Prizren climate

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Prizren is warmest in August, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -1.7 °C. May is the wettest month (89 mm) and August the driest (39 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Prizren averages 766 mm of rain, 89 days above 25 °C and 57 days below freezing.

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

Warmest month August 29 °C
Coldest month January -1.7 °C
Driest month August 39 mm
Wettest month May 89 mm
Least cloud August 28 % cloud
Hottest on record July 39 °C
Coldest on record January -21 °C

What to expectPrizren through the year

Prizren has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 6.0 °C in January to 29 °C in August, a swing of 22 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 89 days a year reach 25 °C, 32 of them reach 30 °C, 57 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 89 mm against 39 mm in August — 2.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	6.0 °C	59 mm	58 %
February	7.8 °C	60 mm	59 %
March	11.7 °C	73 mm	57 %
April	16.6 °C	83 mm	55 %
May	21.4 °C	89 mm	54 %
June	26.0 °C	52 mm	40 %
July	28.7 °C	48 mm	30 %
August	29.0 °C	39 mm	28 %
September	23.7 °C	54 mm	44 %
October	18.4 °C	62 mm	50 %
November	12.5 °C	69 mm	58 %
December	7.0 °C	77 mm	60 %

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	6.0 °C	-1.7 °C	2.0 °C	16.9 °C	-21.4 °C	0	0	18
February	7.8 °C	-0.6 °C	3.5 °C	21.7 °C	-20.8 °C	0	0	13
March	11.7 °C	2.4 °C	7.1 °C	25.0 °C	-12.2 °C	0	0	7
April	16.6 °C	6.5 °C	11.7 °C	28.4 °C	-6.3 °C	1	0	1
May	21.4 °C	11.3 °C	16.6 °C	32.9 °C	2.6 °C	6	0	0
June	26.0 °C	15.6 °C	21.1 °C	36.2 °C	7.0 °C	17	5	0
July	28.7 °C	18.2 °C	23.6 °C	39.3 °C	11.4 °C	26	12	0
August	29.0 °C	18.6 °C	23.8 °C	38.5 °C	10.3 °C	26	13	0
September	23.7 °C	14.1 °C	18.8 °C	34.9 °C	3.7 °C	12	2	0
October	18.4 °C	9.4 °C	13.7 °C	31.5 °C	-2.5 °C	2	0	0
November	12.5 °C	4.3 °C	8.1 °C	25.9 °C	-14.5 °C	0	0	4
December	7.0 °C	0.0 °C	3.3 °C	17.9 °C	-17.6 °C	0	0	13

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	59 mm	9	9.4 h/day	58 %	77 %	8.5 km/h
February	60 mm	9	11 h/day	59 %	74 %	9.2 km/h
March	73 mm	10	12 h/day	57 %	71 %	10 km/h
April	83 mm	12	13 h/day	55 %	70 %	10.0 km/h
May	89 mm	12	15 h/day	54 %	70 %	9.5 km/h
June	52 mm	9	15 h/day	40 %	64 %	9.4 km/h
July	48 mm	7	15 h/day	30 %	58 %	9.5 km/h
August	39 mm	6	14 h/day	28 %	58 %	8.8 km/h
September	54 mm	7	13 h/day	44 %	66 %	8.6 km/h
October	62 mm	8	11 h/day	50 %	74 %	8.1 km/h
November	69 mm	9	9.8 h/day	58 %	78 %	7.9 km/h
December	77 mm	10	9.1 h/day	60 %	79 %	8.3 km/h

How Prizren 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
Prizren	29 °C	-1.7 °C	766 mm	89
Skopje · North Macedonia	31 °C	-2.0 °C	531 mm	113
Pristina · Kosovo	28 °C	-3.0 °C	623 mm	74
Podgorica · Montenegro	30 °C	0.2 °C	1,901 mm	98
Tirana · Albania	30 °C	2.3 °C	1,132 mm	109

Where Prizren ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Europe in September	25th of 50	94/100
The warmest places in Europe in August	49th of 50	29 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Prizren’s climate

When is the best time to visit Prizren?

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 Prizren get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 32 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 -1.7 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 57 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Prizren?

May, averaging 89 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is August with 39 mm. The year as a whole averages 766 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 Prizren 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: 42.214°, 20.740° (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.