Discover the best time of year, based on historical climate, temperature, and precipitation.
The best weather in Šiauliai is from June, July, August, but considering flight prices and crowds, the best months to visit are June, August, September. — consistent weather climate
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| Score | 9 | 11 | 17 | 31 | 67 | 82 | 78 | 80 | 74 | 26 | 9 | 9 |
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| Climate | Polar | Polar | Cold | Cold | Mild | Mild | Humid | Pleasant | Mild | Cold | Cold | Cold |
| Temperature | -5–0°C | -3–2°C | -2–6°C | 2–11°C | 7–17°C | 12–22°C | 14–22°C | 14–22°C | 10–18°C | 5–11°C | 1–5°C | -2–2°C |
| Feels like | -10–-5°C | -8–-3°C | -6–1°C | -2–7°C | 4–15°C | 11–21°C | 13–21°C | 13–22°C | 8–16°C | 2–8°C | -3–1°C | -7–-3°C |
| Precipitation | 49mm 13 days | 40mm 11 days | 36mm 11 days | 42mm 10 days | 59mm 10 days | 70mm 9 days | 97mm 13 days | 76mm 11 days | 46mm 8 days | 50mm 11 days | 49mm 11 days | 47mm 12 days |
| Sunshine | 1.5h ☀︎ 19% | 2.9h ☀︎ 31% | 6.1h ☀︎ 51% | 9.6h ☀︎ 67% | 12.2h ☀︎ 75% | 13.5h ☀︎ 77% | 12.4h ☀︎ 74% | 11.1h ☀︎ 74% | 9.0h ☀︎ 71% | 4.7h ☀︎ 45% | 1.7h ☀︎ 21% | 1.1h ☀︎ 16% |
| Wind | SW · 21 km/h | SW · 21 km/h | SW · 20 km/h | W · 21 km/h | NW · 18 km/h | W · 17 km/h | W · 18 km/h | SW · 17 km/h | SW · 18 km/h | SW · 21 km/h | SW · 20 km/h | SW · 21 km/h |
| Humidity (%) | 88% | 85% | 76% | 70% | 67% | 69% | 74% | 75% | 78% | 83% | 89% | 90% |
| Day length | 7.7h | 9.6h | 11.9h | 14.2h | 16.3h | 17.5h | 16.9h | 15.0h | 12.7h | 10.4h | 8.3h | 7.1h |
| Tourist Crowds | Low season | Low season | Low season | Low season | Shoulder season | High season | High season | High season | Shoulder season | Low season | Low season | Low season |
While standard Baltic itineraries crown June as the undisputed peak, Šiauliai is actually at its most coherent in September, when the summer downpours recede into dry, amber stillness.
Most travelers arrive in Šiauliai for a single, solemn pilgrimage: Kryžių kalnas, the Hill of Crosses, where hundreds of thousands of wooden, metal, and stone crucifixes hum in the open winds just outside town. Yet the city itself—the urban anchor of northern Lithuania—is a place of quiet, functional brick, broad pedestalled boulevards, and expansive lakefronts that live to a strictly provincial rhythm. The common travel consensus tells you to visit when the Baltic sun burns longest in June. That advice is deceptively simple, ignoring how midsummer moisture hangs heavy over the plains. If you want Šiauliai at its sharpest, clearest, and most evocative, you look past midsummer entirely.
A conventional weather index points straight to June, dazzled by thirteen hours of daily daylight and high temperatures around 22 °C. But high midsummer in northern Lithuania carries a humid sting: sudden, soaking convective squalls that send visitors diving off the Vilniaus gatvė pedestrian concourse into doorways, leaving the air muggy and heavy. September changes the equation completely. Apparent temperatures drop to a brisk, invigorating 16 °C, but rainfall plummets to the cleanest, driest levels of the entire year.
The air off Talkšos ežeras turns glass-clear. The thick canopy around the lakeside paths takes on a sharp golden edge, and the light settles low across the white facade of the Šv. apaštalų Petro ir Pauliaus katedra. Walking the cobblestones and red bricks of the city center feels unhurried; the tour groups shuttling between Riga and Vilnius have dwindled, leaving Kryžių kalnas to the quiet rustle of rosaries clacking against wood in a gentle autumn breeze. It is cool enough to wear wool, dry enough to walk for hours without an umbrella, and calm enough to feel the true provincial character of the town.
Summer in Šiauliai has undeniable energy, but it comes at a genuine price. July and August bring the year's heaviest precipitation, not in polite Baltic mists, but in intense, sudden drenchings that can wash out an entire afternoon. July alone sees nearly a hundred millimeters of rain, turning the open footpaths of Salduvės piliakalnis into slick clay slides.
August marks the busiest month of the calendar year. Tour coaches pack the parking loops outside Kryžių kalnas, filling the narrow wooden trails through the crosses with dense crowds, while the gardens surrounding Chaimo Frenkelio vila lose their contemplative calm. The heat itself is rarely punishing—daytime highs hover around 22 °C—but the humidity can make city walks along Vilniaus gatvė feel surprisingly close. If you come during these months, you will enjoy long evening twilights that stretch near midnight, but you will share every vantage point and dodge regular, heavy cloudbursts to get them.
By October, daylight collapses with staggering speed. Sun hours fall to under five a day in October and shrink to less than two by November, leaving the city under an unrelenting wool-grey sky. Yet strangely, hotel occupancy and visitor traffic spike dramatically in November, creating one of the busiest months of the year right as the climate index plunges to the floor.
This late-autumn crush is driven by regional commerce, domestic transit, and early winter memorial weekends, but for the leisure traveler, it is an unforgiving season. The cold is a penetrating, damp chill that hovers just above freezing, where afternoon air feels raw on exposed skin and a constant low drizzle clings to your coat. The open plain surrounding the Hill of Crosses turns bleak and scourged by biting easterly winds. Unless your goal is to experience northern Lithuania at its most austere and solitary, this period offers little sensory reward.
Winter in Šiauliai is a sustained test of endurance. Apparent temperatures settle deep in the negatives, dropping to around -5 °C in January. Daylight is a brief, pale rumor, often reduced to barely an hour of direct sunshine per day across December and January. The city retreats inward behind thick double glazing and heavy heavy-curtained vestibules.
Talkšos ežeras freezes over into a sheet of pale ice, and when fresh snow blankets the ramparts of Salduvės piliakalnis, the landscape acquires an undeniable, stark dignity. At Kryžių kalnas, heavy rime and snow dust the thousands of crossbeams, muting the site into a silent, monochrome expanse. If you are properly dressed in windproof down, winter visits offer an almost sacred isolation. But the cold is persistent, sidewalks along Vilniaus gatvė can glaze into ice sheets, and lingering outside for more than an hour quickly ceases to be an adventure.
Spring arrives late and without sentiment in northern Lithuania. April remains stubbornly cold, with daytime highs around 11 °C and freezing winds that make the lingering winter air bite. Trees remain bare through most of the month, and the parks around Chaimo Frenkelio vila have yet to wake from the frost.
Then, in May, the switch flips. Sunlight explodes to over twelve hours a day, the birch woods erupt into vivid lime-green foliage, and temperatures climb rapidly toward 17 °C. Domestic visitors pour out onto the outdoor terraces lining Vilniaus gatvė, eager to shake off months of grey confinement. Crowd levels jump sharply as regional school trips and weekenders arrive in force. While May can be lively and visually lush, it lacks the dry, settled composure of September, functioning instead as a restless, exuberant dress rehearsal for summer.