Best Time to Visit Georgia 2026: Month by Month, by Region

Best overall

May, Sep-Oct

Mountains

Jul-Sep

Skiing

late Dec-Mar

Tbilisi, July

31.5°C high

Georgia has no bad month, only trade-offs. The same July week that is too hot for walking the Old Town is the best of the year in Svaneti, and a grey February in Tbilisi is powder snow at Gudauri. The answer to "when" is really "for what". The detail by season is in our spring, summer, autumn and winter guides, and by month in October and November; this page is the overview.

The climate in brief

The Greater Caucasus runs along the north of the country and splits the weather three ways. The east, Tbilisi and Kakheti, is continental: hot, fairly dry summers and cold, grey winters, with only about 510 mm of rain a year in the capital. The west, Kutaisi and the Black Sea coast, is humid and subtropical: milder winters and a great deal more rain, about 2,435 mm a year in Batumi, most of it in autumn and early winter. The mountains, Kazbegi, Svaneti and Tusheti, have short summers, long snowy winters and passes that open and close with the snow, which is what really decides when you can go where.

Month by month

Temperatures are Tbilisi's 1991 to 2020 climate normals, the average daily high and low, with the month's precipitation. The mountains run about 10 to 12 degrees colder, the coast a few degrees milder and much wetter.

The seasons

Spring, March to May

Spring starts as winter and ends as summer. March is changeable, April is green in the lowlands with the mountains still snowbound, and the second half of May is, for most people, the best fortnight of the year: Tbilisi at 24°C, the Kakheti vineyards in leaf, the lowland hikes and Kazbegi open. Orthodox Easter falls on 2 May in 2027, with public holidays from 30 April to 3 May. The high trails in Juta, Truso and Svaneti open from late May at the earliest. Our spring guide has the month-by-month detail.

Summer, June to August

Summer splits the country in two. In Tbilisi the average high passes 31°C in July and August, with hotter spells, and the city empties to the coast and the mountains. Up there it is the season: the Tusheti road over the Abano Pass opens between late May and late June (20 June in 2026), the Zagari road and the Mestia to Ushguli trek run from June, and Kazbegi is green and busy with Tbilisi weekenders. The Black Sea averages 23°C in June and 26°C in July and August. If you are here in August, put the city at the start and end of the day and the mountains in the middle of the trip.

Autumn, September to November

Late September to mid-October is the best window of the year for a trip that mixes everything. Tbilisi falls to 20 to 26°C by day, rtveli, the grape harvest, runs in Kakheti from late August or early September into October, Tbilisoba takes the first weekend of October, and the mountain trails stay open until the first snow. September is the month for Svaneti and Tusheti; October is the month for Kakheti and the city. By November the high country is closing, the Tusheti road shuts in the second half of October or early November, and Tbilisi is quiet, cheaper and more grey than wet.

Winter, December to February

Winter is for skiing and for Tbilisi without crowds. The lifts open between 20 and 27 December and run to late March, to 19 April at Gudauri, where a 2025-26 adult day pass was 70 GEL (about $27); Bakuriani is the family resort, and our skiing guide compares all four. The capital is grey and damp rather than snowy, around 7 to 8°C by day. Tusheti, Ushguli and the high trails are closed, and the Gudauri to Kobi stretch of the Military Highway shuts for hours or days when the avalanche risk is high. New Year's week is expensive everywhere with a lift; mid-January to early March is the better time to ski.

By region

For the mountains month by month, with trail openings, lift dates and when the guesthouses close, our Kazbegi and Svaneti timing guide goes into detail.

By activity

Dates to plan around

Our festivals guide has the full calendar.

Prices and crowds

Georgia is cheap in every month by Western European standards, and the swing between seasons is smaller than the "low season is half price" advice suggests. On the coast, July and August are the peak and Batumi fills up. In the mountains, summer weekends and New Year week are the peaks. In Tbilisi the pattern depends on the hotel: when we priced the same four places for a Saturday night in mid-October 2026 and one in mid-January 2027, the chain hotel nearly halved in winter and the design hotels did not move. Book the weekends of Tbilisoba, the Gurjaani festival and New Year early wherever you stay.

At the National Bank's rate on 30 September 2026, 429 GEL is about $165 and 241 GEL about $93. For where to stay by neighbourhood, see our Tbilisi where-to-stay guide.

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