Saky climate by month
What the weather is like
Saky has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 5° and lows of -1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 23°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 459 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (35 mm, 10 wet days) and August the driest (42 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 13% in July to 55% 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, Saky is 4.5° warmer on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- -1° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 13% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 37 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 47 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 | 5° | 6° | 10° | 16° | 22° | 27° | 30° | 30° | 24° | 18° | 12° | 7° |
| Average low | -1° | -1° | 2° | 6° | 11° | 16° | 19° | 19° | 14° | 9° | 5° | 1° |
| Precipitation | 35 mm | 33 mm | 33 mm | 29 mm | 28 mm | 45 mm | 36 mm | 42 mm | 43 mm | 41 mm | 50 mm | 44 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 9.7 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 6.3 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 6.7 | 5 | 5.8 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.6 |
| Cloud cover | 55% | 51% | 45% | 36% | 27% | 22% | 13% | 13% | 20% | 32% | 46% | 55% |
| Sea temperature | 9° | 8° | 8° | 10° | 15° | 20° | 23° | 24° | 22° | 18° | 14° | 11° |
| Daylight | 9h 08 | 10h 25 | 11h 51 | 13h 29 | 14h 51 | 15h 37 | 15h 18 | 14h 07 | 12h 35 | 11h 01 | 9h 34 | 8h 47 |
| Month score | 25 | 32 | 34 | 71 | 81 | 74 | 64 | 67 | 86 | 81 | 44 | 27 |