A mountain country between the Black and Caspian seas, with 8,000 years of winemaking and a very short alpine season. Georgia and the caucasus has a strongly continental year. Highs swing roughly 23 °C between January (1 °C) and July (24 °C), so the month you pick changes the trip entirely.
Measured against a hiking trip, the conditions hold up August. August is the most consistent single month: highs near 24 °C, nights around 14 °C, and roughly 88 mm of rain across the month.
The binding constraint here is rainfall and temperature — that is what rules months out, not any composite judgement. January is the weakest month on these criteria.
September sit just outside the window — part of the month works and part does not. These are usually the interesting weeks: conditions are close to the peak-season answer while prices and crowds are not. The map lets you check them fortnight by fortnight rather than trusting a monthly average.
What Georgia and the Caucasus is known for
- Georgia has the oldest known winemaking tradition, using buried clay qvevri, recognised by UNESCO
- Gergeti Trinity Church stands at 2,170 m below Mount Kazbek, one of the Caucasus's iconic views
- Svaneti's medieval defensive tower houses in Mestia and Ushguli sit among Europe's highest permanent settlements
- Tbilisi's sulphur bathhouses in Abanotubani gave the city its name
- Kakheti in the east is the main wine region, easily done from Tbilisi
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | -8 | 68 | 9.9 |
| February | 2 | -7 | 75 | 10.8 |
| March | 6 | -4 | 102 | 14.8 |
| April | 11 | 1 | 118 | 16.0 |
| May | 15 | 6 | 132 | 17.7 |
| June | 20 | 11 | 119 | 16.5 |
| July | 24 | 14 | 101 | 14.9 |
| August | 24 | 14 | 88 | 12.9 |
| September | 20 | 10 | 88 | 12.3 |
| October | 13 | 4 | 93 | 11.8 |
| November | 7 | -2 | 79 | 9.3 |
| December | 3 | -6 | 70 | 9.4 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a hiking trip is met across at least half the month.
By trip type
| Hiking | August |
| City | July to September |
Each row applies that trip type's own hard limits to the same climate data.
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Nearby regions
Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Tbilisi, Kazbegi, Mestia, Kutaisi and Sighnaghi, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.