Climate and average weather in Brezno

In Brezno, the summers are mild, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Brezno typically varies from -8°C to 22°C, and is rarely below -18°C or above 27°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 Brezno for warm-weather activities is from early June to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
22°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
Jul
112 mm
Driest
Jan
43 mm
Rain / yr
888 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
8.0–16.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
492 m
48.8°N
Clearest
Aug
55% cloud

Brezno is town in Slovakia.

Density
163/km²
people per km²
Founded
1265

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

Brezno 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 September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 20 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Brezno is July, with an average high of 22°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 21 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 4°C. The coldest month of the year in Brezno is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -1°C.

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

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-1-8
Feb1-7
Mar6-3
Apr122
May176
Jun209
Jul2211
Aug2211
Sep177
Oct113
Nov5-1
Dec0-6

How hot and cold Brezno 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 -12°C (around January 28), with roughly 178 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 52 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-1-1-11-8
Feb11-10-7
Mar66-6-3
Apr1212-12
May171756
Jun202099
Jul22221111
Aug22221111
Sep171767
Oct111113
Nov55-3-1
Dec00-9-6

Average hourly temperature in Brezno

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 -8°C.

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

Brezno 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-1° / -8°4398.68.50.0
Feb / -7°479.48.49.80.0
Mar / -3°539.95.811.60.5
Apr12° / 6912.11.913.43.0
May17° / 10315.80.1154.6
Jun20° / 11015.5015.95.4
Jul22° / 11°11215.3015.55.8
Aug22° / 11°9713.5014.26.2
Sep17° / 7611.3012.45.1
Oct11° / 6710.2110.52.7
Nov / -1°6210.23.98.90.4
Dec-0° / -6°519.98.38.10.0

Chance of rain

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

Brezno gets about 888 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 5.2 months, from around Apr 9 to Sep 13, peaking in June at about 54% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 13.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 112 mm over about 15 wet days; January is the driest, with 43 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 4 · 54%Jan 13 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb349
Mar3210
Apr4112
May5016
Jun5116
Jul5015
Aug4414
Sep3811
Oct3210
Nov3410
Dec3110

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Brezno collects about 888 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 74 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 112 mm, while January is the driest at just 43 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec434753691031101129776676251
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4399
Feb4798
Mar53106
Apr69122
May103160
Jun110160
Jul112150
Aug97140
Sep76110
Oct67101
Nov62104
Dec51108

Snow in Brezno

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.

Brezno averages about 38 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 6 to Apr 29 — about 6.8 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 44 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 160 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 10
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan930
Feb844
Mar624
Apr28
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct15
Nov417
Dec834

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Brezno, 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 16 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around October 13. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 56% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 14 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around March 26. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 72% 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 · 58%Nov 22 · 25%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3367
Feb3268
Mar3862
Apr4159
May4159
Jun4159
Jul5149
Aug5644
Sep4555
Oct3961
Nov2872
Dec2872

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 19, brings about 16 hours of light; the shortest, around December 19, only 8 hours — a swing of roughly 8 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.57:374:05
Feb9.87:014:51
Mar11.66:045:38
Apr13.44:586:25
May15.04:077:09
Jun15.93:447:40
Jul15.54:007:34
Aug14.24:406:51
Sep12.45:255:46
Oct10.56:114:42
Nov8.97:003:54
Dec8.17:363:40

Sunny days

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

Brezno averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jun 24 to Nov 1. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 5 sunny days — about 45% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 1810 daysNov 224 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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 Brezno, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 10% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 16 · 100%Jul 30 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun72244
Jul553510
Aug57357
Sep9190
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

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 Brezno is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 10 · 8 km/hDec 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Brezno

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 14 · 6.3

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
Mar0.5poor
Apr2.9poor
May4.6fair
Jun5.4fair
Jul5.8good
Aug6.1good
Sep5.0fair
Oct2.7poor
Nov0.4poor
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 Brezno 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 7 · 4.5

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 Brezno, 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 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, Brezno sees daytime highs around 22°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Brezno 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 Brezno peaks around July 12 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near January 1 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 highHighModerateLowJul 12UV 8Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Brezno

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 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 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
Mar3.50
Apr6.50
May70.5
Jun84
Jul84.5
Aug73
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Brezno typically lasts about 220 days, from around April 6 to November 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 2 to October 2.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonJan 2710%Apr 650%May 290%Oct 290%Nov 1150%Jan 1410%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1031
Feb1328
Mar2631
Apr6730
May960
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep970
Oct7630
Nov4430
Dec1531

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. Brezno banks about 623 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
May41
Jun139
Jul196
Aug192
Sep54
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.

Brezno receives about 3.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.9 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 84% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 305.6 kWhDec 160.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.2Dim
Feb2.0Moderate
Mar3.3Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep3.3Moderate
Oct2.0Moderate
Nov1.2Dim
Dec0.9Dim

Where is Brezno?

Brezno sits at 48.8°N, 19.6°E, 492 m above sea level, in Slovakia. The nearest listed city is Liptovský Mikuláš, 31 km away.

Liptovský MikulášBanská BystricaRužomberokZvolenDolný KubínLučenecRimavská SobotaPoprad

Topography around Brezno

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Brezno has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 464 m around an average of 589 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,609 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,418 m.

The land around Brezno is covered by trees (37%), grassland (27%) and cropland (27%) within 3 km, trees (77%) within 16 km, and trees (65%) within 80 km.

3 km
464 m
16 km
1,609 m
80 km
2,418 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Liptovský Mikuláš 31 km · Banská Bystrica 36 km · Ružomberok 38 km · Zvolen 44 km · Dolný Kubín 51 km · Lučenec 53 km · Rimavská Sobota 55 km · Poprad 56 km

Slovakia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 58% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$28,544
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
6.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 606
Religion
Roman Catholic 56%none 24%Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession 5%Greek Catholic 4%

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 Brezno (48.8043°, 19.6363°, elevation 492 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).