Klaipėda climate

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Klaipėda is warmest in July, with average highs of 21 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average -3.0 °C. August is the wettest month (82 mm) and April the driest (38 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Klaipėda averages 727 mm of rain, 12 days above 25 °C and 83 days below freezing.

Lithuania · population 172,292 · 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 21 °C
Coldest month February -3.0 °C
Driest month April 38 mm
Wettest month August 82 mm
Least cloud May 53 % cloud
Hottest on record August 32 °C
Coldest on record January -23 °C
Warmest sea August 19 °C

What to expectKlaipėda through the year

Klaipėda has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 0.9 °C in February to 21 °C in July, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 12 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C, 83 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 82 mm against 38 mm in April — 2.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Klaipėda is warmest in August at 19 °C and coldest in February at 2.3 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	0.7 °C	60 mm	79 %
February	0.9 °C	47 mm	77 %
March	4.2 °C	43 mm	67 %
April	10.3 °C	38 mm	57 %
May	15.5 °C	42 mm	53 %
June	18.8 °C	60 mm	56 %
July	21.3 °C	74 mm	55 %
August	21.0 °C	82 mm	58 %
September	16.5 °C	71 mm	63 %
October	10.8 °C	81 mm	70 %
November	6.0 °C	66 mm	81 %
December	2.7 °C	64 mm	82 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	0.7 °C	-2.8 °C	-0.9 °C	9.1 °C	-23.3 °C	0	19
February	0.9 °C	-3.0 °C	-0.9 °C	11.0 °C	-22.7 °C	0	19
March	4.2 °C	-1.0 °C	1.6 °C	16.1 °C	-16.4 °C	0	17
April	10.3 °C	3.0 °C	6.8 °C	25.8 °C	-6.8 °C	0	6
May	15.5 °C	8.0 °C	12.0 °C	27.0 °C	-2.3 °C	1	0
June	18.8 °C	12.1 °C	15.7 °C	31.7 °C	3.7 °C	2	0
July	21.3 °C	15.2 °C	18.4 °C	31.2 °C	8.4 °C	5	0
August	21.0 °C	15.1 °C	18.2 °C	32.2 °C	8.8 °C	4	0
September	16.5 °C	11.5 °C	14.1 °C	27.2 °C	1.1 °C	0	0
October	10.8 °C	6.9 °C	8.9 °C	21.8 °C	-6.0 °C	0	1
November	6.0 °C	2.8 °C	4.5 °C	13.9 °C	-12.8 °C	0	7
December	2.7 °C	-0.5 °C	1.2 °C	10.8 °C	-18.9 °C	0	15

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	60 mm	12	7.7 h/day	79 %	84 %	24 km/h	3.7 °C
February	47 mm	10	9.6 h/day	77 %	83 %	24 km/h	2.3 °C
March	43 mm	10	12 h/day	67 %	79 %	22 km/h	2.5 °C
April	38 mm	8	14 h/day	57 %	75 %	20 km/h	5.1 °C
May	42 mm	9	16 h/day	53 %	72 %	19 km/h	9.6 °C
June	60 mm	10	18 h/day	56 %	74 %	20 km/h	14.2 °C
July	74 mm	12	17 h/day	55 %	75 %	19 km/h	17.8 °C
August	82 mm	13	15 h/day	58 %	75 %	19 km/h	18.9 °C
September	71 mm	11	13 h/day	63 %	78 %	21 km/h	16.2 °C
October	81 mm	13	11 h/day	70 %	81 %	23 km/h	12.4 °C
November	66 mm	12	8.3 h/day	81 %	84 %	23 km/h	8.9 °C
December	64 mm	13	7.1 h/day	82 %	85 %	24 km/h	6.0 °C

How Klaipėda 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
Klaipėda	21 °C	-3.0 °C	727 mm	12
Kaliningrad · Russia	23 °C	-3.6 °C	696 mm	23
Kaunas · Lithuania	23 °C	-5.4 °C	660 mm	22
Gdynia · Poland	21 °C	-1.8 °C	705 mm	10
Gdańsk · Poland	22 °C	-2.3 °C	600 mm	18
Olsztyn · Poland	22 °C	-4.6 °C	655 mm	21
Riga · Latvia	22 °C	-5.5 °C	696 mm	18

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Klaipėda.

QuestionsCommon questions about Klaipėda’s climate

When is the best time to visit Klaipėda?

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 April the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Klaipėda get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 21 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -3.0 °C in February, the coldest month. A normal year has 83 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Klaipėda?

August, averaging 82 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is April with 38 mm. The year as a whole averages 727 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 Klaipėda 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: 55.707°, 21.139° (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.