Ukraine
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Climate of Ukraine
Country climate guideUkraine is a country of steppe and plateau between about 44 and 53 degrees north, and its climate is continental in the full sense: summers are warm, winters are cold, and the difference between them is large. Nothing in the exchange with the Atlantic is extreme, but the lack of any major barrier lets cold air pour in from the north-east and warmer air from the Mediterranean. The Black Sea influences only the southern part of the country.
Main climate types
A humid continental climate, classed Dfb, covers most of the country, with a Mediterranean-type influence on the Crimean south coast. Three broad zones can be recognised: the forest and steppe belt in the west, which gets the most rainfall; the central and eastern steppe, drier and hotter in summer; and the southern steppe and Black Sea coast, the driest and warmest part. The Carpathians add rain and snow at all times of year.
Temperatures
Kyiv's monthly means run from about -4 °C in January to about 20 °C in July, with summer maximums around 25 to 28 °C and winter cold spells that can reach -25 °C. Further south the range is smaller: Kherson averages about 0 °C in January and 24 °C in July, and at Simferopol on the Crimean south coast the January mean is near 1 °C.
Rainfall
Annual rainfall totals about 600 to 700 mm in Kyiv, with more than half of it falling in the cool half of the year, and roughly 400 to 500 mm in the southern steppe. The Carpathians and the Volhynian and Podilsk plateaux receive the most, around 800 to 1,000 mm. Much of the winter precipitation arrives as snow, and a lasting snow pack is normal from January into early March, feeding the spring melt.
When to go
July and August are the warmest months and the best for the Black Sea resorts. September and October are often the clearest and most comfortable inland, with warm days and fewer crowds. Winter brings snow and ice, and the snowmelt of late winter and early spring produces the country's most serious flooding on the Dnipro and other lowland rivers.