Climate and average weather in Chełmża

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

Best: mid May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Chełmża typically varies from -3°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -13°C or above 29°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 Chełmża for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Jul
85 mm
Driest
Feb
32 mm
Rain / yr
591 mm
119 wet days
Daylight
7.3–16.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
88 m
53.2°N
Clearest
Aug
59% cloud

Chełmża is city and urban gmina in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Poland.

Density
1,972/km²
people per km²
Founded
1251

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

Chełmża 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 mid May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 21 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Chełmża is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 19 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Chełmża is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 1°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-3
Feb3-3
Mar70
Apr134
May188
Jun2111
Jul2314
Aug2313
Sep1810
Oct125
Nov62
Dec2-2

How hot and cold Chełmża 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 -9°C (around January 28), 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
Feb33-8-3
Mar77-50
Apr131304
May181868
Jun21211111
Jul23231414
Aug23231313
Sep1818810
Oct121225
Nov66-22
Dec22-6-2

Average hourly temperature in Chełmża

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

Chełmża 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°389.957.90.0
Feb / -3°328.34.29.40.0
Mar / -0°399.72.511.50.8
Apr13° / 369.30.513.63.7
May18° / 6111.5015.65.6
Jun21° / 11°6411.6016.66.1
Jul23° / 14°8512.2016.26.5
Aug23° / 13°6310.1014.56.8
Sep18° / 10°518.9012.45.8
Oct12° / 449.20.110.33.3
Nov / 379.11.58.40.6
Dec / -2°409.53.87.40.0

Chance of rain

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

Chełmża gets about 591 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 3.1 months, from around May 5 to Aug 7, peaking in June at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 21.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 85 mm over about 12 wet days; February is the driest, with 32 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 22 · 40%Sep 21 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb318
Mar3110
Apr319
May3612
Jun3912
Jul3912
Aug3310
Sep309
Oct299
Nov319
Dec3110

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Chełmża collects about 591 mm of rain across 119 wet days — roughly 49 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 85 mm, while February is the driest at just 32 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec383239366164856351443740
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan38105
Feb3284
Mar39103
Apr3691
May61120
Jun64120
Jul85120
Aug63100
Sep5190
Oct4490
Nov3792
Dec40104

Snow in Chełmża

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.

Chełmża averages about 18 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 4 to Apr 16 — about 5.4 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 19 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 66 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 16
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan516
Feb419
Mar310
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov26
Dec414

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Chełmża, 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 25 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around October 15. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 47% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 16 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around March 24. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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 8 · 49%Nov 17 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2179
Feb2278
Mar3070
Apr4258
May4456
Jun4357
Jul4456
Aug4753
Sep3862
Oct3268
Nov1981
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 14, brings about 16 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 7 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 9 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan7.98:003:49
Feb9.47:164:44
Mar11.56:115:40
Apr13.64:556:36
May15.63:547:30
Jun16.63:258:06
Jul16.23:447:59
Aug14.54:337:07
Sep12.45:285:52
Oct10.36:224:39
Nov8.47:213:41
Dec7.48:023:21

Sunny days

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

Chełmża averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.8 months, from around Mar 23 to Oct 14. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 8 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 62% fewer than the April peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 279 daysNov 193 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
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 Chełmża, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around June 3 to September 7. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 23% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 8 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 27 · 100%Jul 30 · 70%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May90910
Jun692281
Jul4235194
Aug4634173
Sep831430
Oct98200
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 Chełmża is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Oct 2 to Apr 7. The windiest month is January, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 8 to Oct 1, with August the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 4 · 16 km/hAug 2 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun12light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug12calm
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Chełmża

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 8 · 6.9

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
Apr3.7fair
May5.6good
Jun6.1good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.8good
Sep5.8good
Oct3.3poor
Nov0.7poor
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 Chełmża for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 4 · 5.9

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 Chełmża, 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, Chełmża sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Chełmża 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 Chełmża peaks around June 18 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 0 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJun 18UV 6Dec 19UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low

Average hourly UV index in Chełmża

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 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 2 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
Mar00
Apr40
May6.50
Jun7.52
Jul70
Aug6.50
Sep3.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Chełmża typically lasts about 253 days, from around March 22 to November 29 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 25 to October 17.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2250%Apr 2590%Oct 1790%Nov 2950%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2831
Feb3028
Mar4731
Apr8224
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9116
Nov6830
Dec3831

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. Chełmża banks about 918 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
Apr4
May93
Jun184
Jul261
Aug252
Sep117
Oct7
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.

Chełmża receives about 2.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.5 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 15. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.5 kWh/m² — roughly 91% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 35.5 kWhDec 190.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.7Dim
Feb1.4Dim
Mar2.6Moderate
Apr4.3Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.4Bright
Sep2.9Moderate
Oct1.7Dim
Nov0.8Dim
Dec0.5Dim

Where is Chełmża?

Chełmża sits at 53.2°N, 18.6°E, 88 m above sea level, in Poland. The nearest listed city is Torun, 19 km away.

BydgoszczInowrocław

Topography around Chełmża

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chełmża has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 26 m around an average of 91 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 89 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 204 m.

The land around Chełmża is covered by cropland (65%) within 3 km, cropland (75%) within 16 km, and cropland (54%) and trees (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
26 m
16 km
89 m
80 km
204 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Torun 19 km · Chełmno 22 km · Świecie 27 km · Solec Kujawski 28 km · Fordon 29 km · Grudziądz 35 km · Bydgoszcz 40 km · Inowrocław 49 km

Poland travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 52% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$28,420
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
89%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
9.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 600
Religion
Roman Catholic 71%refused to answer 21%no religion 7%

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 Chełmża (53.1846°, 18.6047°, elevation 88 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).