Climate and average weather in Ferizaj

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

Best: late May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ferizaj typically varies from -4°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -10°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 Ferizaj for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
May
98 mm
Driest
Aug
50 mm
Rain / yr
788 mm
128 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
582 m
42.4°N
Clearest
Aug
36% cloud

Ferizaj is third largest city of Kosovo.

Density
83/km²
people per km²
Founded
1873

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

Ferizaj 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 31 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Ferizaj is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 23 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Ferizaj 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 13°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-4
Feb6-2
Mar111
Apr164
May209
Jun2512
Jul2714
Aug2814
Sep2311
Oct176
Nov102
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Ferizaj 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 28), with roughly 129 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
Feb66-5-2
Mar1111-11
Apr161634
May202089
Jun25251212
Jul27271414
Aug28281414
Sep23231111
Oct171766
Nov101002
Dec55-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Ferizaj

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Ferizaj 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°529.46.69.30.0
Feb / -2°539.56.310.30.6
Mar11° / 7412.1511.62.5
Apr16° / 8513.81.613.14.3
May20° / 9814.80.114.45.7
Jun25° / 12°78130156.5
Jul27° / 14°609.8014.86.8
Aug28° / 14°508.3013.76.9
Sep23° / 11°538.5012.37.1
Oct17° / 598.10.510.85.6
Nov10° / 599.72.99.62.4
Dec / -2°6710.66.190.1

Chance of rain

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

Ferizaj gets about 788 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 4.6 months, from around Feb 18 to Jul 6, peaking in May at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 30.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 98 mm over about 15 wet days; August is the driest, with 50 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 28 · 50%Oct 30 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan309
Feb3410
Mar3912
Apr4714
May4715
Jun4313
Jul3210
Aug278
Sep279
Oct268
Nov3210
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ferizaj collects about 788 mm of rain across 128 wet days — roughly 66 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 98 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.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec525374859878605053595967
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5297
Feb53106
Mar74125
Apr85142
May98150
Jun78130
Jul60100
Aug5080
Sep5390
Oct5981
Nov59103
Dec67116

Snow in Ferizaj

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.

Ferizaj averages about 29 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 18 to Apr 27 — about 6.3 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 37 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 166 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 6
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan730
Feb637
Mar527
Apr213
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov321
Dec634

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ferizaj, 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 4.4 months, ending around October 11. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 12 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 31. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 60% 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 · 82%Feb 19 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb4060
Mar4357
Apr4456
May4852
Jun6634
Jul7822
Aug8020
Sep6436
Oct5446
Nov4357
Dec4060

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 13, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.37:084:21
Feb10.36:414:59
Mar11.65:565:34
Apr13.15:016:10
May14.44:206:44
Jun15.04:037:08
Jul14.84:177:05
Aug13.74:476:31
Sep12.35:215:38
Oct10.85:564:45
Nov9.66:344:07
Dec9.07:043:59

Sunny days

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

Ferizaj averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 29. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 8 sunny days — about 56% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1719 daysFeb 217 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May8Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul17Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep13Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec9Mixed

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 Ferizaj, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 14% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 27 · 100%Aug 3 · 78%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9190
Jun54369
Jul453916
Aug473914
Sep80191
Oct9820
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 Ferizaj is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 14 · 6 km/hOct 14 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Ferizaj

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Ferizaj 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 Ferizaj for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 6 · 7.4

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
Mar2.5poor
Apr4.3fair
May5.7good
Jun6.5good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.1good
Oct5.5good
Nov2.4poor
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 Ferizaj 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 17 · 7.5

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 Ferizaj, 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 28°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, Ferizaj sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 14°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ferizaj 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 Ferizaj peaks around July 15 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 9Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr8Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Ferizaj

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
Apr73.5
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 Ferizaj typically lasts about 263 days, from around March 11 to November 28 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 15 to October 23.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1150%Apr 1590%Oct 2390%Nov 2850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2131
Feb2828
Mar5731
Apr9015
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9410
Nov6630
Dec3131

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. Ferizaj banks about 1,336 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
Apr18
May141
Jun255
Jul335
Aug339
Sep197
Oct51
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.

Ferizaj receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.5 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 21. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.5 kWh/m² — roughly 77% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 256.6 kWhDec 161.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.9Dim
Feb2.6Moderate
Mar3.9Moderate
Apr5.1Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.6Intense
Jul6.5Intense
Aug5.9Bright
Sep4.4Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.0Dim
Dec1.5Dim

Where is Ferizaj?

Ferizaj sits at 42.4°N, 21.2°E, 582 m above sea level, in Kosovo. The nearest listed city is Shtime, 12 km away.

ShtimeVitinaSuva RekaGjilanKosovo PoljePristinaTearceGlogovac

Topography around Ferizaj

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ferizaj has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 123 m around an average of 574 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,279 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,512 m.

The land around Ferizaj is covered by cropland (41%) and artificial surfaces (34%) within 3 km, trees (43%) and cropland (36%) within 16 km, and trees (51%) and grassland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
123 m
16 km
1,279 m
80 km
2,512 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Shtime 12 km · Vitina 18 km · Suva Reka 27 km · Gjilan 28 km · Kosovo Polje 33 km · Pristina 34 km · Tearce 34 km · Glogovac 36 km

Kosovo travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 41% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$7,899
2025
Homicide rate
1.9
per 100k, 2021
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 96%Roman Catholic 2%Orthodox 2%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 Ferizaj (42.3706°, 21.1553°, elevation 582 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).