Climate and average weather in Rēzekne

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

Best: late May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Rēzekne typically varies from -7°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -20°C or above 28°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 Rēzekne for warm-weather activities is from late May to early September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
-7°
Wettest
Jun
80 mm
Driest
Feb
39 mm
Rain / yr
673 mm
134 wet days
Daylight
6.5–17.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
156 m
56.5°N
Clearest
May
62% cloud

Rēzekne is state city in eastern Latvia.

Air quality
Moderate
PM2.5 12.5 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
1,544/km²
people per km²
Founded
1773

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

Rēzekne 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 early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Rēzekne, 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 14 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 16°C. The hottest month of the year in Rēzekne is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 19 to March 10, with daily high temperatures below 2°C. The coldest month of the year in Rēzekne is January, with an average low of -7°C and high of -2°C.

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

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-2-6
Feb-2-7
Mar3-3
Apr112
May177
Jun2011
Jul2213
Aug2112
Sep168
Oct93
Nov3-1
Dec-1-4

How hot and cold Rēzekne 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 -14°C (around January 31), with roughly 188 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 79 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-2-2-12-6
Feb-2-2-13-7
Mar33-8-3
Apr1111-12
May171757
Jun20201111
Jul22221313
Aug21211212
Sep161668
Oct9903
Nov33-5-1
Dec-1-1-10-4

Average hourly temperature in Rēzekne

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 -7°C.

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

Rēzekne 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-2° / -7°4211.19.97.20.0
Feb-2° / -7°399.58.19.10.0
Mar / -3°409.96.511.40.1
Apr11° / 439.92.213.92.6
May17° / 6711.10.116.15.2
Jun20° / 11°8013.2017.35.7
Jul22° / 13°7713016.86.3
Aug21° / 12°7511.5014.96.2
Sep16° / 5910.2012.54.7
Oct / 6112.21.410.11.6
Nov / -1°4910.94.67.90.0
Dec-1° / -4°43118.96.70.0

Chance of rain

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

Rēzekne gets about 673 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 2.4 months, from around May 13 to Jul 25, peaking in June at about 49% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 24.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 80 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 39 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 22 · 49%Mar 24 · 30%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb3410
Mar3310
Apr3210
May3611
Jun4513
Jul4113
Aug3812
Sep3410
Oct3912
Nov3711
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Rēzekne collects about 673 mm of rain across 134 wet days — roughly 56 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 80 mm, while February is the driest at just 39 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec423940436780777559614943
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan421110
Feb39108
Mar40107
Apr43102
May67110
Jun80130
Jul77130
Aug75120
Sep59100
Oct61121
Nov49115
Dec43119

Snow in Rēzekne

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.

Rēzekne averages about 42 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 8 to Apr 29 — about 6.7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 10 days of snow and an estimated 31 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 150 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1031
Feb834
Mar721
Apr29
May01
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct17
Nov517
Dec929

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Rēzekne, 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 15 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around September 29. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 43% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 30 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around March 14. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 3 · 45%Nov 20 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1189
Feb1684
Mar2773
Apr3763
May4258
Jun3862
Jul4357
Aug4159
Sep3070
Oct2278
Nov1189
Dec1189

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 20, brings about 17 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 20, only 6 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 11 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.28:443:55
Feb9.17:524:59
Mar11.46:386:03
Apr13.95:137:08
May16.14:048:10
Jun17.33:288:53
Jul16.83:508:43
Aug14.94:477:42
Sep12.55:516:19
Oct10.16:544:57
Nov7.98:023:50
Dec6.78:493:24

Sunny days

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

Rēzekne averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.8 months, from around Mar 9 to Oct 2. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 2 sunny days — about 76% fewer than the April peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 308 daysNov 151 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around June 1 to August 29. 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 August 30 to May 31, 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 30 · 100%Jul 27 · 75%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May93610
Jun731980
Jul4833163
Aug5730102
Sep91810
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Rēzekne is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Sep 21 to Apr 6. The windiest month is December, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 7 to Sep 20, with July the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 28 · 15 km/hJul 25 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun12calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Rēzekne

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 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
Mar0.1poor
Apr2.5poor
May5.2fair
Jun5.7good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.2good
Sep4.7fair
Oct1.6poor
Nov0.0poor
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 Rēzekne for hot-weather activities is from early July to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 30 · 5.0

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 Rēzekne, 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 light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

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

UV index (midday) in Rēzekne 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 Rēzekne peaks around July 11 at about 6 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 0 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 11UV 6Dec 20UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Low
Apr3Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug5High
Sep3Moderate
Oct1Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Rēzekne

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 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended). 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
Mar00
Apr20
May5.50
Jun7.50
Jul7.50
Aug60
Sep2.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Rēzekne 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 Rēzekne is worst in July — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (January, 8 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Rēzekne's WHO annual average of 12.5 µg/m³.

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1717 µg/m³Jan 118 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb10Good
Mar16Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov8Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Rēzekne typically lasts about 220 days, from around April 5 to November 10 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 3 to October 6.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonApr 550%May 390%Oct 690%Nov 1050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1731
Feb1728
Mar2531
Apr6930
May962
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep980
Oct7826
Nov4530
Dec2331

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. Rēzekne banks about 735 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
Jun166
Jul242
Aug207
Sep59
Oct0
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.

Rēzekne receives about 2.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.3 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 12. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.3 kWh/m² — roughly 94% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 35.5 kWhDec 190.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.5Dim
Feb1.1Dim
Mar2.4Moderate
Apr4.0Moderate
May5.2Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.2Bright
Sep2.6Moderate
Oct1.3Dim
Nov0.5Dim
Dec0.3Dim

Where is Rēzekne?

Rēzekne sits at 56.5°N, 27.3°E, 156 m above sea level, in Latvia. The nearest listed city is Madona, 78 km away.

MadonaDaugavpilsJēkabpilsOstrovVisaginasNovopolotskCēsis

Topography around Rēzekne

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Rēzekne has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 63 m around an average of 148 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 117 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 217 m.

The land around Rēzekne is covered by trees (39%), grassland (31%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, trees (48%), grassland (26%) and cropland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) within 80 km.

3 km
63 m
16 km
117 m
80 km
217 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Madona 78 km · Daugavpils 86 km · Jēkabpils 91 km · Ostrov 111 km · Visaginas 116 km · Novopolotsk 134 km · Polotsk 145 km · Cēsis 154 km

Latvia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 57% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$26,312
2025
Happiness
6.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
97%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.5
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
8.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 599
Religion
Lutheran 36%unspecified/none 24%Roman Catholic 20%Orthodox 19%

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 Rēzekne (56.5103°, 27.34°, elevation 156 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).