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Odesa climate by month
What the weather is like
Odesa 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 29° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 2° and lows of -3°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 24°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 456 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (51 mm, 9 wet days) and August the driest (39 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 19% in July to 56% in January.
The sea reaches about 24° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Kyiv, the capital, Odesa is 2.5° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · July
- Coldest nights
- -3° · January
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 19% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 48 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 36 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 2° | 4° | 8° | 15° | 21° | 26° | 29° | 28° | 22° | 16° | 9° | 4° |
| Average low | -3° | -2° | 1° | 7° | 12° | 16° | 19° | 18° | 14° | 8° | 3° | -1° |
| Precipitation | 34 mm | 34 mm | 32 mm | 29 mm | 37 mm | 51 mm | 47 mm | 39 mm | 40 mm | 35 mm | 41 mm | 37 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.7 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 5.3 | 8.1 | 9.2 | 7.3 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 7.5 |
| Cloud cover | 56% | 52% | 47% | 37% | 28% | 26% | 19% | 19% | 26% | 36% | 52% | 56% |
| Sea temperature | 5° | 4° | 5° | 9° | 15° | 21° | 23° | 24° | 20° | 16° | 12° | 8° |
| Daylight | 8h 59 | 10h 20 | 11h 51 | 13h 33 | 14h 59 | 15h 48 | 15h 28 | 14h 13 | 12h 36 | 10h 58 | 9h 27 | 8h 36 |
| Month score | 27 | 33 | 33 | 67 | 81 | 75 | 67 | 74 | 87 | 70 | 34 | 29 |