Climate and average weather in Lukavac

In Lukavac, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lukavac typically varies from -3°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -11°C or above 33°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 Lukavac for warm-weather activities is from early May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
May
112 mm
Driest
Jan
66 mm
Rain / yr
983 mm
140 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
194 m
44.5°N
Clearest
Aug
42% cloud

Lukavac is town in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Air quality
Very high
PM2.5 42.8 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
132/km²
people per km²

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

Lukavac 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 May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 24 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Lukavac is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 24 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Lukavac 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 August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-3
Feb7-2
Mar112
Apr166
May2110
Jun2414
Jul2615
Aug2715
Sep2211
Oct177
Nov113
Dec5-1

How hot and cold Lukavac 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 31), with roughly 121 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)
Jan44-5-3
Feb67-5-2
Mar1111-12
Apr161646
May21211010
Jun24241414
Jul26261515
Aug27271515
Sep22221111
Oct171767
Nov111113
Dec55-4-1

Average hourly temperature in Lukavac

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Lukavac 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°66117.990.0
Feb / -2°6711.2710.10.6
Mar11° / 7912.24.711.62.8
Apr16° / 9313.51.513.24.6
May21° / 10°11214.80.114.65.7
Jun24° / 14°10713.5015.36.4
Jul26° / 15°9411.50156.7
Aug27° / 15°699.9013.96.9
Sep22° / 11°8210.6012.36.6
Oct17° / 688.90.510.75.5
Nov11° / 7210.43.39.42.6
Dec / -1°76126.88.70.2

Chance of rain

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

Lukavac gets about 983 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 5.0 months, from around Feb 8 to Jul 8, peaking in May at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 28.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 112 mm over about 15 wet days; January is the driest, with 66 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 27 · 50%Oct 28 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3511
Feb4011
Mar3912
Apr4514
May4815
Jun4414
Jul3712
Aug3310
Sep3511
Oct309
Nov3410
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lukavac collects about 983 mm of rain across 140 wet days — roughly 82 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 112 mm, while January is the driest at just 66 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec66677993112107946982687276
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan66118
Feb67117
Mar79125
Apr93142
May112150
Jun107140
Jul94120
Aug69100
Sep82110
Oct6891
Nov72103
Dec76127

Snow in Lukavac

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.

Lukavac averages about 32 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 16 to Apr 29 — about 6.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 35 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 192 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan835
Feb745
Mar523
Apr213
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov328
Dec745

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lukavac, 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 June 3 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 29. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 69% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 30 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around June 2. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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 14 · 71%Feb 17 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3862
Feb3664
Mar4159
Apr4357
May4753
Jun5545
Jul6931
Aug6931
Sep5446
Oct4951
Nov4159
Dec3862

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 18, brings about 15 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 8 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.07:254:25
Feb10.16:565:05
Mar11.66:075:44
Apr13.25:096:23
May14.64:247:00
Jun15.34:067:26
Jul15.04:207:23
Aug13.94:546:46
Sep12.35:315:49
Oct10.76:094:53
Nov9.46:514:12
Dec8.77:224:02

Sunny days

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

Lukavac averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Jun 12 to Nov 4. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 7 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1217 daysFeb 207 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May8Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul15Mixed
Aug16Bright
Sep11Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov9Mixed
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 Lukavac, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around June 1 to September 9. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 48% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 10 to May 31, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 19 · 100%Jul 31 · 43%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May801720
Jun3536254
Jul1933408
Aug2037357
Sep623070
Oct93700
Nov100000
Dec100000

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 Lukavac is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 21 · 8 km/hAug 16 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Lukavac

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Lukavac 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 Lukavac for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 27 · 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
Feb0.7poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr4.6fair
May5.7good
Jun6.4good
Jul6.7good
Aug6.9good
Sep6.6good
Oct5.5fair
Nov2.6poor
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 Lukavac for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 6.9

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 Lukavac, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear 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, Lukavac sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lukavac 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 Lukavac peaks around July 24 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighVery highModerateLowJul 24UV 8Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Lukavac

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 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
Mar50
Apr73
May7.53
Jun84.5
Jul84.5
Aug7.54
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Lukavac 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 Lukavac is worst in April — around 58 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 28 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Lukavac's WHO annual average of 42.8 µg/m³.

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyPoorModerateApr 1857 µg/m³Dec 1829 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan32Moderate
Feb38Poor
Mar49Poor
Apr58Unhealthy
May54Poor
Jun54Poor
Jul46Poor
Aug49Poor
Sep37Poor
Oct35Poor
Nov34Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Lukavac typically lasts about 276 days, from around March 3 to December 3 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 6 to October 27.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 350%Apr 690%Oct 2790%Dec 350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan3031
Feb3628
Mar6731
Apr946
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct957
Nov7430
Dec3931

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. Lukavac banks about 1,411 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr38
May170
Jun272
Jul337
Aug336
Sep198
Oct61
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.

Lukavac receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 19. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 78% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 76.0 kWhDec 201.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.3Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.2Dim

Where is Lukavac?

Lukavac sits at 44.5°N, 18.5°E, 194 m above sea level, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The nearest listed city is Tuzla, 11 km away.

GračanicaGradačacDobojBrčkoTeslicLoznicaBijeljina

Topography around Lukavac

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lukavac has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 180 m around an average of 224 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 665 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,848 m.

The land around Lukavac is covered by trees (49%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, trees (69%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (70%) within 80 km.

3 km
180 m
16 km
665 m
80 km
1,848 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Tuzla 11 km · Gračanica 25 km · Gradačac 38 km · Doboj 41 km · Brčko 43 km · Teslic 53 km · Loznica 57 km · Bijeljina 60 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 Lukavac (44.5425°, 18.5262°, elevation 194 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).