Climate and average weather in Prijedor

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

Best: late April to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Prijedor typically varies from -2°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 34°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Prijedor for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
28°
Coldest
Jan
-2°
Wettest
May
109 mm
Driest
Feb
67 mm
Rain / yr
1006 mm
131 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
140 m
45.0°N
Clearest
Aug
42% cloud

Prijedor is city in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Air quality
Very high
PM2.5 36.7 µg/m³ · 2016
Density
44/km²
people per km²
Founded
2012

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

Prijedor 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 late April to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 23 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Prijedor is July, with an average high of 28°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 22 to February 26, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Prijedor is January, with an average low of -2°C and high of 5°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in July.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan5-2
Feb7-1
Mar132
Apr176
May2211
Jun2514
Jul2816
Aug2716
Sep2312
Oct177
Nov113
Dec6-1

How hot and cold Prijedor 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 -5°C (around January 28), with roughly 112 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)
Jan55-5-2
Feb77-4-1
Mar131302
Apr171756
May22221011
Jun25251414
Jul28281616
Aug28271616
Sep23231212
Oct171767
Nov111123
Dec66-3-1

Average hourly temperature in Prijedor

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 July afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -2°C.

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

Prijedor 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 / -2°6810.25.990.0
Feb / -1°679.85.310.11.0
Mar13° / 7511.33.211.63.4
Apr17° / 8612.50.813.25.1
May22° / 11°10913.2014.66.2
Jun25° / 14°9511.9015.36.6
Jul28° / 16°8710.9015.16.5
Aug27° / 16°759013.96.6
Sep23° / 12°10110.5012.36.7
Oct17° / 789.70.310.75.5
Nov11° / 8710.52.39.32.7
Dec / -1°781158.60.3

Chance of rain

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

Prijedor gets about 1006 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 3.0 months, from around Mar 23 to Jun 22, peaking in May at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 17.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 109 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 67 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 29 · 44%Aug 17 · 29%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3310
Feb3610
Mar3611
Apr4213
May4313
Jun3912
Jul3511
Aug309
Sep3511
Oct3110
Nov3411
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Prijedor collects about 1006 mm of rain across 131 wet days — roughly 84 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 109 mm, while February is the driest at just 67 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec68677586109958775101788778
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan68106
Feb67105
Mar75113
Apr86131
May109130
Jun95120
Jul87110
Aug7590
Sep101110
Oct78100
Nov87112
Dec78115

Snow in Prijedor

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.

Prijedor averages about 23 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 24 to Apr 25 — about 6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 33 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 146 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan633
Feb535
Mar313
Apr18
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov224
Dec532

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Prijedor, 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 10 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 21. 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 22 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 9. The cloudiest month is December, 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 12 · 71%Dec 4 · 31%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3763
Mar4357
Apr4456
May5050
Jun5941
Jul6931
Aug6832
Sep5545
Oct5050
Nov3862
Dec3466

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 12, brings about 15 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.07:344:31
Feb10.17:045:11
Mar11.66:145:51
Apr13.25:166:31
May14.64:307:09
Jun15.34:117:35
Jul15.14:267:32
Aug13.95:006:54
Sep12.35:385:57
Oct10.76:175:00
Nov9.36:594:18
Dec8.67:314:07

Sunny days

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

Prijedor averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.6 months, from around Jun 5 to Oct 21. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 7 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1117 daysDec 46 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul15Bright
Aug16Bright
Sep11Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov8Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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 Prijedor, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around May 26 to September 14. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 55% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 15 to May 25, 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 11 · 100%Aug 1 · 31%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr98200
May712260
Jun27342910
Jul14283819
Aug15314014
Sep5233151
Oct881110
Nov99100
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 Prijedor 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 22 · 7 km/hAug 17 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Prijedor

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 31 · 7.0

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
Feb1.0poor
Mar3.4poor
Apr5.1fair
May6.1good
Jun6.5good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.6good
Sep6.7good
Oct5.5good
Nov2.7poor
Dec0.3poor

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 Prijedor for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 13 · 7.3

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 Prijedor, 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 July (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 5°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Prijedor sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Prijedor 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 Prijedor peaks around July 14 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 highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7Very high
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Prijedor

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
Mar50
Apr73
May72.5
Jun84.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54
Sep5.50
Oct1.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Prijedor 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 Prijedor is worst in March — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Prijedor's WHO annual average of 36.7 µg/m³.

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorPoorModerateMar 2246 µg/m³Dec 1130 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan36Poor
Feb37Poor
Mar47Poor
Apr46Poor
May41Poor
Jun40Poor
Jul34Moderate
Aug37Poor
Sep31Moderate
Oct31Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Prijedor typically lasts about 283 days, from around February 28 to December 7 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 4 to November 6.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2850%Apr 490%Nov 690%Dec 750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan3231
Feb3828
Mar7231
Apr963
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct970
Nov7927
Dec4231

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. Prijedor banks about 1,544 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
Apr52
May188
Jun295
Jul366
Aug360
Sep213
Oct69
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.

Prijedor receives about 3.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.1 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 17. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.2 kWh/m² — roughly 80% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 56.1 kWhDec 151.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.4Dim
Feb2.3Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul6.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep3.7Moderate
Oct2.5Moderate
Nov1.5Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Prijedor?

Prijedor sits at 45.0°N, 16.7°E, 140 m above sea level, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The nearest listed city is Banja Luka, 45 km away.

Banja LukaBosanska KrupaCazinBihaćVelika KladušaJajcePožega

Topography around Prijedor

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Prijedor has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m around an average of 144 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 705 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,852 m.

The land around Prijedor is covered by grassland (38%), trees (24%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
66 m
16 km
705 m
80 km
1,852 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Banja Luka 45 km · Bosanska Krupa 46 km · Sisak 60 km · Cazin 61 km · Bihać 69 km · Velika Kladuša 75 km · Jajce 83 km · Požega 86 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 Prijedor (44.9799°, 16.714°, elevation 140 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).