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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Žilina
Žilina climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest May–Jun · Sep
Annual mean9°day and night
Seasonal swing21°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation776 mm163 wet days a year
49.22° N, 18.74° EElevation 347 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goŽilina · weather score
Best timeMay–Jun · Sep
October: high / low15° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Žilina 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 13°. 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 776 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (93 mm, 17 wet days) and October the driest (53 mm, 11 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 32% in July to 52% in December.
Compared with Bratislava, the capital, Žilina is 2.1° cooler 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
- July · 32% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 13 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 14 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° | 16° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 20° | 15° | 8° | 3° |
| Average low | -5° | -4° | -1° | 3° | 8° | 11° | 13° | 13° | 9° | 5° | 1° | -3° |
| Precipitation | 52 mm | 43 mm | 53 mm | 49 mm | 78 mm | 89 mm | 93 mm | 80 mm | 69 mm | 53 mm | 58 mm | 59 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 14.2 | 12.8 | 12.6 | 11.4 | 16.6 | 16.3 | 17.3 | 13.8 | 12.6 | 10.7 | 11.7 | 13.3 |
| Cloud cover | 49% | 48% | 44% | 38% | 37% | 36% | 32% | 32% | 37% | 41% | 51% | 52% |
| Daylight | 8h 39 | 10h 09 | 11h 50 | 13h 42 | 15h 18 | 16h 13 | 15h 51 | 14h 27 | 12h 39 | 10h 51 | 9h 10 | 8h 14 |
| Month score | 17 | 20 | 22 | 58 | 64 | 65 | 63 | 64 | 67 | 52 | 22 | 17 |
ivMonth by month
Žilina in every month
January17
2° / -5°
52 mm · 14.2 wet days
February20
4° / -4°
43 mm · 12.8 wet days
March22
9° / -1°
53 mm · 12.6 wet days
April58
16° / 3°
49 mm · 11.4 wet days
May64
20° / 8°
78 mm · 16.6 wet days
June65
24° / 11°
89 mm · 16.3 wet days
July63
26° / 13°
93 mm · 17.3 wet days
August64
26° / 13°
80 mm · 13.8 wet days
September67
20° / 9°
69 mm · 12.6 wet days
October52
15° / 5°
53 mm · 10.7 wet days
November22
8° / 1°
58 mm · 11.7 wet days
December17
3° / -3°
59 mm · 13.3 wet days