Climate and average weather in Tbilisi

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

Best: early June to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tbilisi typically varies from -5°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -12°C or above 33°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tbilisi for warm-weather activities is from early June to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
May
112 mm
Driest
Jan
25 mm
Rain / yr
691 mm
111 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
433 m
41.7°N
Clearest
Jul
39% cloud

Tbilisi is capital and the largest city of Georgia (country).

Air quality
Elevated
PM2.5 20 µg/m³ · 2017
Density
1,458/km²
people per km²
Founded
~455 CE

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

Tbilisi 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 June to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Tbilisi, 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 June 2 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Tbilisi is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 22 to March 9, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Tbilisi is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 3°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3-5
Feb4-4
Mar90
Apr155
May1910
Jun2414
Jul2717
Aug2817
Sep2312
Oct177
Nov101
Dec4-3

How hot and cold Tbilisi 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 25), with roughly 142 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)
Jan33-8-5
Feb44-7-4
Mar99-30
Apr141535
May1919910
Jun24241414
Jul27271717
Aug28281617
Sep23231212
Oct171767
Nov910-11
Dec44-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Tbilisi

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

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

Tbilisi 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 / -5°256.45.69.30.0
Feb / -4°306.75.710.30.1
Mar / -0°6411.34.311.71.7
Apr15° / 10514.31.113.13.8
May19° / 10°11215.8014.35.3
Jun24° / 14°7511.20156.8
Jul27° / 17°477.6014.77.0
Aug28° / 17°467.3013.76.9
Sep23° / 12°518012.37.2
Oct17° / 669.10.110.95.5
Nov10° / 437.12.19.62.2
Dec / -3°296.24.190.0

Chance of rain

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

Tbilisi gets about 691 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 3.9 months, from around Mar 4 to Jun 29, peaking in April at about 56% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 12.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 112 mm over about 16 wet days; January is the driest, with 25 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 30 · 56%Jan 12 · 18%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb257
Mar3611
Apr4814
May5016
Jun3811
Jul248
Aug247
Sep278
Oct299
Nov257
Dec206

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tbilisi collects about 691 mm of rain across 111 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 112 mm, while January is the driest at just 25 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec25306410511275474651664329
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2566
Feb3076
Mar64114
Apr105141
May112160
Jun75110
Jul4780
Aug4670
Sep5180
Oct6690
Nov4372
Dec2964

Snow in Tbilisi

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.

Tbilisi averages about 23 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 28 to Apr 28 — about 6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 18 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 106 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan618
Feb626
Mar423
Apr17
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov210
Dec421

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tbilisi, 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 6 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 17. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 10 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around June 5. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 61% 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 2 · 79%Apr 27 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb4654
Mar4258
Apr3961
May4357
Jun6634
Jul7723
Aug7723
Sep6634
Oct5644
Nov5347
Dec5149

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 11, 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)
Jan9.38:315:49
Feb10.38:056:25
Mar11.77:217:00
Apr13.16:277:35
May14.35:478:07
Jun15.05:318:31
Jul14.75:448:29
Aug13.76:147:56
Sep12.36:477:03
Oct10.97:206:11
Nov9.67:585:34
Dec9.08:275:27

Sunny days

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

Tbilisi averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Jun 12 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 7 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 518 daysApr 296 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun12Mixed
Jul17Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around June 17 to September 5. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 28% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 6 to June 16, 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 27 · 100%Jul 23 · 68%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May891000
Jun474760
Jul2151271
Aug3448180
Sep752320
Oct99100
Nov100000
Dec100000

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 Tbilisi 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 20 · 8 km/hNov 17 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Tbilisi

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Tbilisi's rainy season runs March–June, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Tbilisi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 8 · 7.6

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.7poor
Apr3.8fair
May5.3fair
Jun6.8good
Jul7.0good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.2good
Oct5.5fair
Nov2.2poor
Dec0.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 7.8

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 Tbilisi, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 3°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Tbilisi sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi

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 Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi is worst in July — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 13 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Tbilisi's WHO annual average of 20 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJul 1526 µg/m³Dec 1213 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb18Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May26Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul26Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Tbilisi typically lasts about 249 days, from around March 17 to November 20 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 11 to October 30.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1750%Apr 1190%Oct 3090%Nov 2050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1431
Feb1828
Mar5031
Apr9210
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct982
Nov6130
Dec2131

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. Tbilisi banks about 1,449 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr11
May138
Jun265
Jul370
Aug374
Sep228
Oct63
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.

Tbilisi receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.9 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 17 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 246.5 kWhDec 141.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.1Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.9Dim

Where is Tbilisi?

Tbilisi sits at 41.7°N, 44.8°E, 433 m above sea level, in Georgia. The nearest listed city is Rustavi, 19 km away.

TelaviAlaverdiGoriGazakhTs’khinvaliIjevan

What Tbilisi looks like

Topography around Tbilisi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tbilisi has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 353 m around an average of 486 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,155 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,952 m.

The land around Tbilisi is covered by artificial surfaces (56%) and trees (23%) within 3 km, grassland (41%) and trees (24%) within 16 km, and trees (43%) and grassland (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
353 m
16 km
1,155 m
80 km
2,952 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Rustavi 19 km · Marneuli 23 km · Telavi 58 km · Alaverdi 67 km · Gori 68 km · Gazakh 80 km · Ts’khinvali 93 km · Ijevan 94 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 Tbilisi (41.6914°, 44.8341°, elevation 433 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).