Kaunas weather by month
The best time to visit Kaunas is June to August — 93/100 in August, 24°C and 12 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (91/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 32/100 — freezing, a little rain, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Lithuania →
Best season: June to August (91/100 on average) · worst January (32/100)
- Days
- 24°C
- Nights
- 13°C
- Wet days
- 12
- Sun
- 10.6 h
- Humidity
- 74%
- Daylight
- 15 h

Kaunas, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Kaunas is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Kaunas through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- February
- Uzgavenes1 Feb – 10 Mar (usually)Festival
- April
- Kaunas Jazz10–30 Apr (usually)Festival
- June
- Pazaislis Music Festival1 Jun – 31 Aug (usually)Festival
- Operetta at Kaunas Castle1 Jun – 31 Jul (usually)Festival
- Joninės, Midsummer23–24 JunHoliday
- September
- AURA International Dance Festival25 Sep – 10 Oct (usually)Festival
- December
- Christmas closures24–26 DecHoliday
Crowds in Kaunas in August
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Busyschool holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Kaunas
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Kaunas forum regulars, drawing on the same regional conversation as Vilnius, call early June warm and pleasant, with typical readings “between 18°C-28°C,” though sometimes it's unexpectedly cold, sometimes hot year to year — genuine variability rather than a single reliable number. Summer overall gets rated the best season to visit, with the high 20s to low 30s not uncommon at the warmer end. Kaunas's own draw beyond the weather: Laisvės Alėja, the 1.6km pedestrianised main street, along with the Devil's Museum, the Čiurlionis art gallery, the 9th Fort and Pažaislis Monastery, plus riverside beaches reachable by bus or bike along the Nemunas. Our record: 23.8°C days, 14.1°C nights, 10.6 rain days and 12.7 hours of sun — warm and sunny, sitting in the middle of the “18-28°C, some years hotter” range forums describe.
Forum posters describe December in Kaunas as capable of being very wintry, rainy and freezing, with temperatures typically hovering around 0C, though posters note a genuinely lucky sunny day is possible too. Posters consistently recommend thermal layers, a hat, scarf and gloves as standard preparation. Posters describe early December in some years as still more autumn-like than winter, with little or no snow yet, while days themselves are at their shortest of the year regardless. Posters generally recommend pairing a Kaunas visit with Vilnius, noting Christmas decorations typically go up ahead of the holidays and stay festive into early January. Posters generally rate December as cold and genuinely variable, workable with proper winter gear.
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