Climate and average weather in Jirkov

In Jirkov, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jirkov typically varies from -3°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -11°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 Jirkov for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Jul
81 mm
Driest
Feb
33 mm
Rain / yr
630 mm
130 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
305 m
50.5°N
Clearest
Aug
59% cloud

Jirkov is town in the Czech Republic.

Density
1,123/km²
people per km²
Founded
1352

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

Jirkov 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 late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 24 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Jirkov is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 16 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Jirkov is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 8°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)
Jan1-3
Feb3-3
Mar70
Apr133
May178
Jun2111
Jul2313
Aug2313
Sep189
Oct125
Nov61
Dec2-2

How hot and cold Jirkov 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 -8°C (around January 30), with roughly 165 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)
Jan11-8-3
Feb33-7-3
Mar77-40
Apr131313
May171768
Jun21211111
Jul23231313
Aug23231313
Sep181889
Oct121225
Nov66-21
Dec22-6-2

Average hourly temperature in Jirkov

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 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Jirkov 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 / -3°4310.67.18.30.0
Feb / -3°338.65.49.70.0
Mar / -0°45114.311.50.9
Apr13° / 399.91.313.53.4
May17° / 6012.5015.25.2
Jun21° / 11°7113016.15.8
Jul23° / 13°8113.5015.86.2
Aug23° / 13°7112.2014.36.5
Sep18° / 539.6012.45.6
Oct12° / 4710.30.510.42.9
Nov / 439.12.78.70.5
Dec / -2°4410.167.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Jirkov gets about 630 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 4.3 months, from around Apr 27 to Sep 4, peaking in July at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 26.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 81 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 33 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 9 · 46%Nov 26 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3311
Feb319
Mar3511
Apr3310
May4113
Jun4413
Jul4314
Aug3912
Sep3310
Oct3310
Nov319
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jirkov collects about 630 mm of rain across 130 wet days — roughly 53 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 81 mm, while February is the driest at just 33 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec433345396071817153474344
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan43117
Feb3395
Mar45114
Apr39101
May60130
Jun71130
Jul81140
Aug71120
Sep53100
Oct47101
Nov4393
Dec44106

Snow in Jirkov

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.

Jirkov averages about 27 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 18 to Apr 25 — about 6.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 24 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 102 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 21
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan724
Feb521
Mar416
Apr15
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct12
Nov311
Dec624

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jirkov, 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 23 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around September 28. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 48% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 29 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around March 22. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 80% 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 · 51%Nov 30 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb2872
Mar3268
Apr3862
May3565
Jun3664
Jul4456
Aug4852
Sep3862
Oct3169
Nov2179
Dec2080

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 13, brings about 16 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan8.38:084:23
Feb9.77:305:12
Mar11.56:306:02
Apr13.55:216:52
May15.24:257:40
Jun16.14:018:12
Jul15.84:178:06
Aug14.35:017:20
Sep12.45:496:12
Oct10.46:385:04
Nov8.77:314:12
Dec7.98:083:56

Sunny days

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

Jirkov 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 4.0 months, from around Jun 20 to Oct 20. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 308 daysNov 222 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
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 Jirkov, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 2 · 100%Aug 1 · 91%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun82153
Jul68266
Aug66286
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 Jirkov is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Dec 1 to Apr 11. The windiest month is February, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 12 to Oct 27, with August the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 2 · 12 km/hAug 3 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Jirkov

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Jirkov 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 Jirkov for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 6.6

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
Mar0.9poor
Apr3.4poor
May5.1fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.4good
Sep5.5good
Oct3.0poor
Nov0.5poor
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 Jirkov 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 · 5.5

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 Jirkov, 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 23°C), the essentials are light clothes, 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, Jirkov sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Jirkov 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 Jirkov peaks around June 21 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 22 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 highHighModerateLowJun 21UV 7Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Jirkov

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 3.5 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
Mar30
Apr40
May70
Jun83.5
Jul83.5
Aug72
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Jirkov by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Jirkov is worst in April — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1321 µg/m³Dec 1414 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar20Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Jirkov typically lasts about 249 days, from around March 18 to November 21 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 24 to October 14.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1850%Apr 2490%Oct 1490%Nov 2150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2631
Feb2728
Mar4831
Apr8123
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8919
Nov5930
Dec3231

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. Jirkov banks about 830 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May76
Jun173
Jul244
Aug236
Sep97
Oct3
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.

Jirkov 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 285.4 kWhDec 190.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.7Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.1Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Jirkov?

Jirkov sits at 50.5°N, 13.4°E, 305 m above sea level, in Czechia. The nearest listed city is Chomutov, 5.0 km away.

LounyTeplice

Topography around Jirkov

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jirkov has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 318 m around an average of 362 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 864 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,205 m.

The land around Jirkov is covered by trees (47%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, trees (47%), cropland (23%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (45%) and cropland (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
318 m
16 km
864 m
80 km
1,205 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Chomutov 5.0 km · Most 13 km · Litvínov 17 km · Kadaň 18 km · Žatec 20 km · Marienberg 26 km · Louny 29 km · Teplice 31 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 Jirkov (50.4998°, 13.4477°, elevation 305 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. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).