Climate and average weather in Cheb

In Cheb, the summers are mild, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cheb typically varies from -4°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -12°C or above 30°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Cheb for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Jul
84 mm
Driest
Feb
48 mm
Rain / yr
761 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
459 m
50.1°N
Clearest
Aug
60% cloud

Cheb is town in the Czech Republic.

Air quality
Excellent
PM10 14.2 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
340/km²
people per km²
Founded
1179

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Cheb weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late May to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Cheb, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 22 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Cheb is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 16 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Cheb is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-4
Feb2-3
Mar70
Apr123
May177
Jun2010
Jul2212
Aug2212
Sep178
Oct115
Nov51
Dec2-2

How hot and cold Cheb really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -9°C (around January 30), with roughly 169 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan11-8-4
Feb22-8-3
Mar77-40
Apr121203
May171757
Jun20201010
Jul22221212
Aug22221212
Sep171778
Oct111125
Nov55-31
Dec22-7-2

Average hourly temperature in Cheb

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 22°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Cheb weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -4°6212.78.68.30.0
Feb / -3°489.96.89.70.0
Mar / -0°5912.34.811.50.8
Apr12° / 4910.61.413.53.1
May17° / 6813.1015.24.9
Jun20° / 10°7713.2016.15.7
Jul22° / 12°8413.3015.76.1
Aug22° / 12°7312.2014.36.3
Sep17° / 6010.1012.45.2
Oct11° / 5810.70.510.52.7
Nov / 5710.43.68.80.4
Dec / -2°6612.88.37.90.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Cheb gets about 761 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.7 months, from around Apr 28 to Aug 18, peaking in June at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 21.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 84 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 48 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 9 · 46%Sep 21 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4013
Feb3610
Mar3812
Apr3611
May4213
Jun4413
Jul4313
Aug3912
Sep3510
Oct3411
Nov3510
Dec4113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cheb collects about 761 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 63 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 84 mm, while February is the driest at just 48 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec624859496877847360585766
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan62139
Feb48107
Mar59125
Apr49111
May68130
Jun77130
Jul84130
Aug73120
Sep60100
Oct58111
Nov57104
Dec66138

Snow in Cheb

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Cheb averages about 34 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 17 to Apr 28 — about 6.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 33 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 137 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 23
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan933
Feb730
Mar517
Apr16
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct12
Nov416
Dec833

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Cheb, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around March 26 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around September 29. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 46% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 17 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around March 25. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 84% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 5 · 49%Dec 13 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2080
Feb2377
Mar2773
Apr3664
May3565
Jun3664
Jul4258
Aug4654
Sep3565
Oct2872
Nov1783
Dec1684

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 19, brings about 16 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 19, only 7 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.38:114:29
Feb9.77:335:17
Mar11.56:346:06
Apr13.55:256:56
May15.24:317:42
Jun16.14:078:15
Jul15.74:238:09
Aug14.35:067:23
Sep12.45:546:16
Oct10.56:425:09
Nov8.87:334:18
Dec7.98:114:03

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Cheb averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Jun 19 to Sep 30. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 8 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 58 daysNov 272 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Cheb, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 6% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun80173
Jul65306
Aug66295
Sep9191
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Cheb is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 20 to Apr 8. The windiest month is January, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 9 to Oct 19, with August the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 3 · 13 km/hAug 3 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov12calm
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Cheb

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Cheb throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early June, Cheb is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Cheb for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 6.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.8poor
Apr3.1poor
May4.8fair
Jun5.7good
Jul6.1good
Aug6.3good
Sep5.2fair
Oct2.7poor
Nov0.4poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Cheb for hot-weather activities is from mid July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 4.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Cheb, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 22°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 1°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Cheb sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cheb by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Cheb peaks around July 11 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 11UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul7Very high
Aug7High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Cheb

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar3.50
Apr4.50
May71
Jun84
Jul84
Aug72.5
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Cheb typically lasts about 246 days, from around March 20 to November 20 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 25 to October 12.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2050%Apr 2590%Oct 1290%Nov 2050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2431
Feb2528
Mar4631
Apr8026
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8820
Nov5930
Dec3131

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Cheb banks about 723 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600800JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May61
Jun154
Jul219
Aug210
Sep78
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Cheb receives about 3.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 265.4 kWhDec 200.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.7Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.2Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Cheb?

Cheb sits at 50.1°N, 12.4°E, 459 m above sea level, in Czechia. The nearest listed city is Selb, 20 km away.

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Topography around Cheb

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Cheb.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cheb has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 114 m around an average of 470 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 538 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,053 m.

The land around Cheb is covered by cropland (31%), trees (26%) and grassland (23%) within 3 km, trees (47%), cropland (28%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
114 m
16 km
538 m
80 km
1,053 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Selb 20 km · Sokolov 22 km · Marktredwitz 22 km · Mariánské Lázně 27 km · Karlovy Vary 39 km · Hof 42 km · Weiden 47 km · Ostrov 47 km

Czechia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 59% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$35,917
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 582
Religion
none 48%believers unaffiliated with a religious society 9%Roman Catholic 7%other believers belonging to a church or religious society 6%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Cheb (50.0796°, 12.3739°, elevation 459 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).