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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kharkiv
Kharkiv climate by month
Hot-summer humid continental · DfaBest Jun · Aug–Sep
Annual mean9°day and night
Seasonal swing27°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation525 mm113 wet days a year
49.98° N, 36.25° EElevation 94 mUTC+3 · Eastern European Summer Time
When to goKharkiv · weather score
Best timeJun · Aug–Sep
October: high / low13° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kharkiv has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 28° and nights 17°. January is the coolest month, with highs of -2° and lows of -7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 27°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 525 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (48 mm, 12 wet days) and August the driest (41 mm, 6 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in August to 66% in January.
Compared with Kyiv, the capital, Kharkiv is 1.3° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · July
- Coldest nights
- -7° · January
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 25% cloud
- Longest day
- 16 h 20 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 07 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° | -1° | 5° | 15° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 27° | 21° | 13° | 4° | -1° |
| Average low | -7° | -7° | -2° | 5° | 11° | 15° | 17° | 16° | 10° | 5° | -1° | -5° |
| Precipitation | 38 mm | 35 mm | 33 mm | 34 mm | 48 mm | 60 mm | 62 mm | 41 mm | 46 mm | 45 mm | 44 mm | 39 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.6 | 8.9 | 10 | 8.8 | 12.1 | 10.8 | 11.2 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 9.8 |
| Cloud cover | 66% | 62% | 51% | 43% | 34% | 32% | 27% | 25% | 35% | 46% | 60% | 65% |
| Daylight | 8h 33 | 10h 06 | 11h 49 | 13h 44 | 15h 23 | 16h 20 | 15h 57 | 14h 31 | 12h 40 | 10h 49 | 9h 05 | 8h 07 |
| Month score | 16 | 24 | 26 | 59 | 70 | 72 | 63 | 76 | 81 | 47 | 26 | 20 |
ivMonth by month
Kharkiv in every month
January16
-2° / -7°
38 mm · 11.6 wet days
February24
-1° / -7°
35 mm · 8.9 wet days
March26
5° / -2°
33 mm · 10 wet days
April59
15° / 5°
34 mm · 8.8 wet days
May70
22° / 11°
48 mm · 12.1 wet days
June72
26° / 15°
60 mm · 10.8 wet days
July63
28° / 17°
62 mm · 11.2 wet days
August76
27° / 16°
41 mm · 6.4 wet days
September81
21° / 10°
46 mm · 7.3 wet days
October47
13° / 5°
45 mm · 7.8 wet days
November26
4° / -1°
44 mm · 8.3 wet days
December20
-1° / -5°
39 mm · 9.8 wet days