
25° / 13°
78 mm · 11.3 wet days
September72
20° / 9°
64 mm · 10.5 wet days
October53
14° / 5°
44 mm · 9.2 wet days
November25
8° / 1°
43 mm · 10.1 wet days
December24
3° / -3°
41 mm · 10.4 wet days