Climate and average weather in Pustec

In Pustec, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early June to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pustec typically varies from -3°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -11°C or above 31°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Pustec for warm-weather activities is from early June to early October.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Dec
80 mm
Driest
Aug
29 mm
Rain / yr
704 mm
112 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
40.8°N
Clearest
Jul
29% cloud

Pustec weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early June to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Pustec, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from June 4 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Pustec is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 27 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Pustec is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-3
Feb6-2
Mar90
Apr134
May188
Jun2312
Jul2614
Aug2615
Sep2111
Oct167
Nov102
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Pustec really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -6°C (around January 27), with roughly 134 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-6-3
Feb66-5-2
Mar99-20
Apr131324
May181878
Jun23231212
Jul25261414
Aug26261515
Sep21211111
Oct161667
Nov101012
Dec55-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Pustec

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Pustec weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -3°65107.89.40.0
Feb / -2°639.56.710.40.3
Mar / 7211.55.911.71.8
Apr13° / 6812.61.513.13.5
May18° / 6811.90.114.25.7
Jun23° / 12°408.5014.97.3
Jul26° / 14°326014.68.0
Aug26° / 15°296.6013.67.8
Sep21° / 11°527.5012.37.1
Oct16° / 657.70.410.95.4
Nov10° / 709.12.29.72.4
Dec / -2°8010.769.10.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Pustec gets about 704 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.9 months, from around Nov 15 to Jun 12, peaking in April at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 14.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 80 mm over about 11 wet days; August is the driest, with 29 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 19 · 44%Jul 14 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb3410
Mar3712
Apr4213
May3812
Jun299
Jul206
Aug217
Sep258
Oct258
Nov309
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pustec collects about 704 mm of rain across 112 wet days — roughly 59 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 80 mm, while August is the driest at just 29 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec656372686840322952657080
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan65108
Feb63107
Mar72126
Apr68132
May68120
Jun4090
Jul3260
Aug2970
Sep5280
Oct6580
Nov7092
Dec80116

Snow in Pustec

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Pustec averages about 31 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 21 to Apr 26 — about 6.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 36 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 187 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan836
Feb744
Mar636
Apr28
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct03
Nov218
Dec642

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Pustec, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 23 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 9. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 61% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 18 · 91%Dec 5 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4159
Feb4159
Mar4753
Apr4852
May5644
Jun7624
Jul9010
Aug8812
Sep6733
Oct5842
Nov4456
Dec3961

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 11, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.47:044:27
Feb10.46:405:02
Mar11.75:565:36
Apr13.15:046:09
May14.24:256:41
Jun14.94:097:04
Jul14.64:227:02
Aug13.64:516:30
Sep12.35:235:39
Oct10.95:554:48
Nov9.76:314:12
Dec9.17:004:05

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Pustec averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Jun 2 to Oct 30. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 8 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1521 daysDec 57 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr8Gloomy
May10Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Pustec, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9910
Jun83170
Jul68311
Aug68310
Sep9370
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Pustec is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 6 · 7 km/hAug 9 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Pustec

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Pustec throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late September, Pustec is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Pustec for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to early October, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 12 · 8.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.3poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr3.6fair
May5.7good
Jun7.3good
Jul8.0ideal
Aug7.8ideal
Sep7.1good
Oct5.4fair
Nov2.4poor
Dec0.2poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Pustec for hot-weather activities is from late June to early September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 7.5

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Pustec, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 26°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Pustec sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 15°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pustec by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Pustec peaks around July 13 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 13UV 10Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5High
Apr7Very high
May7Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Pustec

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar5.50
Apr73.5
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep6.52.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Pustec by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Pustec is worst in April — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 2316 µg/m³Dec 179 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb12Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct11Good
Nov11Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Pustec typically lasts about 261 days, from around March 18 to December 3 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 17 to October 30.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1850%Apr 1790%Oct 3090%Dec 350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2331
Feb2728
Mar5031
Apr8916
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct972
Nov7430
Dec3531

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Pustec banks about 1,162 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May91
Jun213
Jul308
Aug317
Sep185
Oct47
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Pustec receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.7 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 21. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.7 kWh/m² — roughly 75% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.0 kWhDec 121.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Moderate
Feb2.9Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May6.1Intense
Jun6.8Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.1Intense
Sep4.6Bright
Oct3.2Moderate
Nov2.1Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Pustec?

Pustec sits at 40.8°N, 20.9°E, 0 m above sea level, in Albania. The nearest listed city is Korçë, 21 km away.

KorçëPogradecResenOhridStrugaVevčani

Topography around Pustec

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Pustec.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pustec has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,013 m around an average of 1,023 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,515 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,550 m.

The land around Pustec is covered by trees (36%), grassland (29%) and water (23%) within 3 km, trees (33%), grassland (26%) and cropland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (54%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,013 m
16 km
1,515 m
80 km
2,550 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Korçë 21 km · Pogradec 25 km · Resen 35 km · Ohrid 38 km · Flórina 43 km · Bitola 46 km · Struga 47 km · Vevčani 57 km

Albania travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 43% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$12,998
2025
Happiness
5.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
71%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.4
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
11.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 532
Religion
Muslim 57%Roman Catholic 10%Orthodox 7%other 6%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Pustec (40.7867°, 20.9022°, elevation 0 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).