Climate and average weather in Liptovský Mikuláš

In Liptovský Mikuláš, the summers are mild, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: early June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Liptovský Mikuláš typically varies from -8°C to 21°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 Liptovský Mikuláš for warm-weather activities is from early June to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
21°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
Jul
115 mm
Driest
Jan
51 mm
Rain / yr
904 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
8.0–16.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
577 m
49.1°N
Clearest
Aug
57% cloud

Liptovský Mikuláš is town in Slovakia.

Density
430/km²
people per km²
Founded
1286

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

Liptovský Mikuláš 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 Liptovský Mikuláš, 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 21 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 16°C. The hottest month of the year in Liptovský Mikuláš is July, with an average high of 21°C and low of 11°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 22 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 3°C. The coldest month of the year in Liptovský Mikuláš is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -2°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-2-8
Feb0-7
Mar5-4
Apr111
May166
Jun199
Jul2111
Aug2111
Sep167
Oct103
Nov4-1
Dec-1-6

How hot and cold Liptovský Mikuláš 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 -13°C (around January 28), with roughly 185 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 67 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-2-2-12-8
Feb00-11-7
Mar45-7-4
Apr1111-21
May161646
Jun191989
Jul21211111
Aug21211011
Sep161657
Oct101013
Nov44-4-1
Dec-1-1-10-6

Average hourly temperature in Liptovský Mikuláš

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 21°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Liptovský Mikuláš 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° / -8°5110.610.68.50.0
Feb / -7°5210.810.39.80.0
Mar / -4°6011.68.211.60.2
Apr11° / 67133.413.42.4
May16° / 9916.10.2154.2
Jun19° / 11215.8015.95.2
Jul21° / 11°11515.7015.65.6
Aug21° / 11°9413.1014.26.0
Sep16° / 7711.6012.44.7
Oct10° / 6610.41.710.52.4
Nov / -1°5711.15.98.90.2
Dec-1° / -6°5411.510.48.10.0

Chance of rain

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

Liptovský Mikuláš gets about 904 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 4.3 months, from around Apr 5 to Aug 12, peaking in June at about 54% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 18.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 115 mm over about 16 wet days; January is the driest, with 51 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 6 · 54%Jan 18 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3411
Feb3911
Mar3712
Apr4413
May5116
Jun5216
Jul5116
Aug4213
Sep3912
Oct3410
Nov3711
Dec3712

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Liptovský Mikuláš collects about 904 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 75 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 115 mm, while January is the driest at just 51 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec51526067991121159477665754
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan511111
Feb521110
Mar60128
Apr67133
May99160
Jun112160
Jul115160
Aug94130
Sep77120
Oct66102
Nov57116
Dec541210

Snow in Liptovský Mikuláš

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.

Liptovský Mikuláš averages about 51 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 2 to May 3 — about 7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 53 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 226 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 9
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1140
Feb1053
Mar838
Apr315
May02
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct29
Nov626
Dec1044

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Liptovský Mikuláš, 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 16 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 52% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 3 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 15. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% 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 · 55%Nov 24 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2872
Feb2872
Mar3367
Apr3763
May3862
Jun3862
Jul4852
Aug5248
Sep4060
Oct3466
Nov2476
Dec2476

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 hours of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 8 hours — a swing of roughly 8 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.57:384:04
Feb9.87:014:51
Mar11.66:055:38
Apr13.44:586:25
May15.04:067:10
Jun15.93:437:41
Jul15.63:597:36
Aug14.24:396:52
Sep12.45:255:47
Oct10.56:114:42
Nov8.97:013:53
Dec8.17:373:38

Sunny days

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

Liptovský Mikuláš averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 9 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jun 24 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 4 sunny days — about 51% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 149 daysNov 244 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep7Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
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 Liptovský Mikuláš, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9820
Jun78202
Jul63325
Aug65314
Sep9460
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 Liptovský Mikuláš is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 5 · 8 km/hAug 6 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Liptovský Mikuláš

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Liptovský Mikuláš 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 Liptovský Mikuláš 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 13 · 6.2

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
Mar0.2poor
Apr2.4poor
May4.2fair
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.6good
Aug6.0good
Sep4.6fair
Oct2.4poor
Nov0.3poor
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 Liptovský Mikuláš for hot-weather activities is from mid July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 4.0

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 Liptovský Mikuláš, 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 21°C), the essentials are 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, Liptovský Mikuláš sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Liptovský Mikuláš 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 Liptovský Mikuláš peaks around July 10 at about 8 (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 highHighModerateLowJul 10UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Liptovský Mikuláš

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
Apr60
May71
Jun84.5
Jul84.5
Aug73
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Liptovský Mikuláš typically lasts about 211 days, from around April 11 to November 7 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 4 to October 3.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2110%Apr 1150%May 490%Oct 390%Nov 750%Jan 1010%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan931
Feb1028
Mar2131
Apr6130
May952
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep980
Oct7429
Nov3930
Dec1331

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. Liptovský Mikuláš banks about 537 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May23
Jun120
Jul178
Aug175
Sep41
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.

Liptovský Mikuláš receives about 3.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.9 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 16. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.2 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 83% less than the July peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJul 15.4 kWhDec 180.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.2Dim
Feb2.0Moderate
Mar3.2Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.2Moderate
Oct2.0Moderate
Nov1.2Dim
Dec0.9Dim

Where is Liptovský Mikuláš?

Liptovský Mikuláš sits at 49.1°N, 19.6°E, 577 m above sea level, in Slovakia. The nearest listed city is Ružomberok, 23 km away.

Dolný KubínBreznoZakopanePopradMartinBanská BystricaNowy Targ

Topography around Liptovský Mikuláš

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Liptovský Mikuláš has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 185 m around an average of 617 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,670 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,376 m.

The land around Liptovský Mikuláš is covered by cropland (43%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, trees (51%), grassland (22%) and cropland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (69%) within 80 km.

3 km
185 m
16 km
1,670 m
80 km
2,376 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ružomberok 23 km · Dolný Kubín 27 km · Brezno 31 km · Zakopane 34 km · Poprad 49 km · Martin 51 km · Banská Bystrica 51 km · Nowy Targ 53 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 Liptovský Mikuláš (49.0806°, 19.6222°, elevation 577 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).