Best Time to Visit Poland

Geographical location

Poland is a state in eastern central Europe with almost 40 million inhabitants. The capital and largest city of the country is Warsaw with around 1.8 million inhabitants.

The Baltic Sea borders 330 miles to the north, Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine to the east.

There are six geographically distinct regions in Poland: The Baltic Sea coast in the north, the lowlands (Warsaw Basin and Podlassia), the highlands, the promontory, the high mountains in the south of the country and the back landscapes in the southeast.

Poland is a popular destination, especially the coastal towns like Kolberg, Swinemünde, Gdansk and Gdynia are very popular.

Climate in Poland

The climate in Poland is described as a temperate transitional climate. In the northwest of the country, on the Baltic coast, there is a maritime climate, the summers are humid and moderately warm and the winters are also humid and not too cold. In the east the climate is rather continental, the summers are hot and dry and the winters are very cold and snowy. In Warsaw, for example, temperatures can reach 23 °C in summer.

In winter temperatures drop to minus 6 °C. In the east and in the mountains there is a lot of snow all year round. Rainfall in Poland is generally evenly distributed over the year, but there are some regional differences. Most precipitation occurs west of the mountains and in the south-east of Poland there is extremely high precipitation from December to February.