Climate and average weather in Krosno

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

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Krosno typically varies from -5°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 30°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 Krosno for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
24°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jul
109 mm
Driest
Dec
48 mm
Rain / yr
814 mm
144 wet days
Daylight
7.9–16.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
278 m
49.7°N
Clearest
Aug
55% cloud

Krosno is city with powiat rights of Poland.

Air quality
Elevated
PM2.5 20.5 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
1,099/km²
people per km²
Founded
1342

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

Krosno 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 late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Krosno, 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 16 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Krosno is July, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 23 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Krosno is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 0°C.

Days typically run about 8°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)
Jan0-4
Feb2-4
Mar70
Apr144
May199
Jun2212
Jul2414
Aug2413
Sep199
Oct135
Nov71
Dec1-3

How hot and cold Krosno 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 -11°C (around January 27), with roughly 160 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 15 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)
Jan00-10-4
Feb22-9-4
Mar77-50
Apr141414
May191979
Jun22221212
Jul24241414
Aug24241313
Sep181989
Oct131325
Nov77-21
Dec11-8-3

Average hourly temperature in Krosno

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

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

Krosno 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°4911.88.88.40.0
Feb / -4°4911.48.49.80.0
Mar / -0°5111.54.911.50.9
Apr14° / 6011.41.313.43.8
May19° / 9314.5015.15.4
Jun22° / 12°9013.40166.0
Jul24° / 14°10914.9015.76.2
Aug24° / 13°7511.6014.26.7
Sep19° / 7711012.45.7
Oct13° / 6210.30.410.53.5
Nov / 5210.63.78.80.8
Dec / -3°4811.27.180.0

Chance of rain

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

Krosno gets about 814 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 3.4 months, from around Apr 30 to Aug 10, peaking in July at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 8.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 109 mm over about 15 wet days; December is the driest, with 48 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 16 · 50%Oct 8 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3812
Feb4111
Mar3712
Apr3811
May4615
Jun4613
Jul4715
Aug3812
Sep3611
Oct3310
Nov3511
Dec3711

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Krosno collects about 814 mm of rain across 144 wet days — roughly 68 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 109 mm, while December is the driest at just 48 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4949516093901097577625248
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan49129
Feb49118
Mar51125
Apr60111
May93150
Jun90130
Jul109150
Aug75120
Sep77110
Oct62100
Nov52114
Dec48117

Snow in Krosno

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.

Krosno averages about 35 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 19 to Apr 26 — about 6.2 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 40 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 141 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 4
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan928
Feb840
Mar519
Apr17
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct04
Nov416
Dec727

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Krosno, 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 April 13 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around October 28. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 55% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 29 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 12. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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 16 · 57%Dec 13 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb2476
Mar3268
Apr4060
May4357
Jun4753
Jul4852
Aug5545
Sep4258
Oct3961
Nov2674
Dec1882

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 15, brings about 16 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 7 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.47:323:53
Feb9.86:544:41
Mar11.55:565:29
Apr13.44:496:18
May15.13:557:03
Jun16.03:317:35
Jul15.73:487:29
Aug14.24:296:45
Sep12.45:165:38
Oct10.56:034:32
Nov8.86:543:42
Dec8.07:313:27

Sunny days

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

Krosno 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 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.7 months, from around Apr 12 to Nov 1. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 3 sunny days — about 70% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 1510 daysDec 133 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep8Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
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 Krosno, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 3 to September 4. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 32% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 5 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 · 59%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May871210
Jun5430152
Jul3534265
Aug4134223
Sep811630
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 Krosno is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Oct 11 to Apr 9. The windiest month is December, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 10 to Oct 10, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 27 · 15 km/hAug 4 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Krosno

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 18 · 6.8

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
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.0poor
Apr3.8fair
May5.4fair
Jun6.0good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.7good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.5fair
Nov0.8poor
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 Krosno for hot-weather activities is from late June to late August, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 11 · 5.8

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 Krosno, 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 24°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 0°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Krosno sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 14°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Krosno 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 Krosno peaks around June 23 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 22 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 23UV 7Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Krosno

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 3.5 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
Mar30
Apr5.50
May70
Jun83.5
Jul7.53.5
Aug6.51.5
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Krosno 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 Krosno is worst in June — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (December, 13 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Krosno's WHO annual average of 20.5 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 1927 µg/m³Dec 1613 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr24Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun27Moderate
Jul26Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Krosno typically lasts about 250 days, from around March 20 to November 24 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 19 to October 15.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2050%Apr 1990%Oct 1590%Nov 2450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2231
Feb2528
Mar4831
Apr8620
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8917
Nov6230
Dec2931

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. Krosno banks about 978 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr10
May110
Jun206
Jul269
Aug258
Sep116
Oct8
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.

Krosno receives about 3.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 86% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 95.3 kWhDec 190.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.0Dim
Feb1.7Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.3Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.2Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.1Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Krosno?

Krosno sits at 49.7°N, 21.8°E, 278 m above sea level, in Poland. The nearest listed city is Jasło, 22 km away.

RopczyceRzeszówGorliceDębicaŁańcutBardejov

Topography around Krosno

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Krosno has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 79 m around an average of 280 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 384 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,098 m.

The land around Krosno is covered by trees (28%), grassland (27%) and artificial surfaces (24%) within 3 km, trees (44%), cropland (33%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
79 m
16 km
384 m
80 km
1,098 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Jasło 22 km · Sanok 35 km · Ropczyce 42 km · Rzeszów 42 km · Gorlice 44 km · Dębica 48 km · Łańcut 54 km · Bardejov 57 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 Krosno (49.6887°, 21.7706°, elevation 278 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).