At a glance
Quietest month in Poland: January. Busiest: August, with about 2.4 times as many tourist nights as January. In Zakopane, August is warmest (average high 21.3 °C) and July wettest (192 mm of rain).
- January: 5.8%, quieter than average
- February: 6.5%, quieter than average
- March: 6.0%, quieter than average
- April: 6.4%, quieter than average
- May: 8.4%, busier than average
- June: 9.7%, busier than average
- July: 13.1%, one of the two busiest months
- August: 13.9%, one of the two busiest months
- September: 9.0%, busier than average
- October: 7.8%, quieter than average
- November: 6.7%, quieter than average
- December: 6.6%, quieter than average
quieter than average busier than average two busiest months · each month's share of Poland's 2025 tourist nights; an even spread is 8.3% a month
- Weather
- Coldest: January (average low −7.0 °C). Driest: December (45 mm). Month by month
- Prices
- Restaurants and accommodation in Poland: about 20% below the EU average in 2025. Is Poland expensive?
- Holidays
- 14 national public holidays in 2026. See the dates · School holidays
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At the Zakopane weather station, which we use for Zakopane, the warmest month is August (average high 21.3 °C) and the coldest January (average low −7.0 °C), averaged over 1991–2020. The wettest month is July (192 mm of rain). Across Poland, the quietest month for visitors in 2025 was January.
Zakopane weather by month
Averages for 1991–2020 at the Zakopane weather station (855 m above sea level), from the WMO climate normals, next to each month's share of Poland's tourist nights (Eurostat, 2025) in 2025. The shares are for the whole of Poland, not Zakopane alone. These are long-term averages, not a forecast. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain.
| Month | Average high | Average low | Rain | Rainy days | Daylight on the 15th | Share of 2025 (Poland) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.1 °C | −7.0 °C | 47 mm | 9.6 days | 8 h 40 min | 5.8% |
| February | 2.0 °C | −6.3 °C | 51 mm | 10.5 days | 10 h 10 min | 6.5% |
| March | 5.4 °C | −3.5 °C | 61 mm | 11.0 days | 11 h 50 min | 6.0% |
| April | 11.3 °C | 1.2 °C | 81 mm | 11.3 days | 13 h 45 min | 6.4% |
| May | 16.0 °C | 5.7 °C | 142 mm | 14.7 days | 15 h 20 min | 8.4% |
| June | 19.5 °C | 9.3 °C | 149 mm | 13.9 days | 16 h 10 min | 9.7% |
| July | 21.2 °C | 10.8 °C | 192 mm | 15.1 days | 15 h 50 min | 13.1% |
| August | 21.3 °C | 10.5 °C | 125 mm | 10.9 days | 14 h 25 min | 13.9% |
| September | 16.3 °C | 6.5 °C | 111 mm | 10.9 days | 12 h 35 min | 9.0% |
| October | 11.8 °C | 2.3 °C | 81 mm | 10.4 days | 10 h 50 min | 7.8% |
| November | 6.6 °C | −1.5 °C | 60 mm | 9.6 days | 9 h 10 min | 6.7% |
| December | 1.8 °C | −5.8 °C | 45 mm | 9.8 days | 8 h 15 min | 6.6% |
Golden hour
Evening golden hour is our calculation for the 15th of each month of 2026: the time the sun takes to go from 6° above to 4° below the horizon (there is no official definition).
Public holidays by month
National public holidays from the official list on our holiday page, by month, so you can see them next to the weather and how busy each month was. Regional and local holidays are not included.
| Month | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1 Jan: New Year's Day, 6 Jan: Epiphany | 1 Jan: New Year's Day, 6 Jan: Epiphany |
| March | – | 28 Mar: Easter Sunday, 29 Mar: Easter Monday |
| April | 5 Apr: Easter Sunday, 6 Apr: Easter Monday | – |
| May | 1 May: Labour Day, 3 May: Constitution Day, 24 May: Whit Sunday | 1 May: Labour Day, 3 May: Constitution Day, 16 May: Whit Sunday, 27 May: Corpus Christi |
| June | 4 Jun: Corpus Christi | – |
| August | 15 Aug: Assumption | 15 Aug: Assumption |
| November | 1 Nov: All Saints' Day, 11 Nov: Independence Day | 1 Nov: All Saints' Day, 11 Nov: Independence Day |
| December | 24 Dec: Christmas Eve, 25 Dec: Christmas Day, 26 Dec: Second day of Christmas | 24 Dec: Christmas Eve, 25 Dec: Christmas Day, 26 Dec: Second day of Christmas |
The quietest and busiest months
In 2025, January was Poland's quietest month (5.8% of the year's tourist nights): at Zakopane's station that month averages a high of 1.1 °C, a low of −7.0 °C and 47 mm of rain. August was the busiest (13.9%): average high 21.3 °C, average low 10.5 °C, 125 mm of rain. The visitor figures are for the whole country, and they do not show that the weather makes a month busier or quieter, so we do not say it does.
Similar weather, quieter: ideas for August
August was Poland's busiest month in 2025 (13.9% of its tourist nights). These places had an average high within 2 °C and rainy days within 3 of Zakopane's in August, in a different country, and August took a smaller share of its 2025 tourist nights than August did of Poland's:
- Oslo, Norway: average high 21.3 °C, 11.0 rainy days; August was 13.6% of Norway's year.
- Tallinn, Estonia: average high 21.0 °C, 10.3 rainy days; August was 12.2% of Estonia's year.
- Lahti, Finland: average high 21.1 °C, 9.6 rainy days; August was 10.1% of Finland's year.
- Gothenburg, Sweden: average high 21.8 °C, 11.9 rainy days; August was 13.4% of Sweden's year.
- Ostend, Belgium: average high 21.7 °C, 9.6 rainy days; August was 13.1% of Belgium's year.
Weather: 1991–2020 averages at each city's weather station (World Meteorological Organization normals in Europe, Japan Meteorological Agency in Japan); a rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. “Quieter” compares a month with the rest of that place's own year. Try another month or place. All quieter alternatives to Poland in August.
What these figures are
One weather station stands for Zakopane; places nearby can differ, especially by height or distance from the sea. For the rest of Poland, including regions and holidays, see our Poland page; for other places, the weather by city list and golden hour by place.
Key takeaways
- Warmest month: August (average high 21.3 °C); coldest: January (average low −7.0 °C).
- Wettest month: July (192 mm); driest: December (45 mm).
- In 2025, January was Poland's quietest month for visitors and August the busiest.
Sources
Weather normals from the WMO 1991–2020 dataset; daylight and golden hour are our calculations; tourism shares are the country's, from Eurostat. See how we research.
- Weather: WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), version 6.6, station Zakopane (station ID 00012625), mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation, normals computed from at least 24 years. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 24 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0.
- Daylight: our calculation of the time from sunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month of 2026 at the weather station's location, by the method of the NOAA Solar Calculator (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, “Solar Calculation Details”, based on Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, allowing 0.833° for refraction and the size of the sun). Read it. Checked 22 September 2026. NOAA notes that calculated times can differ from what is observed.
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
Modified data: the rounding, the arrangement, the daylight, golden-hour and sea columns and the quietest/busiest comparison are ours, from the cited figures.