Climate and average weather in Polohy

In Polohy, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late April to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Polohy typically varies from -6°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -17°C or above 35°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 Polohy for warm-weather activities is from late April to early October.

Hottest
Jul
28°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Jun
56 mm
Driest
Feb
32 mm
Rain / yr
490 mm
93 wet days
Daylight
8.2–15.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
102 m
47.5°N
Clearest
Aug
38% cloud

Polohy is city in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.

Density
1,132/km²
people per km²
Founded
1887

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

Polohy 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 April to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Polohy, 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 19 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Polohy is July, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 19 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Polohy is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of -0°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-6
Feb1-5
Mar7-1
Apr155
May2111
Jun2615
Jul2817
Aug2816
Sep2211
Oct146
Nov60
Dec1-4

How hot and cold Polohy 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 30), with roughly 161 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 50 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan00-11-6
Feb11-11-5
Mar77-5-1
Apr151525
May21211011
Jun26261515
Jul28281717
Aug28281616
Sep22221111
Oct141436
Nov66-40
Dec11-9-4

Average hourly temperature in Polohy

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Polohy 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-0° / -6°388.55.98.70.0
Feb / -5°326.84.69.90.0
Mar / -1°3993.511.60.9
Apr15° / 448.50.213.34.6
May21° / 11°549.7014.96.7
Jun26° / 15°5610015.76.8
Jul28° / 17°417.4015.46.5
Aug28° / 16°375.8014.16.9
Sep22° / 11°396.7012.47.3
Oct14° / 3560.210.64.6
Nov / 366.71.79.10.7
Dec / -4°397.43.78.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Polohy gets about 490 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.5 months, from around Feb 24 to Jul 11, peaking in June at about 34% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 9.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 56 mm over about 10 wet days; February is the driest, with 32 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 20 · 34%Oct 9 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan279
Feb257
Mar299
Apr299
May3110
Jun3310
Jul247
Aug196
Sep227
Oct196
Nov237
Dec247

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Polohy collects about 490 mm of rain across 93 wet days — roughly 41 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 56 mm, while February is the driest at just 32 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec383239445456413739353639
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3896
Feb3275
Mar3994
Apr4490
May54100
Jun56100
Jul4170
Aug3760
Sep3970
Oct3560
Nov3672
Dec3974

Snow in Polohy

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.

Polohy averages about 20 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 29 to Apr 8 — about 5.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 22 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 82 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan622
Feb519
Mar417
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov27
Dec417

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Polohy, 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 20 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around October 17. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 74% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 18 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 19. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 86% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 31 · 79%Jan 15 · 14%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb2278
Mar2872
Apr4159
May5446
Jun5842
Jul7426
Aug7426
Sep6040
Oct4357
Nov2674
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 15 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 8 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.77:254:04
Feb9.96:514:48
Mar11.65:575:32
Apr13.34:546:16
May14.94:046:58
Jun15.73:437:27
Jul15.43:597:23
Aug14.14:376:42
Sep12.45:195:39
Oct10.66:024:38
Nov9.16:493:52
Dec8.37:233:39

Sunny days

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

Polohy averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Apr 22 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 3 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 419 daysDec 252 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May10Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep13Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov5Gloomy
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 Polohy, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around May 30 to September 5. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 28% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 6 to May 29, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 2 · 100%Jul 29 · 68%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May861220
Jun5229172
Jul3636244
Aug5427172
Sep831340
Oct95400
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 Polohy is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Oct 26 to Apr 19. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 20 to Oct 2, with July the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 31 · 15 km/hJul 6 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Polohy

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Polohy 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 Polohy for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to early October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 2 · 7.6

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
Apr4.5fair
May6.7good
Jun6.8good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.3good
Oct4.6fair
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 Polohy for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 8 · 8.0

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 Polohy, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes 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, Polohy sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Polohy 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 Polohy peaks around June 22 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateVery highHighModerateLowJun 22UV 8Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr5High
May5Moderate
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug6High
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Polohy

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 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
Mar00
Apr5.50
May60
Jun84.5
Jul84
Aug6.51.5
Sep5.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Polohy typically lasts about 239 days, from around March 24 to November 17 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 12 to October 14.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2450%Apr 1290%Oct 1490%Nov 1750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1831
Feb2128
Mar4331
Apr9010
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8717
Nov5230
Dec2631

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. Polohy banks about 1,509 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr22
May184
Jun312
Jul394
Aug373
Sep195
Oct28
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.

Polohy receives about 3.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.8 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 25 to Sep 22. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 86% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 136.2 kWhDec 190.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.1Dim
Feb1.9Dim
Mar3.2Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.1Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct2.4Moderate
Nov1.2Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Polohy?

Polohy sits at 47.5°N, 36.3°E, 102 m above sea level, in Ukraine. The nearest listed city is Tokmak, 48 km away.

VilnyanskBerdyanskVolnovakhaZaporizhzhyaDniprorudneKurakhoveMelitopol

Topography around Polohy

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Polohy has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 62 m around an average of 115 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 185 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 314 m.

The land around Polohy is covered by cropland (33%), grassland (30%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 3 km, cropland (77%) within 16 km, and cropland (85%) within 80 km.

3 km
62 m
16 km
185 m
80 km
314 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Tokmak 48 km · Vilnyansk 80 km · Berdyansk 90 km · Volnovakha 94 km · Zaporizhzhya 95 km · Dniprorudne 95 km · Kurakhove 95 km · Melitopol 96 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 Polohy (47.4787°, 36.2546°, elevation 102 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).