Jelenia Góra weather in August

In August, Jelenia Góra sees average daytime highs of 22°C and overnight lows near 12°C, with 93 mm of rain across 12 wet days and about 14.3 hours of daylight. It is the 2nd-warmest and 3rd-wettest month of the year here.

Highs ease over the month, from about 23°C in the first days to 20°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 28% of the time in August, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 15 h 12 min at the start of August to 13 h 24 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Jelenia Góra's 1st-clearest and 12th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Jelenia Góra's year-round climate.

Daytime high
22°
2nd warmest
Overnight low
12°
11th coldest
Rainfall
93 mm
12 wet days
Daylight
14 h 24 min
4:50 AM – 7:12 PM
Cloud cover
58%
1st clearest
Wind
10 km/h
12th windiest
Solar energy
4.51 kWh/m²
Travel score
6.4
out of 10

Jelenia Góra is city with powiat rights of Poland.

Air quality
Elevated
PM2.5 20.1 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
708/km²
people per km²
Founded
~950 CE

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

Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs ease over the month, from about 23°C in the first days to 20°C by the end.

A typical August day in Jelenia Góra reaches about 22°C in the afternoon and slips back to 12°C overnight — a 10°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 16°C and 27°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs on par with July and about 5°C warmer than September.

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Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
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How August really feels in Jelenia Góra

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
0
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

August sits comfortably in between — no days that feel dangerously hot or drop to a hard freeze once humidity and wind are folded in.

Jelenia Góra weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 2nd-warmest and 3rd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -4°6213.18.48.20.0
Feb / -4°5011.67.99.70.0
Mar / -1°6413.56.411.50.6
Apr12° / 5110.61.913.53.2
May17° / 8513.70.115.34.9
Jun20° / 11°9513.8016.25.6
Jul22° / 13°12014.5015.86.0
Aug22° / 12°9312014.36.4
Sep17° / 7411.3012.45.2
Oct12° / 5911.10.510.43.0
Nov / 5411.13.78.70.6
Dec / -3°5612.27.37.80.0

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 28% of the time in August, the clearest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 22% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 50%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
15347
25347
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Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Jelenia Góra gets around 93 mm of rain over 12 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 39% and peaks near 41% on the wettest days.

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Rain chance (%)
139
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739
839
939
1039
1139
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1438
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Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the dry band about 55% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
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2473419
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22573211
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2561309
2662299
2764288
2866277
2967267
3069256
3171245

Wind in August

Winds average 10 km/h in August, the calmest month.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 9 km/h on the calmest days to 11 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 15 h 12 min at the start of August to 13 h 24 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 108 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 4:28 AM to 5:14 AM, and sunset from 7:39 PM to 6:40 PM.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AM151015202531
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
115.24:287:39
215.14:297:37
315.14:307:36
415.04:327:34
515.04:337:32
614.94:357:31
714.94:367:29
814.84:387:27
914.84:407:25
1014.74:417:23
1114.64:437:22
1214.64:447:20
1314.54:467:18
1414.54:477:16
1514.44:497:14
1614.44:507:12
1714.34:527:10
1814.24:547:08
1914.24:557:06
2014.14:577:04
2114.14:587:02
2214.05:007:00
2313.95:026:57
2413.95:036:55
2513.85:056:53
2613.75:066:51
2713.75:086:49
2813.65:106:47
2913.65:116:44
3013.55:136:42
3113.45:146:40

Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 4.51 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 0.7 kWh/m² to a high of 5.29 kWh/m² in June across the year — August's 4.51 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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114.7Bright
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204.4Bright
214.3Bright
224.3Bright
234.2Bright
244.2Bright
254.1Bright
264.0Bright
274.0Moderate
283.9Moderate
293.9Moderate
303.8Moderate
313.8Moderate
Planning a trip in August

Is August a good time to visit Jelenia Góra?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

6.4
Sightseeing
1st-best month of the year
4.2
Beach & pool
1st-best month of the year

August is a reasonable time to visit Jelenia Góra for sightseeing.

What to pack for Jelenia Góra in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, Jelenia Góra sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

rain gearsun protection

UV index in Jelenia Góra in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 6 — enough to warrant sun protection. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Jelenia Góra peaks around June 20 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 20UV 7Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Air quality in Jelenia Góra in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Jelenia Góra is worst in June — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Jelenia Góra's WHO annual average of 20.1 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1724 µg/m³Dec 1215 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar23Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Location & terrain

Where is Jelenia Góra?

Jelenia Góra sits at 50.9°N, 15.7°E, 331 m above sea level, in Poland. The nearest listed city is Kamienna Góra, 25 km away.

LubańTrutnovWałbrzychŚwiebodzice

Topography around Jelenia Góra

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jelenia Góra has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 205 m around an average of 368 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,238 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,572 m.

The land around Jelenia Góra is covered by trees (51%), grassland (23%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, trees (57%) and grassland (25%) within 16 km, and trees (45%) and cropland (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
205 m
16 km
1,238 m
80 km
1,572 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
August weather nearby: Kamienna Góra 25 km · Złotoryja 29 km · Jawor 37 km · Boguszów-Gorce 37 km · Lubań 39 km · Trutnov 40 km · Wałbrzych 42 km · Świebodzice 42 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 Jelenia Góra (50.8997°, 15.729°, elevation 331 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).