Climate
The city of Prague has borderline oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The winters are relatively cold with very little sunshine. Snow cover can be common between mid-November to late March. Summers usually bring fine sunny days with highs being around 25 degrees. Nights can be quite cool even in summer, though. Precipitation in Prague is rather low (it is less rainy than Rome and Paris) as the shadow of the Ore Mountains and the Czech Central Highlands takes effect. The driest season is usually winter while the summers can bring quite heavy rain especially in form of violent storms and showers. Temperature inversions are relatively common between mid-October and mid-March bringing often cloudy, cold days in comparison with mountains or highlands and can be often connected with air pollution.
| Climate data for Prague | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) |
3.2 (37.8) |
8.5 (47.3) |
14.2 (57.6) |
18.7 (65.7) |
22.0 (71.6) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.5 (76.1) |
20.0 (68.0) |
13.6 (56.5) |
6.9 (44.4) |
2.6 (36.7) |
13.33 (55.99) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −4.6 (23.7) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
3.1 (37.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
11.2 (52.2) |
13.5 (56.3) |
13.3 (55.9) |
9.5 (49.1) |
5.1 (41.2) |
0.9 (33.6) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
4.50 (40.10) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 23.5 (0.925) |
22.6 (0.89) |
28.1 (1.106) |
38.2 (1.504) |
77.2 (3.039) |
72.7 (2.862) |
66.2 (2.606) |
69.6 (2.74) |
40.0 (1.575) |
30.5 (1.201) |
31.9 (1.256) |
25.3 (0.996) |
525.8 (20.701) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 91 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 49.6 | 73.5 | 124.0 | 168.0 | 213.9 | 219.0 | 226.3 | 210.8 | 162.0 | 120.9 | 54.0 | 46.5 | 1,668.5 |
| Source #1: World Meteorological Organisation (UN) | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Hong Kong Observatory (sun only). | |||||||||||||
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