Climate and average weather in Sambir

In Sambir, the summers are warm, wet, 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 Sambir typically varies from -5°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 30°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 Sambir for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
24°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jul
117 mm
Driest
Jan
42 mm
Rain / yr
840 mm
147 wet days
Daylight
7.9–16.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
300 m
49.5°N
Clearest
Aug
54% cloud

Sambir is city of regional significance, the administrative center of the Sambir district, Lviv region of Ukraine.

Density
1,423/km²
people per km²
Founded
1241

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

Sambir 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 Sambir, 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 13 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Sambir is July, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 25 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Sambir is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 0°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)
Jan0-5
Feb2-4
Mar7-1
Apr144
May199
Jun2212
Jul2414
Aug2313
Sep199
Oct135
Nov71
Dec1-3

How hot and cold Sambir 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 -11°C (around January 29), with roughly 162 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 24 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)
Jan00-10-5
Feb22-9-4
Mar77-5-1
Apr141414
May191979
Jun22221212
Jul23241414
Aug23231313
Sep181989
Oct131325
Nov77-31
Dec11-8-3

Average hourly temperature in Sambir

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

Sambir 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 / -5°4210.88.38.40.0
Feb / -4°4811.18.29.80.0
Mar / -1°5211.85.211.50.8
Apr14° / 6111.81.913.43.7
May19° / 9615.5015.15.3
Jun22° / 12°9715.40165.7
Jul24° / 14°11715.8015.66.0
Aug23° / 13°8412.3014.26.6
Sep19° / 7810.9012.45.7
Oct13° / 6410.20.810.53.6
Nov / 5210.63.98.90.9
Dec / -3°4911.17.780.0

Chance of rain

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

Sambir gets about 840 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 July at about 54% 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 117 mm over about 16 wet days; January is the driest, with 42 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 19 · 54%Oct 7 · 31%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3511
Feb4011
Mar3812
Apr4012
May4816
Jun5215
Jul5116
Aug4012
Sep3611
Oct3310
Nov3511
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sambir collects about 840 mm of rain across 147 wet days — roughly 70 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 117 mm, while January is the driest at just 42 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4248526196971178478645249
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan42118
Feb48118
Mar52125
Apr61122
May96160
Jun97150
Jul117160
Aug84120
Sep78110
Oct64101
Nov52114
Dec49118

Snow in Sambir

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.

Sambir averages about 36 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 11 to Apr 28 — about 6.6 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 38 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 153 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 10
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan826
Feb838
Mar524
Apr211
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct15
Nov420
Dec829

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sambir, 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 11 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around October 25. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 55% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 26 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 10. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% 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 14 · 57%Jan 1 · 22%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2575
Feb2377
Mar2971
Apr4159
May4258
Jun4555
Jul4852
Aug5545
Sep4555
Oct4060
Nov2971
Dec2377

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 18, brings about 16 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 7 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.48:254:48
Feb9.87:485:35
Mar11.56:516:23
Apr13.45:437:12
May15.14:507:57
Jun16.04:268:29
Jul15.64:438:23
Aug14.25:247:38
Sep12.46:116:32
Oct10.56:575:27
Nov8.97:484:37
Dec8.08:254:22

Sunny days

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

Sambir 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 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jun 26 to Nov 4. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 4 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 1411 daysJan 34 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
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 Sambir, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 4 to September 4. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 34% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 5 to June 3, 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 28 · 100%Jul 29 · 56%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May871210
Jun5231171
Jul3134295
Aug3736243
Sep821630
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 Sambir is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Oct 8 to Apr 10. The windiest month is December, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 11 to Oct 7, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 30 · 15 km/hAug 5 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct13light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Sambir

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 17 · 6.8

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
Mar0.8poor
Apr3.7fair
May5.3fair
Jun5.7good
Jul6.0good
Aug6.6good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.6fair
Nov0.9poor
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 Sambir 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 11 · 5.7

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 Sambir, 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 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, Sambir sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 14°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Sambir 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 Sambir peaks around June 23 at about 7 (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 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 23UV 7Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul7High
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Sambir

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 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
Mar20
Apr50
May6.50
Jun83.5
Jul83.5
Aug72.5
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Sambir typically lasts about 247 days, from around March 21 to November 22 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 20 to October 15.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2150%Apr 2090%Oct 1590%Nov 2250%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2231
Feb2628
Mar4731
Apr8520
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8816
Nov5930
Dec2931

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. Sambir banks about 975 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
May111
Jun206
Jul267
Aug256
Sep116
Oct9
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.

Sambir receives about 3.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.8 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.8 kWh/m² — roughly 85% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 95.4 kWhDec 180.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.0Dim
Feb1.8Dim
Mar3.0Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep3.2Moderate
Oct2.0Moderate
Nov1.2Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Sambir?

Sambir sits at 49.5°N, 23.2°E, 300 m above sea level, in Ukraine. The nearest listed city is Drohobych, 29 km away.

Topography around Sambir

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sambir has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 45 m around an average of 297 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 357 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,205 m.

The land around Sambir is covered by cropland (33%), grassland (24%) and trees (23%) within 3 km, cropland (47%), trees (31%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (56%) and cropland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
45 m
16 km
357 m
80 km
1,205 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Drohobych 29 km · Boryslav 30 km · Mostyska 31 km · Truskavets 34 km · Stebnyk 35 km · Przemyśl 43 km · Horodok 44 km · Novoyavorivs'k 53 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 Sambir (49.5162°, 23.2013°, elevation 300 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).