Vilnius climate

Name: Vilnius
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Vilnius is warmest in July, with average highs of 23 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -5.9 °C. July is the wettest month (89 mm) and February the driest (41 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Vilnius averages 692 mm of rain, 20 days above 25 °C and 118 days below freezing.

Lithuania · population 542,366 · 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 23 °C
Coldest month January -5.9 °C
Driest month February 41 mm
Wettest month July 89 mm
Least cloud August 59 % cloud
Hottest on record July 33 °C
Coldest on record February -30 °C

What to expectVilnius through the year

Vilnius has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -1.7 °C in January to 23 °C in July, a swing of 22 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 20 days a year reach 25 °C, 2 of them reach 30 °C, 118 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 89 mm against 41 mm in February — 2.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-1.7 °C	46 mm	85 %
February	-0.7 °C	41 mm	82 %
March	4.1 °C	43 mm	72 %
April	11.7 °C	46 mm	62 %
May	17.3 °C	67 mm	60 %
June	20.6 °C	73 mm	60 %
July	22.6 °C	89 mm	59 %
August	21.9 °C	82 mm	59 %
September	16.6 °C	56 mm	67 %
October	10.0 °C	57 mm	74 %
November	4.1 °C	45 mm	86 %
December	0.0 °C	48 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	-1.7 °C	-5.9 °C	-3.6 °C	11.0 °C	-28.2 °C	0	0	25
February	-0.7 °C	-5.8 °C	-3.1 °C	10.7 °C	-30.0 °C	0	0	23
March	4.1 °C	-2.9 °C	0.7 °C	16.1 °C	-22.4 °C	0	0	22
April	11.7 °C	2.5 °C	7.3 °C	25.9 °C	-8.6 °C	0	0	8
May	17.3 °C	8.0 °C	13.0 °C	28.5 °C	-2.0 °C	1	0	0
June	20.6 °C	11.9 °C	16.7 °C	31.8 °C	3.3 °C	5	0	0
July	22.6 °C	14.3 °C	18.8 °C	33.1 °C	7.7 °C	8	1	0
August	21.9 °C	13.8 °C	18.0 °C	33.1 °C	7.0 °C	6	1	0
September	16.6 °C	9.7 °C	13.2 °C	29.7 °C	-1.4 °C	1	0	0
October	10.0 °C	4.7 °C	7.3 °C	21.1 °C	-6.4 °C	0	0	4
November	4.1 °C	0.5 °C	2.4 °C	14.2 °C	-21.1 °C	0	0	12
December	0.0 °C	-3.6 °C	-1.7 °C	10.8 °C	-29.7 °C	0	0	22

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	46 mm	11	7.8 h/day	85 %	87 %	20 km/h
February	41 mm	11	9.7 h/day	82 %	85 %	20 km/h
March	43 mm	10	12 h/day	72 %	79 %	20 km/h
April	46 mm	10	14 h/day	62 %	72 %	18 km/h
May	67 mm	12	16 h/day	60 %	70 %	18 km/h
June	73 mm	12	17 h/day	60 %	71 %	17 km/h
July	89 mm	13	17 h/day	59 %	74 %	16 km/h
August	82 mm	12	15 h/day	59 %	74 %	16 km/h
September	56 mm	10	13 h/day	67 %	78 %	18 km/h
October	57 mm	11	11 h/day	74 %	83 %	19 km/h
November	45 mm	10	8.5 h/day	86 %	87 %	19 km/h
December	48 mm	11	7.3 h/day	87 %	88 %	20 km/h

How Vilnius 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
Vilnius	23 °C	-5.9 °C	692 mm	20
Kaunas · Lithuania	23 °C	-5.4 °C	660 mm	22
Hrodna · Belarus	23 °C	-5.3 °C	654 mm	24
Minsk · Belarus	22 °C	-7.3 °C	666 mm	21
Baranovichi · Belarus	23 °C	-6.3 °C	654 mm	25
Białystok · Poland	23 °C	-5.2 °C	658 mm	27

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Vilnius’s climate

When is the best time to visit Vilnius?

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 Vilnius get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 23 °C. About 2 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -5.9 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 118 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Vilnius?

July, averaging 89 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 41 mm. The year as a whole averages 692 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 Vilnius 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: 54.689°, 25.280° (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.