Climate and average weather in Tuzla

In Tuzla, 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 Tuzla typically varies from -3°C to 26°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 Tuzla for warm-weather activities is from early May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Jun
119 mm
Driest
Jan
68 mm
Rain / yr
1045 mm
145 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
225 m
44.5°N
Clearest
Aug
42% cloud

Tuzla is city in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Air quality
Very high
PM2.5 41.5 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
471/km²
people per km²
Founded
~950 CE

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

Tuzla 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 Tuzla, 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 23 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Tuzla is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 24 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Tuzla is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 4°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)
Jan4-3
Feb6-2
Mar111
Apr166
May2110
Jun2414
Jul2615
Aug2615
Sep2211
Oct177
Nov112
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Tuzla 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 -7°C (around January 30), with roughly 127 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
Mar1111-11
Apr161646
May21211010
Jun24241414
Jul26261515
Aug26261515
Sep22221111
Oct171757
Nov111112
Dec55-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Tuzla

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

Tuzla 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°6811.47.990.0
Feb / -2°6911.5710.10.6
Mar11° / 8412.74.611.62.7
Apr16° / 9613.71.413.24.6
May21° / 10°11615.1014.65.7
Jun24° / 14°11914.6015.36.2
Jul26° / 15°10312.50156.5
Aug26° / 15°8010.5013.96.8
Sep22° / 11°8610.8012.36.6
Oct17° / 739.60.510.75.4
Nov11° / 7310.73.19.42.6
Dec / -2°77126.68.70.2

Chance of rain

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

Tuzla gets about 1045 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 3.9 months, from around Mar 16 to Jul 11, peaking in May at about 51% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 29.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 119 mm over about 15 wet days; January is the driest, with 68 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 28 · 51%Oct 29 · 29%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3711
Feb4112
Mar4113
Apr4614
May4915
Jun4715
Jul4113
Aug3411
Sep3611
Oct3110
Nov3511
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tuzla collects about 1045 mm of rain across 145 wet days — roughly 87 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 119 mm, while January is the driest at just 68 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec686984961161191038086737377
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan68118
Feb69127
Mar84135
Apr96141
May116150
Jun119150
Jul103130
Aug80110
Sep86110
Oct73101
Nov73113
Dec77127

Snow in Tuzla

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.

Tuzla averages about 31 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 15 to Apr 29 — about 6.5 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 45 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 187 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 17
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan835
Feb745
Mar522
Apr112
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct12
Nov327
Dec745

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tuzla, 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 4.6 months, ending around October 19. The clearest month is August, 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 20 and lasts for 7.4 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 · 72%Feb 18 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3763
Feb3664
Mar4159
Apr4357
May4753
Jun5545
Jul6832
Aug6931
Sep5545
Oct4951
Nov4159
Dec3763

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)
Jan9.07:254:24
Feb10.16:555:04
Mar11.66:065:43
Apr13.25:086:23
May14.64:247:00
Jun15.34:057:26
Jul15.04:197:22
Aug13.94:536:46
Sep12.35:315:49
Oct10.76:084:52
Nov9.46:504:11
Dec8.77:224:01

Sunny days

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

Tuzla 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 11 to Nov 3. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 7 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1117 daysFeb 207 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
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 Tuzla, 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 8. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 44% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 9 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 24 · 100%Aug 1 · 41%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May801830
Jun3436264
Jul1931419
Aug2135378
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 Tuzla 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 23 · 8 km/hAug 18 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Tuzla

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Tuzla 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 Tuzla 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 23 · 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
Feb0.6poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr4.6fair
May5.7good
Jun6.2good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.8good
Sep6.6good
Oct5.4fair
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 Tuzla 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 Tuzla, 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, 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, Tuzla sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tuzla 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 Tuzla peaks around July 18 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 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 18UV 8Dec 19UV 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 Tuzla

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 Tuzla 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 Tuzla is worst in April — around 56 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 27 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Tuzla's WHO annual average of 41.5 µg/m³.

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorPoorModerateApr 1856 µg/m³Dec 1828 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan31Moderate
Feb37Poor
Mar48Poor
Apr56Unhealthy
May52Poor
Jun52Poor
Jul45Poor
Aug47Poor
Sep36Poor
Oct34Moderate
Nov33Moderate
Dec27Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Tuzla typically lasts about 270 days, from around March 6 to November 30 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 9 to October 24.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 650%Apr 990%Oct 2490%Nov 3050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2531
Feb3228
Mar6331
Apr939
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct949
Nov7130
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. Tuzla banks about 1,386 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
Apr36
May167
Jun269
Jul332
Aug332
Sep194
Oct56
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.

Tuzla 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 191.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.3Moderate
Mar3.6Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct2.7Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.3Dim

Where is Tuzla?

Tuzla sits at 44.5°N, 18.7°E, 225 m above sea level, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The nearest listed city is Lukavac, 11 km away.

GračanicaBrčkoGradačacLoznicaBijeljinaDobojTeslic

Topography around Tuzla

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tuzla has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 266 m around an average of 302 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 753 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,576 m.

The land around Tuzla is covered by trees (65%) and artificial surfaces (24%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and grassland (24%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) within 80 km.

3 km
266 m
16 km
753 m
80 km
1,576 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Lukavac 11 km · Gračanica 34 km · Brčko 39 km · Gradačac 42 km · Loznica 46 km · Bijeljina 50 km · Doboj 51 km · Teslic 64 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 Tuzla (44.5384°, 18.6671°, elevation 225 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).