Climate and average weather in Kutaisi

In Kutaisi, the summers are humid, hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early May to early August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kutaisi typically varies from -1°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -7°C or above 35°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kutaisi for warm-weather activities are from early May to early August and early August to late October.

Hottest
Aug
29°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Mar
153 mm
Driest
Aug
96 mm
Rain / yr
1524 mm
154 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
153 m
42.3°N
Clearest
Aug
36% cloud

Kutaisi 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 early May to early August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 26 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Kutaisi is August, with an average high of 29°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 29 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Kutaisi is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 6°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°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan6-1
Feb70
Mar113
Apr177
May2212
Jun2516
Jul2819
Aug2919
Sep2515
Oct2011
Nov135
Dec71

How hot and cold Kutaisi 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 -5°C (around January 28), with roughly 104 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan56-4-1
Feb77-30
Mar111103
Apr171767
May22221212
Jun25251616
Jul28281819
Aug29291919
Sep25251515
Oct20201011
Nov131335
Dec77-21

Average hourly temperature in Kutaisi

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 August afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -1°C.

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

Kutaisi 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 / -1°149149.39.30.2
Feb / -0°12512.28.610.30.7
Mar11° / 15314.66.311.62.4
Apr17° / 12114.1113.14.8
May22° / 12°11713.6014.46.1
Jun25° / 16°12214.40156.3
Jul28° / 19°10012.4014.86.1
Aug29° / 19°9611.3013.76.0
Sep25° / 15°11511.4012.36.9
Oct20° / 11°140110.110.86.2
Nov13° / 14011.52.49.63.5
Dec / 14613.16.191.0

Chance of rain

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

Kutaisi gets about 1524 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 6.9 months, from around Dec 14 to Jul 11, peaking in June at about 49% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 11.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 153 mm over about 15 wet days; August is the driest, with 96 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 5 · 49%Oct 11 · 34%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4514
Feb4412
Mar4715
Apr4714
May4514
Jun4614
Jul4112
Aug3711
Sep3711
Oct3611
Nov3812
Dec4213

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kutaisi collects about 1524 mm of rain across 154 wet days — roughly 127 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 153 mm, while August is the driest at just 96 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec14912515312111712210096115140140146
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan149149
Feb125129
Mar153156
Apr121141
May117140
Jun122140
Jul100120
Aug96110
Sep115110
Oct140110
Nov140122
Dec146136

Snow in Kutaisi

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.

Kutaisi averages about 34 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 31 to Apr 25 — about 5.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 81 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 282 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 30
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan981
Feb983
Mar642
Apr15
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov216
Dec657

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kutaisi, 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 June 3 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around November 6. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 76% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 7 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around June 2. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 63% 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 15 · 77%Jan 29 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3763
Feb3862
Mar3763
Apr4258
May4951
Jun6040
Jul6931
Aug7624
Sep6931
Oct5743
Nov4951
Dec4159

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 14, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 8 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.38:425:55
Feb10.38:156:33
Mar11.67:297:08
Apr13.16:357:44
May14.45:548:17
Jun15.05:378:42
Jul14.85:518:39
Aug13.76:218:05
Sep12.36:557:12
Oct10.87:296:19
Nov9.68:085:41
Dec9.08:385:33

Sunny days

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

Kutaisi averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Jun 12 to Nov 20. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is March, down near 7 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2518 daysMar 147 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar8Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec9Mixed

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 Kutaisi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around June 3 to September 19. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 87% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 20 to June 2, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 25 · 100%Jul 25 · 9%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr991000
May7125400
Jun133938100
Jul21241424
Aug31437406
Sep34342570
Oct8712100
Nov1000000
Dec1000000

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.

Wind in Kutaisi is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 5 · 10 km/hAug 4 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Kutaisi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Kutaisi 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 Kutaisi for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 18 · 7.1

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
Jan0.2poor
Feb0.8poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr4.8fair
May6.0good
Jun6.3good
Jul6.1good
Aug6.0good
Sep6.9good
Oct6.2good
Nov3.5fair
Dec1.0poor

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 Kutaisi for hot-weather activities is from mid June to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 7.2

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 Kutaisi, 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 August (highs near 29°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 6°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Kutaisi sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kutaisi 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 Kutaisi peaks around June 21 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 21UV 9Jan 10UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Kutaisi

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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
Mar10
Apr6.51
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep61.5
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kutaisi typically lasts about 318 days, from around February 19 to January 2 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 30 to November 20.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1950%Mar 3090%Nov 2090%Jan 250%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4131
Feb4828
Mar7830
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov9211
Dec6031

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. Kutaisi banks about 1,885 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr62
May212
Jun317
Jul406
Aug422
Sep298
Oct158
Nov10
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.

Kutaisi receives about 3.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.5 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 24. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.6 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 185.8 kWhDec 211.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.8Dim
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar3.7Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.0Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Kutaisi?

Kutaisi sits at 42.3°N, 42.7°E, 153 m above sea level, in Georgia. The nearest listed city is Samtredia, 32 km away.

SamtrediaZestaponiZugdidiAkhaltsikheKhashuriPotiMestiaKobuleti

What Kutaisi looks like

Topography around Kutaisi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kutaisi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 245 m around an average of 176 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 822 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,940 m.

The land around Kutaisi is covered by trees (49%) and artificial surfaces (42%) within 3 km, trees (67%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (76%) within 80 km.

3 km
245 m
16 km
822 m
80 km
3,940 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Samtredia 32 km · Zestaponi 33 km · Zugdidi 73 km · Akhaltsikhe 74 km · Khashuri 80 km · Poti 85 km · Mestia 86 km · Kobuleti 90 km

Georgia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 33% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$9,692
2025
Happiness
5.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
71%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2
per 100k, 2019
Road deaths
12.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 541
Religion
Eastern Orthodox Christian 83%Muslim 11%Armenian Apostolic Christian 3%other 1%

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 Kutaisi (42.2679°, 42.6946°, elevation 153 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).