Climate and average weather in Asenovgrad

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

Best: late May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Asenovgrad typically varies from -4°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -13°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 Asenovgrad for warm-weather activities is from late May to early October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Jun
103 mm
Driest
Aug
50 mm
Rain / yr
872 mm
104 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
226 m
42.0°N
Clearest
Aug
26% cloud

Asenovgrad is city in Asenovgrad municipality, Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria.

Air quality
Elevated
PM10 52.3 µg/m³ · 2010
Density
702/km²
people per km²

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

Asenovgrad 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 May to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Asenovgrad, 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 29 to September 20, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Asenovgrad is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 25 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Asenovgrad is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 4°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-4
Feb7-2
Mar111
Apr165
May2010
Jun2413
Jul2715
Aug2715
Sep2211
Oct177
Nov112
Dec6-2

How hot and cold Asenovgrad 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 125 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)
Jan44-6-4
Feb77-5-2
Mar1111-11
Apr161645
May2020910
Jun24241313
Jul27271515
Aug27271515
Sep22221111
Oct171767
Nov111112
Dec66-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Asenovgrad

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 -4°C.

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

Asenovgrad 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 / -4°587.85.49.30.0
Feb / -2°588.14.710.30.7
Mar11° / 7910.73.911.72.6
Apr16° / 8010.90.913.14.7
May20° / 10°10211.8014.36.2
Jun24° / 13°1039.90157.1
Jul27° / 15°787.6014.77.5
Aug27° / 15°505.7013.77.8
Sep22° / 11°787012.37.6
Oct17° / 627.90.410.95.7
Nov11° / 5771.79.62.9
Dec / -2°709.44.990.3

Chance of rain

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

Asenovgrad gets about 872 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.4 months, from around Feb 12 to Jun 25, peaking in May at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 20.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 103 mm over about 10 wet days; August is the driest, with 50 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 19 · 39%Aug 20 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb298
Mar3411
Apr3711
May3812
Jun3310
Jul248
Aug196
Sep237
Oct258
Nov247
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Asenovgrad collects about 872 mm of rain across 104 wet days — roughly 73 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 103 mm, while August is the driest at just 50 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec58587980102103785078625770
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5885
Feb5885
Mar79114
Apr80111
May102120
Jun103100
Jul7880
Aug5060
Sep7870
Oct6280
Nov5772
Dec7095

Snow in Asenovgrad

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.

Asenovgrad averages about 22 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 21 to Apr 21 — about 6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 31 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 141 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan531
Feb526
Mar430
Apr15
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct02
Nov213
Dec535

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Asenovgrad, 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 1 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 3 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around May 31. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 50% 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 19 · 89%Dec 2 · 49%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5446
Feb5050
Mar5149
Apr5248
May5743
Jun7129
Jul8416
Aug8713
Sep7327
Oct5941
Nov5149
Dec5149

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 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 8 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.37:525:08
Feb10.37:265:44
Mar11.76:416:20
Apr13.15:476:55
May14.35:067:28
Jun15.04:497:52
Jul14.75:037:50
Aug13.75:337:16
Sep12.36:076:23
Oct10.96:405:31
Nov9.67:184:53
Dec9.07:484:45

Sunny days

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

Asenovgrad averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Jun 11 to Oct 2. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 10 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1823 daysApr 1510 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun15Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug23Bright
Sep18Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 5 to September 5. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 27% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 6 to June 4, 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 22 · 100%Jul 30 · 70%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May861310
Jun4540131
Jul3143251
Aug3842181
Sep732430
Oct94600
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 Asenovgrad 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/hOct 22 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Asenovgrad

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 29 · 8.0

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
Feb0.8poor
Mar2.6poor
Apr4.7fair
May6.2good
Jun7.1good
Jul7.5good
Aug7.8ideal
Sep7.6ideal
Oct5.7good
Nov2.9poor
Dec0.4poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 7.9

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 Asenovgrad, 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 and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Asenovgrad sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Asenovgrad 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 Asenovgrad peaks around June 23 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateVery highHighModerateLowJun 23UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr8Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Asenovgrad

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 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
Mar3.50
Apr74
May7.53.5
Jun8.55
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Asenovgrad typically lasts about 270 days, from around March 7 to December 1 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 12 to October 26.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 750%Apr 1290%Oct 2690%Dec 150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2431
Feb3228
Mar6031
Apr9212
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct966
Nov6930
Dec3331

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. Asenovgrad banks about 1,371 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr22
May151
Jun261
Jul336
Aug337
Sep204
Oct60
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.

Asenovgrad receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.6 and 6.5 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 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.7 kWh/m² — roughly 74% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 86.5 kWhDec 121.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Moderate
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar3.9Moderate
Apr5.1Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.4Intense
Aug5.9Bright
Sep4.4Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.0Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Asenovgrad?

Asenovgrad sits at 42.0°N, 24.9°E, 226 m above sea level, in Bulgaria. The nearest listed city is Plovdiv, 18 km away.

ParvomayRakovskiChirpanPeshteraPazardzhikSmolyanHaskovo

Topography around Asenovgrad

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Asenovgrad has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 646 m around an average of 304 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,402 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,294 m.

The land around Asenovgrad is covered by trees (31%), artificial surfaces (24%) and cropland (23%) within 3 km, trees (42%) and cropland (35%) within 16 km, and trees (55%) and cropland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
646 m
16 km
1,402 m
80 km
2,294 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Plovdiv 18 km · Parvomay 30 km · Rakovski 31 km · Chirpan 44 km · Peshtera 47 km · Pazardzhik 48 km · Smolyan 51 km · Haskovo 58 km

Bulgaria travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 23% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$20,328
2025
Happiness
5.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
96%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
9.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 594
Religion
Christian 65%Muslim 10%none 5%other 0%

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 Asenovgrad (42.0167°, 24.8667°, elevation 226 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).