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Tartu weather by month

Tartu runs from about -7°C in January to 19°C in July, with July the wettest month at 158 mm.

warmest month

July

19°C

coolest month

January

-7°C

wettest month

July

158 mm

worst air month

January

12 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Tartu
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January-7°C47 mm42 h12
February-2°C39 mm79 h11
March2°C18 mm173 h12
April6°C65 mm200 h5
May14°C14 mm441 h4
June18°C57 mm431 h4
July19°C158 mm378 h6
August18°C71 mm361 h4
September16°C38 mm302 h5
October8°C33 mm160 h7
November4°C76 mm47 h10
December1°C49 mm40 h9

About 2,654 hours of sun a year. Roughly 68 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-24. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.