Kielce climate

Name: Kielce
Address: PL

Kielce is warmest in July, with average highs of 23 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -4.9 °C. July is the wettest month (89 mm) and February the driest (37 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kielce averages 668 mm of rain, 30 days above 25 °C and 106 days below freezing.

Poland · population 192,468 · 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 -4.9 °C
Driest month February 37 mm
Wettest month July 89 mm
Least cloud August 54 % cloud
Hottest on record August 35 °C
Coldest on record January -28 °C

What to expectKielce through the year

Kielce has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 0.2 °C in January to 23 °C in July, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 30 days a year reach 25 °C, 4 of them reach 30 °C, 106 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 89 mm against 37 mm in February — 2.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	0.2 °C	40 mm	77 %
February	2.0 °C	37 mm	76 %
March	6.7 °C	44 mm	67 %
April	13.2 °C	50 mm	60 %
May	18.1 °C	74 mm	60 %
June	21.4 °C	77 mm	59 %
July	23.4 °C	89 mm	57 %
August	23.3 °C	64 mm	54 %
September	18.0 °C	64 mm	61 %
October	12.3 °C	50 mm	67 %
November	6.3 °C	40 mm	77 %
December	1.7 °C	39 mm	78 %

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	0.2 °C	-4.9 °C	-2.3 °C	14.2 °C	-28.2 °C	0	0	25
February	2.0 °C	-4.3 °C	-1.1 °C	14.0 °C	-26.4 °C	0	0	22
March	6.7 °C	-1.4 °C	2.7 °C	18.9 °C	-16.1 °C	0	0	19
April	13.2 °C	3.5 °C	8.6 °C	26.8 °C	-9.2 °C	0	0	5
May	18.1 °C	8.7 °C	13.7 °C	29.7 °C	-3.6 °C	2	0	0
June	21.4 °C	12.3 °C	17.2 °C	32.8 °C	4.7 °C	6	1	0
July	23.4 °C	14.4 °C	19.2 °C	33.9 °C	7.8 °C	10	2	0
August	23.3 °C	14.2 °C	18.9 °C	34.9 °C	7.0 °C	10	2	0
September	18.0 °C	9.9 °C	14.0 °C	33.3 °C	1.5 °C	2	0	0
October	12.3 °C	5.4 °C	8.7 °C	24.1 °C	-8.5 °C	0	0	3
November	6.3 °C	1.1 °C	3.7 °C	18.8 °C	-15.7 °C	0	0	12
December	1.7 °C	-2.9 °C	-0.5 °C	12.7 °C	-21.1 °C	0	0	21

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	10	8.4 h/day	77 %	86 %	21 km/h
February	37 mm	9	10 h/day	76 %	83 %	21 km/h
March	44 mm	10	12 h/day	67 %	77 %	21 km/h
April	50 mm	10	14 h/day	60 %	71 %	19 km/h
May	74 mm	13	16 h/day	60 %	72 %	18 km/h
June	77 mm	12	17 h/day	59 %	72 %	18 km/h
July	89 mm	13	16 h/day	57 %	72 %	17 km/h
August	64 mm	10	15 h/day	54 %	71 %	16 km/h
September	64 mm	10	13 h/day	61 %	77 %	18 km/h
October	50 mm	8	11 h/day	67 %	82 %	19 km/h
November	40 mm	9	9.0 h/day	77 %	87 %	19 km/h
December	39 mm	9	8.0 h/day	78 %	86 %	20 km/h

How Kielce 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
Kielce	23 °C	-4.9 °C	668 mm	30
Kraków · Poland	24 °C	-5.0 °C	781 mm	34
Łódź · Poland	23 °C	-4.2 °C	656 mm	31
Katowice · Poland	23 °C	-4.5 °C	747 mm	31

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kielce’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kielce?

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 Kielce get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 23 °C. About 4 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -4.9 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 106 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Kielce?

July, averaging 89 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 37 mm. The year as a whole averages 668 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 Kielce 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: 50.870°, 20.628° (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.