Climate and average weather in Goražde

In Goražde, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly 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 Goražde typically varies from -5°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -14°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 Goražde for warm-weather activities is from early June to early October.

Hottest
Aug
25°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
May
93 mm
Driest
Aug
57 mm
Rain / yr
849 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
348 m
43.7°N
Clearest
Aug
44% cloud

Goražde is city in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Air quality
High
PM2.5 32.5 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
3,113/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Goražde 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 Goražde, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 30 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Goražde is August, with an average high of 25°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 24 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Goražde is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 3°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3-5
Feb5-4
Mar90
Apr144
May198
Jun2212
Jul2514
Aug2514
Sep2110
Oct165
Nov91
Dec4-3

How hot and cold Goražde 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 -8°C (around January 30), with roughly 144 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)
Jan33-8-5
Feb55-7-4
Mar99-30
Apr141424
May191978
Jun22221212
Jul25251414
Aug25251414
Sep2121910
Oct161645
Nov99-11
Dec44-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Goražde

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

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

Goražde 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 / -5°57118.69.10.0
Feb / -4°6210.78.510.20.2
Mar / -1°7312.26.711.61.9
Apr14° / 8214.22.713.23.7
May19° / 9314.80.314.55.3
Jun22° / 12°8414.8015.26.1
Jul25° / 14°7412.3014.96.8
Aug25° / 14°5711.2013.86.9
Sep21° / 10°6310.5012.36.4
Oct16° / 648.61.110.85.0
Nov / 689.94.19.52.0
Dec / -3°7211.47.98.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Goražde gets about 849 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 4.1 months, from around Mar 11 to Jul 13, peaking in June at about 53% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 27.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 93 mm over about 15 wet days; August is the driest, with 57 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 1 · 53%Oct 27 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3511
Feb3911
Mar4012
Apr4714
May4815
Jun4815
Jul4012
Aug3611
Sep3411
Oct289
Nov3310
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Goražde collects about 849 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 71 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 93 mm, while August is the driest at just 57 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec576273829384745763646872
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan57119
Feb62119
Mar73127
Apr82143
May93150
Jun84150
Jul74120
Aug57110
Sep63110
Oct6491
Nov68104
Dec72118

Snow in Goražde

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.

Goražde averages about 40 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 5 to May 2 — about 6.9 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 51 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 226 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 16
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan937
Feb951
Mar733
Apr321
May02
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct112
Nov426
Dec845

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Goražde, 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 29 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 28. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 29 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 28. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 15 · 70%Feb 19 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3466
Mar3862
Apr4060
May4456
Jun5644
Jul6535
Aug6733
Sep5149
Oct4753
Nov4060
Dec3565

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 19, brings about 15 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 8 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.17:214:26
Feb10.26:525:05
Mar11.66:055:43
Apr13.25:086:20
May14.54:256:56
Jun15.24:077:21
Jul14.94:217:18
Aug13.84:546:43
Sep12.35:305:47
Oct10.86:064:52
Nov9.56:464:12
Dec8.87:174:03

Sunny days

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

Goražde averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Jun 12 to Nov 5. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 6 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1315 daysMay 236 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun10Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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 Goražde, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 8% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 14 · 100%Aug 3 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun66304
Jul464410
Aug52408
Sep89110
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 Goražde is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 28 · 7 km/hAug 7 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Goražde

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Goražde is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Goražde for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to early October, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 23 · 7.1

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
Feb0.2poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr3.7fair
May5.3fair
Jun6.1good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.9good
Sep6.4good
Oct4.9fair
Nov2.0poor
Dec0.1poor

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 Goražde 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 16 · 6.4

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 Goražde, 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 25°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 3°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Goražde sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Goražde 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 Goražde peaks around July 17 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highModerateLowJul 17UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Goražde

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 5.5 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
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep5.50
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Goražde 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 Goražde is worst in April — around 46 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.4× the cleanest month (December, 19 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Goražde's WHO annual average of 32.5 µg/m³.

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 2146 µg/m³Dec 2019 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb29Moderate
Mar37Poor
Apr46Poor
May45Poor
Jun42Poor
Jul36Poor
Aug43Poor
Sep28Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov22Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Goražde typically lasts about 244 days, from around March 21 to November 19 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 19 to October 17.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2150%Apr 1990%Oct 1790%Nov 1950%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1831
Feb2328
Mar4631
Apr8620
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9016
Nov5830
Dec2531

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. Goražde banks about 1,076 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr8
May105
Jun211
Jul281
Aug290
Sep154
Oct26
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.

Goražde receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.4 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 20. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.4 kWh/m² — roughly 76% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 45.9 kWhDec 201.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.7Dim
Feb2.4Moderate
Mar3.7Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct2.8Moderate
Nov1.8Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Goražde?

Goražde sits at 43.7°N, 19.0°E, 348 m above sea level, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The nearest listed city is Pljevlja, 46 km away.

PljevljaSarajevoSrebrenicaIlidžaŽabljakZlatiborVisokoUžice

Topography around Goražde

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Goražde has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 624 m around an average of 518 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,158 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,295 m.

The land around Goražde is covered by trees (80%) within 3 km, trees (89%) within 16 km, and trees (74%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
624 m
16 km
1,158 m
80 km
2,295 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Pljevlja 46 km · Sarajevo 54 km · Srebrenica 55 km · Ilidža 57 km · Žabljak 58 km · Zlatibor 59 km · Visoko 73 km · Užice 73 km

Bosnia and Herzegovina travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 40% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$10,382
2025
Happiness
6.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
86%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
13.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 591
Religion
Muslim 51%Orthodox 31%Roman Catholic 15%other 1%

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 Goražde (43.6679°, 18.9756°, elevation 348 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).