Best time to visit Kutaisi

Georgia · Caucasus and Central Asia

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Kutaisi

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Go in Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep or Nov — these months score within a whisker of each other; 19C max, 11 rainy days. Oct is the next best.

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Things to do in Kutaisi

Gelati Monastery Monastery in Georgia, Caucasus
Motsameta Monastery An 11th-century monastery richly decorated with frescoes.
Vani archaeological site One of the most important cities of antique Colchi, from 8th-6th century BC have been discovered.
Geguti Palace One of the few secular monuments of the medieval Georgian kingdom, located on the banks of the River Rioni.
Synagogue Cultural heritage monument in Georgia
Kutaisi State Historical Museum The museum displays the collection across 10 rooms, over two floors.
Kutaisi Museum of Martial Art Military Museum, History Museum in Kutaisi, Georgia

Tours and tickets in Kutaisi

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Kutaisi), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	10°	12d	69%	5.5h	ok	10C max, 12 rainy days
Feb	11°	13d	73%	5.9h	ok	11C max, 13 rainy days
Mar	14°	16d	72%	6.8h	ok	14C max, 16 rainy days
Apr	19°	11d	71%	8.9h	sweet spot	19C max, 11 rainy days
May	23°	14d	75%	10.0h	sweet spot	23C max, 14 rainy days
Jun	27°	12d	79%	11.3h	sweet spot	27C max, 12 rainy days
Jul	28°	11d	80%	11.3h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	30°	8d	76%	11.5h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	26°	11d	72%	10.2h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Oct	21°	11d	72%	8.0h	okbusy	busier than usual
Nov	16°	10d	69%	6.9h	sweet spot	16C max, 10 rainy days
Dec	13°	11d	67%	5.6h	ok	13C max, 11 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the centre, 21 km from the airport (KUT): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from July to October; quietest from December to March.

Then and now

Kutaisi's December days now average 12.5°C, 4.9°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 10 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	5.8°	6.4°	10.5°	18.5°	21.5°	24.6°	26.0°	26.7°	23.7°	19.1°	13.0°	7.6°
2017–26	10.0°	10.6°	14.0°	19.1°	22.7°	26.8°	28.4°	30.1°	26.4°	21.3°	16.5°	12.5°
Change	+4.2°	+4.2°	+3.5°	+0.6°	+1.2°	+2.2°	+2.4°	+3.3°	+2.6°	+2.2°	+3.5°	+4.9°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

How far Kutaisi is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Georgian lari. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts. Everything for Georgia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Bank cards, including contactless, work on Tbilisi's metro and buses and in many restaurants; carry small lari notes, as taxi drivers often claim to have no change.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Tipping — Many restaurants add a 10–15% service charge without saying so; check the bill first. Tips are usual in Western-style places in Tbilisi, not in traditional ones or bars.

Getting around Kutaisi

Apps — Rides: Bolt, Maxim, Yandex Go. Maps: Google Maps. Messages: WhatsApp, Viber. Hosts, drivers and restaurants expect WhatsApp; set it up before you arrive, as it needs an SMS code to activate.

The interesting parts of the town are walkable. To visit the monasteries in the mountains nearby booking a day-tour may be a time-saving option. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Kutaisi, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Help

Emergency — 112 (any emergency).
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Kutaisi in pictures

2014 Kutaisi, Państwowy Teatr Dramatyczny (01) — i

Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

2014 Kutaisi, Wielka Synagoga (02) — i

Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bagrati Cathedral (Kutaisi) 02 — i

Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Kutaisi is like

Kutaisi is a city in the Rioni Region of Georgia. The city is very cinematographic and charming, and a visit to Kutaisi is almost mandatory to see the Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery, which are UNESCO World Heritage sites and offer views from the mountain slopes over the city and the Rioni River. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Bagrati Cathedral (former UNESCO World Heritage site), Bagrati Street (on foot, from Kutsaisi Park (Central Garden), cross the river on the Nino Street bridge. Over the bridge, turn right, cross the street, and look… More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Football: FC Torpedo Kutaisi, Ramaz Shengelia Stadium. They play soccer in Erovnuli Liga, the top tier, with a split spring / autumn playing season. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Flight destinations: The Hungary-based, low-cost carrier Wizz Air provides low-cost, low-quality no frills flights from Budapest, Hungary; Berlin Dortmund Memmingen, Germany; London Luton, England; Warsaw, Krakow… More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Kutaisi, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Kutaisi

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Kind of place

Kutaisi is in Georgia, Caucasus and Central Asia. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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