Zhytomyr climate

Name: Zhytomyr
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Zhytomyr is warmest in July, with average highs of 24 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -5.9 °C. July is the wettest month (91 mm) and February the driest (33 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Zhytomyr averages 624 mm of rain, 40 days above 25 °C and 120 days below freezing.

Ukraine · population 261,624 · 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 January -5.9 °C
Driest month February 33 mm
Wettest month July 91 mm
Least cloud August 49 % cloud
Hottest on record August 35 °C
Coldest on record December -32 °C

What to expectZhytomyr through the year

Zhytomyr has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -1.4 °C in January to 24 °C in July, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 40 days a year reach 25 °C, 5 of them reach 30 °C, 120 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 91 mm against 33 mm in February — 2.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-1.4 °C	34 mm	84 %
February	0.2 °C	33 mm	81 %
March	5.5 °C	42 mm	71 %
April	13.4 °C	45 mm	61 %
May	19.2 °C	67 mm	58 %
June	22.6 °C	74 mm	56 %
July	24.3 °C	91 mm	53 %
August	23.8 °C	59 mm	49 %
September	18.3 °C	57 mm	60 %
October	11.7 °C	42 mm	68 %
November	4.9 °C	42 mm	81 %
December	-0.0 °C	39 mm	85 %

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	-1.4 °C	-5.9 °C	-3.5 °C	10.3 °C	-28.4 °C	0	0	26
February	0.2 °C	-5.7 °C	-2.7 °C	14.3 °C	-30.1 °C	0	0	24
March	5.5 °C	-2.4 °C	1.6 °C	18.4 °C	-21.5 °C	0	0	21
April	13.4 °C	3.5 °C	8.6 °C	26.8 °C	-6.0 °C	0	0	5
May	19.2 °C	9.1 °C	14.5 °C	30.6 °C	-2.0 °C	3	0	0
June	22.6 °C	13.3 °C	18.3 °C	32.0 °C	4.1 °C	9	1	0
July	24.3 °C	15.2 °C	20.0 °C	33.7 °C	8.4 °C	13	2	0
August	23.8 °C	14.5 °C	19.3 °C	34.7 °C	5.4 °C	12	2	0
September	18.3 °C	10.0 °C	14.2 °C	34.0 °C	0.5 °C	3	0	0
October	11.7 °C	4.9 °C	8.2 °C	25.1 °C	-7.0 °C	0	0	4
November	4.9 °C	0.2 °C	2.5 °C	18.0 °C	-25.9 °C	0	0	14
December	-0.0 °C	-4.3 °C	-2.0 °C	13.2 °C	-31.9 °C	0	0	25

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	34 mm	8	8.5 h/day	84 %	84 %	19 km/h
February	33 mm	8	10 h/day	81 %	82 %	19 km/h
March	42 mm	10	12 h/day	71 %	77 %	20 km/h
April	45 mm	10	14 h/day	61 %	69 %	18 km/h
May	67 mm	11	15 h/day	58 %	68 %	18 km/h
June	74 mm	12	16 h/day	56 %	69 %	17 km/h
July	91 mm	12	16 h/day	53 %	71 %	16 km/h
August	59 mm	9	15 h/day	49 %	68 %	16 km/h
September	57 mm	9	13 h/day	60 %	73 %	17 km/h
October	42 mm	8	11 h/day	68 %	79 %	18 km/h
November	42 mm	8	9.0 h/day	81 %	84 %	18 km/h
December	39 mm	9	8.1 h/day	85 %	86 %	19 km/h

How Zhytomyr 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
Zhytomyr	24 °C	-5.9 °C	624 mm	40
Bila Tserkva · Ukraine	25 °C	-5.7 °C	595 mm	50
Vinnytsya · Ukraine	25 °C	-5.8 °C	612 mm	46
Kyiv · Ukraine	25 °C	-6.1 °C	611 mm	46
Khmelnytskyi · Ukraine	24 °C	-5.9 °C	651 mm	38
Rivne · Ukraine	24 °C	-5.3 °C	684 mm	37

Where Zhytomyr ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Europe in August	25th of 50	91/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Zhytomyr’s climate

When is the best time to visit Zhytomyr?

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 Zhytomyr 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 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -5.9 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 120 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Zhytomyr?

July, averaging 91 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is February with 33 mm. The year as a whole averages 624 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 Zhytomyr 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: 50.262°, 28.679° (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.