Climate averages 1991–2020

Gniezno weather
in August.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 23.4°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 14.7°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 61 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Gniezno · average highYear overview

August is a warm month in Gniezno: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 43 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Poznań (46 km away). In August its highs average 23.7°C, about as warm as Gniezno, with 64 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in Poland, Gniezno ranks joint 31st of 60 for the warmest August highs and joint 10th of 60 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 60 cities is 23.3°C; Gniezno is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 5.0°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 61 mm to 49 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Gniezno climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Gniezno, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 1.4°C-3.1°C-3.1°C4010.08.28 h
February 3.1°C-2.6°C-2.6°C348.69.810 h
March 7.2°C-0.3°C-0.3°C4510.711.812 h
April 13.3°C3.9°C3.9°C338.013.914 h
May 18.1°C8.9°C8.9°C5410.715.716 h
June 21.4°C12.5°C12.5°C6111.016.717 h
July 23.5°C14.9°C14.9°C8611.816.316 h
August, selected 23.4°C14.7°C14.7°C6110.214.715 h
September 18.4°C10.8°C10.8°C499.412.713 h
October 12.6°C6.4°C6.4°C419.010.711 h
November 6.7°C2.1°C2.1°C389.08.89 h
December 2.6°C-1.4°C-1.4°C419.77.88 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

August in nearby cities

Distance from Gniezno

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Gniezno) is explained once on the Gniezno year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.