Prague weather by month: averages, rainfall & climate trends
The City of a Hundred Spires sits in a sheltered Bohemian basin in the heart of Europe: a dry-ish continental climate of warm summers, cold, sometimes foggy winters, and brisk westerly winds. Prague weather by month: average temperatures, rainfall, records and how the climate has changed since 1940.
Today vs average
−0.9°Chigh near average
How it's changed
+2.4°Caverage temperature, 2016–2025 vs 1940–1949average temperature vs 1940–4957frost days a year now (2016–2025) · 100 in the 1940sfrost days a year · 100 in the 1940s16days above 30°C a year now (2016–2025) · 4 in the 1940sdays above 30°C · 4 in the 1940s+2.4°C vs the 1940s · see how it's changed →Weather by montha typical year, averaged over the full recordJanuary, rain 42 mmhigh 2°low −3°February, rain 39 mmhigh 4°low −2°March, rain 46 mmhigh 9°low 1°April, rain 52 mmhigh 14°low 5°May, rain 75 mmhigh 19°low 9°June, rain 85 mmhigh 22°low 12°July, rain 85 mmhigh 24°low 14°August, rain 77 mmhigh 24°low 14°September, rain 55 mmhigh 20°low 10°October, rain 44 mmhigh 14°low 6°November, rain 47 mmhigh 7°low 2°December, rain 45 mmhigh 3°low −1°wettest month June, 85 mm · 693 mm a yearsee month by month →Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical average for this date.Right now
10.1°
On this date: October 12
High near average · −0.9°C
- Record high: 23.5° · 2018
- Record low: −1.9° · 2015
- One year ago: 14° / 12°
Every October 12 in history, coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each October 12 on record (n = 87). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Area we sample
Each city's history comes from one ERA5 grid cell, about 28 km across, shown by the dashed box. Near mountains or coasts, conditions can vary across the cell.
Location & data
Historical weather for Prague is sampled from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at 50.09°N, 14.42°E, with daily records since 1940.
- Coordinates
- 50.09°N, 14.42°E
- Time zone
- Europe/Prague
- Period
- 1940–2026
- Data source
- ERA5 (ECMWF)
Last 30 days
25 of the last 31 days were warmer than the historical average for that date. Average difference: +1.5°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above average; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Average = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
This date over the years
One dot per year, showing the mean temperature on this calendar date. Dots are warmer or cooler than the long-term average (dashed line); the shaded band is the typical 10–90% range, and the highlighted dot is today's forecast. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Weather by month
Average temperatures and rainfall for each month: a typical year, from the full record.Climate overview
Prague has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) on the boundary with a humid continental type (Dfb), set in the Bohemian basin of Central Europe. Sheltered in the rain shadow of the Sudetes and other mountains, it is relatively dry. Steady westerly winds are a frequent feature, helping to clear the temperature inversions that settle over the city between mid-autumn and early spring.
Summers are warm and winters cold, with a continental edge. The most serious modern hazard has been flooding: Prague was badly hit by the great Central European floods of 2002, which damaged buildings and the metro. In recent years the record shows a marked rise in the number of hot summer days and an increase in sunshine, signs of a warming trend.
The year peaks in July, at around 24.0°C by mid-afternoon, with nights around 14.2°C. In a typical recent year, around 15 days reach 30°C or more. In January, the coolest month, afternoons reach about 1.9°C and nights dip to −3.1°C.
In total, Prague averages about 693 mm of precipitation a year; June is usually the wettest month (85 mm) and February the driest (39 mm).
The record here starts in 1940, and since then the annual mean in Prague has climbed 2.4°C from the first ten years to the last ten. Frost days have thinned out, from around 100 a year in the first decade to about 55 now.
Climate graph (climograph)
July is the warmest month, January the coolest: a yearly swing of 20°C. Wettest month: June (~85 mm). Whole year averages ~693 mm of rain.
Bars = average monthly rainfall (right axis). Lines = average daily high and low (left axis). Average = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Rainy days by month
About 97 rainy days a year: most in June (~10), fewest in October (~6).
Bars = average number of days with ≥ 2 mm per month. Hover for the monthly rainfall total.
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre: the record's own proxy for how sunny the month is.
Prague month by month: what to expect
Typical conditions for each month, averaged across the full record (since 1940). Daylight is the time from sunrise to sunset. Record high/low are the most extreme values in the ERA5 dataset (modelled since 1940), so they can differ from official weather-station readings.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Rainy days | Daylight | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.9° | −3.1° | 42 mm | 7 | 8.3 h | 16.9° (1993) | −27.7° (1947) |
| February | 3.8° | −2.3° | 39 mm | 7 | 9.8 h | 18.8° (2008) | −28.3° (1956) |
| March | 8.5° | 0.8° | 46 mm | 8 | 11.6 h | 23.6° (2021) | −19.4° (1987) |
| April | 13.9° | 4.6° | 52 mm | 8 | 13.5 h | 29.6° (2012) | −5.3° (2020) |
| May | 18.6° | 9.0° | 75 mm | 10 | 15.2 h | 32.6° (2005) | −1.7° (1941) |
| June | 22.0° | 12.4° | 85 mm | 10 | 16.1 h | 36.4° (2019) | 2.1° (1975) |
| July | 24.0° | 14.2° | 85 mm | 10 | 15.7 h | 38.2° (1983) | 5.6° (1964) |
| August | 23.9° | 13.9° | 77 mm | 9 | 14.3 h | 38.8° (2003) | 3.8° (1980) |
| September | 19.6° | 10.4° | 55 mm | 7 | 12.4 h | 33.3° (2015) | 0.5° (1970) |
| October | 13.8° | 6.2° | 44 mm | 6 | 10.4 h | 27.5° (2023) | −7.8° (1940) |
| November | 7.2° | 2.3° | 47 mm | 7 | 8.7 h | 19.0° (1970) | −11.4° (1965) |
| December | 3.4° | −1.0° | 45 mm | 7 | 7.9 h | 16.7° (1961) | −24.8° (1969) |
How it's changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +2.4°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Average = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Annual mean temperature
Long-term trend: +0.30°C per decade.
One point per year, showing the temperature averaged across the whole year. The dashed line is the least-squares long-term trend. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Seasonal warming
Dec–Feb is warming fastest: +0.47°C per decade.
Each faint line is one three-month period's average per year; the bold dashed line is its long-term trend. Different parts of the year often warm at different rates. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 30°C per year: 3.8 early in the record → 16.0 recently. Frost days: 100 → 57.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Average = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 2003, all-time low in 1956: 38.8°C / −28.3°C.
One point per year: the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~693 mm/year on average. Last decade: +5% vs that average. Long-term trend: +11 mm per decade.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Average = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record, about 30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical average for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Average = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).
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