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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Prešov
Prešov climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest Jun · Aug–Sep
Annual mean9°day and night
Seasonal swing23°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation612 mm143 wet days a year
49.00° N, 21.24° EElevation 253 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goPrešov · weather score
Best timeJun · Aug–Sep
October: high / low14° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Prešov 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 1° and lows of -5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 23°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 612 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (72 mm, 16 wet days) and March the driest (29 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 31% in August to 54% in December.
Compared with Bratislava, the capital, Prešov is 1.5° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 26° · July
- Coldest nights
- -5° · January
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- March
- Clearest skies
- August · 31% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 10 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 16 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° | 3° | 9° | 16° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 21° | 14° | 8° | 2° |
| Average low | -5° | -4° | 0° | 4° | 8° | 12° | 14° | 14° | 9° | 5° | 1° | -4° |
| Precipitation | 25 mm | 28 mm | 29 mm | 45 mm | 72 mm | 84 mm | 89 mm | 72 mm | 54 mm | 42 mm | 36 mm | 36 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 10.7 | 10.1 | 9.6 | 10.9 | 16.2 | 16.1 | 16.1 | 12.2 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 10.8 |
| Cloud cover | 50% | 49% | 44% | 39% | 37% | 35% | 32% | 31% | 36% | 41% | 51% | 54% |
| Daylight | 8h 41 | 10h 10 | 11h 50 | 13h 41 | 15h 16 | 16h 10 | 15h 49 | 14h 26 | 12h 39 | 10h 52 | 9h 11 | 8h 16 |
| Month score | 24 | 26 | 30 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 61 | 65 | 73 | 52 | 25 | 23 |
ivMonth by month
Prešov in every month
January24
1° / -5°
25 mm · 10.7 wet days
February26
3° / -4°
28 mm · 10.1 wet days
March30
9° / 0°
29 mm · 9.6 wet days
April62
16° / 4°
45 mm · 10.9 wet days
May64
21° / 8°
72 mm · 16.2 wet days
June65
24° / 12°
84 mm · 16.1 wet days
July61
26° / 14°
89 mm · 16.1 wet days
August65
26° / 14°
72 mm · 12.2 wet days
September73
21° / 9°
54 mm · 10.2 wet days
October52
14° / 5°
42 mm · 9.8 wet days
November25
8° / 1°
36 mm · 10.1 wet days
December23
2° / -4°
36 mm · 10.8 wet days