Climate and average weather in Zolotonosha

In Zolotonosha, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late April to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Zolotonosha typically varies from -6°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 33°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 Zolotonosha for warm-weather activities is from late April to late September.

Hottest
Jul
26°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Jun
66 mm
Driest
Feb
32 mm
Rain / yr
544 mm
103 wet days
Daylight
7.9–16.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
99 m
49.7°N
Clearest
Aug
47% cloud

Zolotonosha is city of Ukraine.

Density
13/km²
people per km²
Founded
1576

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

Zolotonosha 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 late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Zolotonosha, 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 11 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Zolotonosha is July, with an average high of 26°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 19 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 4°C. The coldest month of the year in Zolotonosha is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of -1°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-1-6
Feb0-5
Mar6-1
Apr145
May2111
Jun2415
Jul2617
Aug2615
Sep2011
Oct135
Nov50
Dec0-4

How hot and cold Zolotonosha 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 159 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 46 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)
Jan-1-1-11-6
Feb00-10-5
Mar66-5-1
Apr141435
May21211011
Jun24241515
Jul26261617
Aug26261515
Sep20201011
Oct131335
Nov55-30
Dec00-9-4

Average hourly temperature in Zolotonosha

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Zolotonosha 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° / -6°358.26.58.40.0
Feb / -5°327.35.49.80.0
Mar / -1°398.83.811.50.6
Apr14° / 398.60.513.44.3
May21° / 11°5510015.16.5
Jun24° / 15°6610.40166.9
Jul26° / 17°649.8015.66.8
Aug26° / 15°427.4014.27.3
Sep20° / 11°548.3012.46.5
Oct13° / 427.90.310.53.6
Nov / 387.62.78.80.4
Dec / -4°398.35.480.0

Chance of rain

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

Zolotonosha gets about 544 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 2.7 months, from around May 6 to Jul 26, peaking in June at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 15.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 66 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 24 · 36%Aug 15 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb277
Mar299
Apr299
May3110
Jun3510
Jul3210
Aug247
Sep278
Oct268
Nov268
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Zolotonosha collects about 544 mm of rain across 103 wet days — roughly 45 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 66 mm, while February is the driest at just 32 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec353239395566644254423839
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3587
Feb3275
Mar3994
Apr3991
May55100
Jun66100
Jul64100
Aug4270
Sep5480
Oct4280
Nov3883
Dec3985

Snow in Zolotonosha

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.

Zolotonosha averages about 25 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 25 to Apr 13 — about 5.6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 25 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 103 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan725
Feb524
Mar417
Apr11
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov313
Dec521

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Zolotonosha, 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 14 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 12. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 13 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around April 13. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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 26 · 68%Dec 10 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb1882
Mar2773
Apr4060
May5050
Jun5446
Jul6337
Aug6238
Sep4852
Oct3466
Nov1783
Dec1387

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 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan8.47:514:12
Feb9.87:135:00
Mar11.56:155:48
Apr13.45:086:37
May15.14:147:22
Jun16.03:507:54
Jul15.64:077:48
Aug14.24:487:04
Sep12.45:355:57
Oct10.56:224:51
Nov8.87:134:01
Dec8.07:503:46

Sunny days

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

Zolotonosha averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Apr 3 to Oct 15. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 2 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 514 daysDec 102 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul12Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
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 Zolotonosha, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around May 29 to August 29. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 39% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around August 30 to May 28, 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 25 · 100%Jul 26 · 55%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May831430
Jun4930192
Jul2734309
Aug4730203
Sep851310
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 Zolotonosha is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Oct 18 to Apr 17. The windiest month is January, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 18 to Oct 1, with August the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 30 · 14 km/hAug 5 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep12calm
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Zolotonosha

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 20 · 7.4

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
Mar0.7poor
Apr4.3fair
May6.5good
Jun6.8good
Jul6.8good
Aug7.2good
Sep6.5good
Oct3.6fair
Nov0.4poor
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 Zolotonosha for hot-weather activities is from early June to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 7 · 7.2

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 Zolotonosha, 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 26°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, Zolotonosha sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 17°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Zolotonosha 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 Zolotonosha peaks around July 13 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 13UV 7Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun7High
Jul7Very high
Aug6High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Zolotonosha

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 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
Apr4.50
May60
Jun7.53
Jul84
Aug6.50
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Zolotonosha typically lasts about 240 days, from around March 24 to November 18 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 11 to October 17.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2450%Apr 1190%Oct 1790%Nov 1850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1831
Feb2028
Mar4331
Apr919
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8915
Nov5430
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. Zolotonosha banks about 1,347 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
Apr23
May181
Jun289
Jul355
Aug329
Sep157
Oct13
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.

Zolotonosha receives about 3.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.6 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 89% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 126.0 kWhDec 130.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan0.9Dim
Feb1.7Dim
Mar3.0Moderate
Apr4.4Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep3.4Moderate
Oct2.0Dim
Nov0.9Dim
Dec0.6Dim

Where is Zolotonosha?

Zolotonosha sits at 49.7°N, 32.0°E, 99 m above sea level, in Ukraine. The nearest listed city is Cherkasy, 25 km away.

LubnyBerezan

Topography around Zolotonosha

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Zolotonosha has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 48 m around an average of 96 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 61 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 234 m.

The land around Zolotonosha is covered by trees (37%) and cropland (26%) within 3 km, cropland (54%) and trees (24%) within 16 km, and cropland (59%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
48 m
16 km
61 m
80 km
234 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Cherkasy 25 km · Kaniv 42 km · Smila 50 km · Pereiaslav 61 km · Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi 63 km · Yahotyn 70 km · Lubny 79 km · Berezan 82 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 Zolotonosha (49.6693°, 32.0364°, elevation 99 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).