Tirana climate

Name: Tirana
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Tirana is warmest in August, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 2.3 °C. November is the wettest month (139 mm) and August the driest (31 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tirana averages 1,132 mm of rain, 109 days above 25 °C and 21 days below freezing.

Albania · population 418,495 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month August 30 °C
Coldest month January 2.3 °C
Driest month August 31 mm
Wettest month November 139 mm
Least cloud July 17 % cloud
Hottest on record July 39 °C
Coldest on record January -9.3 °C

What to expectTirana through the year

Tirana has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 11 °C in January to 30 °C in August, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 109 days a year reach 25 °C, 42 of them reach 30 °C, 21 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 139 mm against 31 mm in August — 4.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	10.7 °C	106 mm	53 %
February	11.9 °C	107 mm	52 %
March	15.0 °C	117 mm	52 %
April	18.3 °C	104 mm	52 %
May	22.6 °C	89 mm	46 %
June	26.8 °C	51 mm	30 %
July	29.8 °C	34 mm	17 %
August	30.4 °C	31 mm	18 %
September	25.6 °C	99 mm	36 %
October	21.3 °C	119 mm	45 %
November	16.4 °C	139 mm	54 %
December	11.7 °C	137 mm	54 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	10.7 °C	2.3 °C	6.1 °C	17.8 °C	-9.3 °C	0	0	8
February	11.9 °C	2.8 °C	7.2 °C	24.3 °C	-7.5 °C	0	0	6
March	15.0 °C	5.1 °C	10.1 °C	25.7 °C	-3.4 °C	0	0	2
April	18.3 °C	8.3 °C	13.6 °C	29.4 °C	-5.5 °C	1	0	0
May	22.6 °C	12.5 °C	18.0 °C	32.4 °C	6.1 °C	8	0	0
June	26.8 °C	16.6 °C	22.2 °C	37.1 °C	9.3 °C	21	6	0
July	29.8 °C	19.1 °C	24.8 °C	39.3 °C	12.1 °C	29	15	0
August	30.4 °C	19.5 °C	25.1 °C	38.8 °C	13.1 °C	30	17	0
September	25.6 °C	16.0 °C	20.8 °C	34.7 °C	6.3 °C	17	3	0
October	21.3 °C	12.1 °C	16.5 °C	32.1 °C	3.4 °C	3	0	0
November	16.4 °C	8.0 °C	11.9 °C	28.0 °C	-3.1 °C	0	0	1
December	11.7 °C	4.0 °C	7.5 °C	20.1 °C	-8.0 °C	0	0	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	106 mm	10	9.5 h/day	53 %	73 %	12 km/h
February	107 mm	11	11 h/day	52 %	72 %	13 km/h
March	117 mm	11	12 h/day	52 %	72 %	13 km/h
April	104 mm	13	13 h/day	52 %	73 %	13 km/h
May	89 mm	11	15 h/day	46 %	74 %	12 km/h
June	51 mm	7	15 h/day	30 %	71 %	12 km/h
July	34 mm	5	15 h/day	17 %	66 %	13 km/h
August	31 mm	5	14 h/day	18 %	65 %	12 km/h
September	99 mm	9	13 h/day	36 %	71 %	11 km/h
October	119 mm	9	11 h/day	45 %	74 %	11 km/h
November	139 mm	11	9.9 h/day	54 %	75 %	12 km/h
December	137 mm	12	9.2 h/day	54 %	74 %	13 km/h

How Tirana compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Tirana	30 °C	2.3 °C	1,132 mm	109
Durrës · Albania	28 °C	6.5 °C	1,205 mm	84
Prizren · Kosovo	29 °C	-1.7 °C	766 mm	89
Podgorica · Montenegro	30 °C	0.2 °C	1,901 mm	98
Skopje · North Macedonia	31 °C	-2.0 °C	531 mm	113

Where Tirana ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Europe in April	26th of 50	18 °C
The warmest places in Europe in May	28th of 50	23 °C
Places with the best weather in Europe in October	29th of 50	89/100
The warmest places in Europe in October	29th of 50	21 °C
The warmest places in Europe in September	29th of 50	26 °C
The warmest places in Europe in August	30th of 50	30 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Tirana.

QuestionsCommon questions about Tirana’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tirana?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. May, June, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, August is the warmest month and August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Tirana get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 42 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 2.3 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 21 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Tirana?

November, averaging 139 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is August with 31 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,132 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Tirana rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 41.327°, 19.819° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.