Climate and average weather in Rustavi

In Rustavi, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Rustavi typically varies from -3°C to 32°C, and is rarely below -7°C or above 38°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jul
32°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Apr
52 mm
Driest
Aug
15 mm
Rain / yr
349 mm
74 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
345 m
41.6°N
Clearest
Aug
34% cloud

Rustavi is city in Kvemo Kartli, Georgia.

Density
2,137/km²
people per km²
Founded
1948

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

Rustavi 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 September to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 30 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Rustavi is July, with an average high of 32°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 21 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 11°C. The coldest month of the year in Rustavi is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 6°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan6-3
Feb8-2
Mar133
Apr188
May2413
Jun2918
Jul3221
Aug3221
Sep2716
Oct2010
Nov133
Dec7-2

How hot and cold Rustavi 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 hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Rustavi feels like about 33°C (around July 29). About 39 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -6°C (around January 20), with roughly 111 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan66-5-3
Feb88-4-2
Mar131313
Apr181878
May24241313
Jun29291818
Jul32322121
Aug32322121
Sep27271616
Oct20201010
Nov131323
Dec77-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Rustavi

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Rustavi 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°194.92.89.30.7
Feb / -2°225.33.610.31.4
Mar13° / 408.11.611.73.5
Apr18° / 529.70.413.15.8
May24° / 13°459.9014.36.8
Jun29° / 18°266.20156.1
Jul32° / 21°163.5014.74.7
Aug32° / 21°153.6013.74.8
Sep27° / 16°214.1012.37.4
Oct20° / 10°377.30.110.96.9
Nov13° / 346.10.99.73.9
Dec / -2°2252.191.2

Chance of rain

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

Rustavi gets about 349 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.6 months, from around Feb 26 to Jun 14, peaking in May at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 22.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 52 mm over about 10 wet days; August is the driest, with 15 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 1 · 36%Jul 22 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb195
Mar268
Apr3210
May3110
Jun206
Jul124
Aug114
Sep154
Oct227
Nov216
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Rustavi collects about 349 mm of rain across 74 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 52 mm, while August is the driest at just 15 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec192240524526161521373422
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1953
Feb2254
Mar4082
Apr52100
May45100
Jun2660
Jul1640
Aug1540
Sep2140
Oct3770
Nov3461
Dec2252

Snow in Rustavi

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.

Rustavi averages about 12 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 8 to Apr 8 — about 5 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 14 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 44 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 7
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan39
Feb414
Mar26
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov13
Dec210

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Rustavi, 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 2 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 13. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 81% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 14 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around June 1. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 56% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 22 · 82%Apr 24 · 41%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb5149
Mar4753
Apr4456
May5149
Jun7327
Jul8119
Aug8119
Sep7228
Oct5941
Nov5644
Dec5644

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 12, brings about 15 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.38:305:48
Feb10.38:056:25
Mar11.77:206:59
Apr13.16:277:34
May14.35:468:06
Jun15.05:318:30
Jul14.75:448:28
Aug13.76:147:55
Sep12.36:467:03
Oct10.97:196:11
Nov9.77:575:34
Dec9.08:265:26

Sunny days

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

Rustavi averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 13. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 8 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2221 daysApr 307 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun15Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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 Rustavi, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.8 months, from around June 19 to September 10. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 19% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 11 to June 18, 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 28 · 100%Jul 23 · 77%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May89110
Jun61354
Jul315019
Aug364915
Sep69283
Oct9640
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.

Wind in Rustavi is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 21 · 7 km/hNov 1 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Rustavi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Rustavi is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 times of year to visit Rustavi for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to mid June and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 23 · 7.8

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
Jan0.7poor
Feb1.5poor
Mar3.6fair
Apr5.8good
May6.7good
Jun6.1good
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep7.3good
Oct6.9good
Nov3.9fair
Dec1.3poor

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 Rustavi for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 5 · 8.3

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 Rustavi, 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 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 6°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Rustavi sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Rustavi 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 Rustavi peaks around June 23 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 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 23UV 9Jan 10UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Rustavi

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
Mar20
Apr6.50
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep61.5
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Rustavi 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 Rustavi is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (October, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJul 1619 µg/m³Oct 2311 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov11Good
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Rustavi typically lasts about 276 days, from around February 28 to November 30 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 28 to November 8.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2850%Mar 2890%Nov 890%Nov 3050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1731
Feb3028
Mar7627
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov7722
Dec3031

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. Rustavi banks about 2,270 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr88
May256
Jun402
Jul515
Aug508
Sep340
Oct156
Nov4
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.

Rustavi receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 15. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.9 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 246.4 kWhDec 121.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.2Moderate
Feb3.1Moderate
Mar4.0Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.9Dim

Where is Rustavi?

Rustavi sits at 41.6°N, 45.0°E, 345 m above sea level, in Georgia. The nearest listed city is Marneuli, 17 km away.

TelaviAlaverdiGazakhIjevanGori

Topography around Rustavi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Rustavi has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 410 m around an average of 388 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 544 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,375 m.

The land around Rustavi is covered by grassland (42%) and artificial surfaces (29%) within 3 km, grassland (47%) and cropland (31%) within 16 km, and trees (40%) and grassland (39%) within 80 km.

3 km
410 m
16 km
544 m
80 km
2,375 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Marneuli 17 km · Tbilisi 19 km · Telavi 57 km · Alaverdi 58 km · Gazakh 61 km · Ijevan 77 km · Gori 86 km · Dilijan 92 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 Rustavi (41.5627°, 44.9787°, elevation 345 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).