Homyel' climate

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Homyel' is warmest in July, with average highs of 24 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average -7.0 °C. July is the wettest month (86 mm) and February the driest (37 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Homyel' averages 627 mm of rain, 37 days above 25 °C and 128 days below freezing.

Belarus · population 501,193 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 24 °C
Coldest month February -7.0 °C
Driest month February 37 mm
Wettest month July 86 mm
Least cloud August 53 % cloud
Hottest on record August 36 °C
Coldest on record December -34 °C

What to expectHomyel' through the year

Homyel' has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -1.5 °C in February to 24 °C in July, a swing of 25 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 37 days a year reach 25 °C, 5 of them reach 30 °C, 128 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 86 mm against 37 mm in February — 2.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-2.5 °C	37 mm	87 %
February	-1.5 °C	37 mm	82 %
March	4.2 °C	39 mm	72 %
April	12.8 °C	42 mm	63 %
May	19.0 °C	67 mm	58 %
June	22.4 °C	69 mm	55 %
July	24.2 °C	86 mm	54 %
August	23.3 °C	56 mm	53 %
September	17.6 °C	53 mm	63 %
October	10.6 °C	56 mm	71 %
November	3.5 °C	44 mm	85 %
December	-1.0 °C	41 mm	87 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-2.5 °C	-6.9 °C	-4.6 °C	8.9 °C	-28.5 °C	0	0	28
February	-1.5 °C	-7.0 °C	-4.0 °C	12.4 °C	-32.0 °C	0	0	25
March	4.2 °C	-3.4 °C	0.5 °C	17.8 °C	-22.4 °C	0	0	23
April	12.8 °C	3.0 °C	8.1 °C	26.3 °C	-6.8 °C	0	0	7
May	19.0 °C	9.0 °C	14.4 °C	31.2 °C	-2.0 °C	4	0	0
June	22.4 °C	13.1 °C	18.2 °C	32.1 °C	4.0 °C	9	1	0
July	24.2 °C	15.2 °C	20.0 °C	33.9 °C	8.3 °C	12	2	0
August	23.3 °C	14.3 °C	19.0 °C	35.6 °C	6.3 °C	10	2	0
September	17.6 °C	9.6 °C	13.6 °C	31.9 °C	-0.5 °C	2	0	0
October	10.6 °C	4.3 °C	7.4 °C	24.3 °C	-6.8 °C	0	0	5
November	3.5 °C	-0.8 °C	1.4 °C	16.1 °C	-21.8 °C	0	0	15
December	-1.0 °C	-5.1 °C	-2.9 °C	11.5 °C	-34.4 °C	0	0	26

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	37 mm	9	8.2 h/day	87 %	85 %	21 km/h
February	37 mm	9	9.9 h/day	82 %	84 %	21 km/h
March	39 mm	9	12 h/day	72 %	78 %	21 km/h
April	42 mm	9	14 h/day	63 %	69 %	19 km/h
May	67 mm	11	16 h/day	58 %	68 %	19 km/h
June	69 mm	11	17 h/day	55 %	68 %	18 km/h
July	86 mm	13	16 h/day	54 %	71 %	17 km/h
August	56 mm	9	15 h/day	53 %	69 %	17 km/h
September	53 mm	8	13 h/day	63 %	73 %	18 km/h
October	56 mm	9	11 h/day	71 %	80 %	19 km/h
November	44 mm	9	8.8 h/day	85 %	85 %	19 km/h
December	41 mm	10	7.7 h/day	87 %	86 %	20 km/h

How Homyel' compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Homyel'	24 °C	-7.0 °C	627 mm	37
Bobruysk · Belarus	24 °C	-7.0 °C	644 mm	29
Kyiv · Ukraine	25 °C	-6.1 °C	611 mm	46
Bryansk · Russia	23 °C	-8.9 °C	645 mm	29

Where Homyel' ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Europe in August	36th of 50	90/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Homyel'.

QuestionsCommon questions about Homyel'’s climate

When is the best time to visit Homyel'?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Homyel' get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 24 °C. About 5 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -7.0 °C in February, the coldest month. A normal year has 128 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Homyel'?

July, averaging 86 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 37 mm. The year as a whole averages 627 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Homyel' rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 52.434°, 30.975° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.