Climate and average weather in Saki

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

Best: late April to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Saki typically varies from -1°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -9°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 times of year to visit Saki for warm-weather activities are from late April to mid July and mid August to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
29°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Jun
36 mm
Driest
Jul
23 mm
Rain / yr
362 mm
77 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
17 m
45.1°N
Clearest
Aug
28% cloud

Saki is city of Crimea, Ukraine.

Density
977/km²
people per km²

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

Saki 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 mid July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.5 months, from June 2 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Saki is July, with an average high of 29°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 23 to March 19, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Saki is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 4°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-1
Feb5-1
Mar92
Apr157
May2112
Jun2617
Jul2920
Aug2919
Sep2415
Oct179
Nov115
Dec61

How hot and cold Saki 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 -6°C (around January 29), with roughly 127 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-6-1
Feb55-5-1
Mar99-22
Apr151547
May21211212
Jun26261717
Jul29291920
Aug29291919
Sep24241415
Oct171789
Nov111115
Dec66-31

Average hourly temperature in Saki

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -1°C.

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

Saki 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°327.52.390.0
Feb / -1°286.71.710.10.2
Mar / 327.81.311.61.9
Apr15° / 306.50.113.25.0
May21° / 12°317.2014.67.1
Jun26° / 17°367.6015.47.3
Jul29° / 20°235.2015.16.5
Aug29° / 19°274.5013.96.6
Sep24° / 15°265.1012.37.9
Oct17° / 315.5010.76.1
Nov11° / 326.20.49.32.8
Dec / 346.81.48.60.5

Chance of rain

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

Saki gets about 362 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 2.0 months, from around May 7 to Jul 5, peaking in May at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 10.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 36 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 23 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetMay 29 · 27%Aug 10 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan248
Feb247
Mar258
Apr227
May237
Jun258
Jul185
Aug155
Sep175
Oct186
Nov216
Dec227

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Saki collects about 362 mm of rain across 77 wet days — roughly 30 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 36 mm, while July is the driest at just 23 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec322832303136232726313234
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3282
Feb2872
Mar3281
Apr3070
May3170
Jun3680
Jul2350
Aug2750
Sep2650
Oct3160
Nov3260
Dec3471

Snow in Saki

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.

Saki averages about 7 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 23 to Apr 3 — about 4.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 7 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 25 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan27
Feb25
Mar15
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec17

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Saki, 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 19 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 18. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 18. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 79% 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 2 · 89%Dec 13 · 20%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb2773
Mar3862
Apr5248
May6238
Jun7129
Jul8614
Aug8515
Sep7228
Oct5446
Nov3664
Dec2179

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 11, brings about 15 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.08:275:23
Feb10.17:576:04
Mar11.67:076:44
Apr13.26:087:24
May14.65:228:01
Jun15.45:038:28
Jul15.15:188:25
Aug13.95:527:47
Sep12.36:316:49
Oct10.77:095:52
Nov9.37:525:10
Dec8.68:244:59

Sunny days

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

Saki averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 22 to Oct 13. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 4 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 223 daysJan 253 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr10Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug22Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct11Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around May 28 to September 15. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 44% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 16 to May 27, 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 22 · 100%Aug 1 · 46%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr1000000
May7718500
Jun33322870
Jul163433171
Aug272931120
Sep59261220
Oct8414200
Nov991000
Dec1000000

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 Saki is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Oct 9 to Apr 12. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 13 to Oct 8, with May the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 1 · 16 km/hMay 26 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun12calm
Jul12calm
Aug12calm
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Saki

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early July, Saki is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 times of year to visit Saki for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to mid July and again from mid August to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 14 · 8.1

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
Feb0.3poor
Mar2.0poor
Apr4.9fair
May7.1good
Jun7.3good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.7good
Sep7.9ideal
Oct6.0good
Nov2.8poor
Dec0.5poor

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 Saki for hot-weather activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 14 · 8.4

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 Saki, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Saki sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Saki

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in August at about 24°C and coldest in February near 8°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 17 to Sep 28 — about 3.4 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan9Bracing
Feb8Bracing
Mar8Bracing
Apr10Bracing
May15Bracing
Jun20Refreshing
Jul23Refreshing
Aug24Warm
Sep22Refreshing
Oct18Cool
Nov14Bracing
Dec11Bracing

UV index (midday) in Saki 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 Saki peaks around July 21 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 21UV 8Dec 19UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Saki

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
Mar0.50
Apr60
May60
Jun70
Jul84.5
Aug7.54
Sep5.50
Oct10
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Saki typically lasts about 308 days, from around February 24 to December 28 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 1 to November 8.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2450%Apr 190%Nov 890%Dec 2850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4231
Feb4528
Mar7431
Apr981
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov8423
Dec5731

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. Saki banks about 1,835 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr34
May201
Jun345
Jul443
Aug437
Sep273
Oct102
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.

Saki receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.1 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 25 to Sep 23. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.1 kWh/m² — roughly 83% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 126.6 kWhDec 191.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr5.1Bright
May6.2Intense
Jun6.5Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct2.8Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Saki?

Saki sits at 45.1°N, 33.6°E, 17 m above sea level, in Ukraine. The nearest listed city is Yevpatoriya, 20 km away.

BilohirskAlushta

Topography around Saki

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Saki has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 32 m around an average of 13 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 81 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,532 m.

The land around Saki is covered by artificial surfaces (32%) and grassland (28%) within 3 km, cropland (37%), water (36%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (39%), water (26%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
32 m
16 km
81 m
80 km
1,532 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Yevpatoriya 20 km · Simferopol 45 km · Bakhchysaray 47 km · Sevastopol 59 km · Balaklava 69 km · Bilohirsk 79 km · Alushta 82 km · Yalta 83 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 Saki (45.1342°, 33.6°, elevation 17 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).