The climate is relatively rough and slightly continental. The summers are moderately warm, the winters are cold. The autumns are sunny, but rather chilly already. The air is healthy. The average temperature throughout the year is 6.3 °C in Klaussen near Lyck (with an average temperature of - 4.7 °C in January), 5.7 °C in Marggrabowa and 6.6 °C in the district of Ortelsburg (with an average temperature of - 3.5 °C in January). Marggrabowa has an average of 141 days of frost and 57 days of ice a year, i. e. days with temperatures steadily remaining below 0 °C. One determined 140 days of frost a year in the district of Ortelsburg. The average rainfall over the years amounts to 493 mm in Marggrabowa and to 600 mm in the district of Ortelsburg.