Country Guide

This country is situated in northern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It borders Latvia to the north, Belarus to the south and east, and Poland and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation to the southwest.

The climate is essentially temperate although considerable temperature variations are experienced. Summer is warm with the heaviest rainfall occuring August. Winter can be very cold and is dominated by cold winds from the interior of Russia.

The table for Vilnius shows that conditions in Lithuania do not differ much from the weather at Riga in Latvia.