Climate and average weather in Kremenets

In Kremenets, 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 Kremenets typically varies from -5°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 31°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 Kremenets for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
24°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jul
107 mm
Driest
Jan
38 mm
Rain / yr
726 mm
135 wet days
Daylight
7.8–16.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
342 m
50.1°N
Clearest
Aug
54% cloud

Kremenets is city and raion capital in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine.

Density
1,015/km²
people per km²
Founded
1227

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

Kremenets 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 Kremenets, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 10 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Kremenets is July, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 21 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 4°C. The coldest month of the year in Kremenets is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of -1°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-1-5
Feb1-5
Mar6-1
Apr134
May199
Jun2213
Jul2414
Aug2413
Sep189
Oct125
Nov51
Dec1-4

How hot and cold Kremenets 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 30), with roughly 167 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 48 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-1-1-11-5
Feb11-10-5
Mar66-5-1
Apr131314
May191979
Jun22221313
Jul24241414
Aug24241313
Sep181889
Oct121225
Nov55-41
Dec11-9-4

Average hourly temperature in Kremenets

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

Kremenets 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° / -5°389.27.88.30.0
Feb / -5°3910.17.69.70.0
Mar / -1°4610.95.311.50.6
Apr13° / 5311.31.213.53.7
May19° / 7513.5015.25.6
Jun22° / 13°9114016.16.0
Jul24° / 14°10714.6015.76.2
Aug24° / 13°7611.1014.36.8
Sep18° / 7010.5012.45.7
Oct12° / 4790.710.53.3
Nov / 439.83.88.80.5
Dec / -4°4310.67.77.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Kremenets gets about 726 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 May 2 to Aug 11, peaking in June at about 49% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 7.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 107 mm over about 15 wet days; January is the driest, with 38 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 22 · 49%Oct 7 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan319
Feb3610
Mar3611
Apr3711
May4314
Jun4714
Jul4715
Aug3711
Sep3411
Oct309
Nov3210
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kremenets collects about 726 mm of rain across 135 wet days — roughly 61 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 107 mm, while January is the driest at just 38 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3839465375911077670474343
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3898
Feb39108
Mar46115
Apr53111
May75140
Jun91140
Jul107150
Aug76110
Sep70110
Oct4791
Nov43104
Dec43118

Snow in Kremenets

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.

Kremenets averages about 34 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 10 to Apr 24 — about 6.5 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 31 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 131 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan825
Feb831
Mar520
Apr15
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov419
Dec827

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kremenets, 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 15 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around October 17. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 54% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 18 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 14. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 13 · 57%Dec 8 · 14%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1684
Feb1882
Mar2773
Apr3664
May4258
Jun4357
Jul4951
Aug5446
Sep4258
Oct3367
Nov2179
Dec1585

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 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 7 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.38:184:35
Feb9.77:395:24
Mar11.56:416:13
Apr13.55:327:03
May15.24:387:49
Jun16.14:138:21
Jul15.74:308:15
Aug14.35:137:30
Sep12.46:006:23
Oct10.56:485:16
Nov8.87:404:25
Dec7.98:174:09

Sunny days

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

Kremenets averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.1 months, from around Mar 29 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 2 sunny days — about 75% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 1011 daysJan 92 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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 Kremenets, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around June 1 to August 31. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 31% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 1 to May 31, and October 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 20 · 100%Jul 27 · 62%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May89910
Jun5727151
Jul3534246
Aug4633183
Sep851320
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 Kremenets is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Oct 4 to Apr 12. The windiest month is January, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 13 to Oct 3, with August the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 31 · 15 km/hAug 2 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Kremenets

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 17 · 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
Mar0.6poor
Apr3.6fair
May5.6good
Jun6.0good
Jul6.2good
Aug6.7good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.3poor
Nov0.5poor
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 Kremenets for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 10 · 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 Kremenets, 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 -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, Kremenets 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 Kremenets 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 Kremenets peaks around July 15 at about 7 (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 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 15UV 7Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun7High
Jul7High
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Kremenets

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 7.5 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
Mar00
Apr50
May6.50
Jun83
Jul7.53.5
Aug72.5
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kremenets typically lasts about 241 days, from around March 24 to November 19 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 20 to October 14.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2450%Apr 2090%Oct 1490%Nov 1950%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1831
Feb2228
Mar4331
Apr8520
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8718
Nov5530
Dec2531

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. Kremenets banks about 1,026 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
May124
Jun221
Jul284
Aug266
Sep116
Oct5
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.

Kremenets receives about 3.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.5 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 115.6 kWhDec 160.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.6Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep3.2Moderate
Oct1.9Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Kremenets?

Kremenets sits at 50.1°N, 25.7°E, 342 m above sea level, in Ukraine. The nearest listed city is Dubno, 34 km away.

Topography around Kremenets

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kremenets has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 188 m around an average of 339 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 303 m.

The land around Kremenets is covered by trees (72%) within 3 km, cropland (48%) and trees (36%) within 16 km, and cropland (62%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
188 m
16 km
220 m
80 km
303 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Dubno 34 km · Brody 42 km · Zdolbuniv 60 km · Ternopil 61 km · Zolochiv 67 km · Rivne 68 km · Netishyn 70 km · Volochysk 71 km

Ukraine travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 31% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$5,866
2025
Happiness
4.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
88%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
3.8
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
10.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 526

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 Kremenets (50.0986°, 25.7279°, elevation 342 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).