Climate and average weather in Pejë

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

Best: mid June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pejë typically varies from -6°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -14°C or above 30°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 Pejë for warm-weather activities is from mid June to late September.

Hottest
Aug
24°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
May
115 mm
Driest
Aug
70 mm
Rain / yr
1109 mm
155 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
550 m
42.7°N
Clearest
Aug
42% cloud

Pejë is city in Kosovo.

Density
81/km²
people per km²

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

Pejë 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 mid June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 30 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Pejë is August, with an average high of 24°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 24 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Pejë is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 2°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)
Jan2-6
Feb4-5
Mar8-2
Apr132
May187
Jun2210
Jul2412
Aug2412
Sep208
Oct154
Nov80
Dec3-4

How hot and cold Pejë 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 -9°C (around January 26), with roughly 158 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22-9-6
Feb44-7-5
Mar88-4-2
Apr131312
May171867
Jun22221010
Jul24241212
Aug24241212
Sep202088
Oct141534
Nov88-20
Dec33-7-4

Average hourly temperature in Pejë

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Pejë 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 / -6°77119.99.20.0
Feb / -5°8111.310.510.30.0
Mar / -2°9813.49.611.61.2
Apr13° / 10315.54.213.12.9
May18° / 11516.80.714.44.8
Jun22° / 10°9815.5015.15.9
Jul24° / 12°8913.5014.86.7
Aug24° / 12°7012.4013.76.8
Sep20° / 9111.80.112.36.0
Oct15° / 8510.21.310.84.3
Nov / -0°9811.44.69.61.5
Dec / -5°10412.19.78.90.0

Chance of rain

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

Pejë gets about 1109 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 3.7 months, from around Mar 24 to Jul 14, peaking in May at about 57% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 29.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 115 mm over about 17 wet days; August is the driest, with 70 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 29 · 57%Oct 29 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb4111
Mar4313
Apr5216
May5417
Jun5116
Jul4414
Aug4112
Sep3812
Oct3410
Nov3711
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pejë collects about 1109 mm of rain across 155 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 115 mm, while August is the driest at just 70 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec778198103115988970918598104
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan771110
Feb811111
Mar981310
Apr103164
May115171
Jun98160
Jul89140
Aug70120
Sep91120
Oct85101
Nov98115
Dec1041210

Snow in Pejë

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.

Pejë averages about 51 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 2 to May 27 — about 7.8 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 69 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 306 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 18
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1052
Feb1169
Mar1053
Apr434
May13
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct19
Nov531
Dec1057

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pejë, 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 4 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around October 4. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 29 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around June 3. 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 19 · 74%Feb 21 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4159
Feb3664
Mar4060
Apr4060
May4258
Jun5941
Jul6931
Aug7129
Sep5446
Oct4951
Nov4060
Dec3961

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 10, 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)
Jan9.27:124:24
Feb10.36:455:02
Mar11.65:595:38
Apr13.15:046:14
May14.44:226:48
Jun15.14:067:13
Jul14.84:197:10
Aug13.74:506:36
Sep12.35:255:42
Oct10.85:594:48
Nov9.66:384:10
Dec8.97:094:01

Sunny days

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

Pejë averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Jun 11 to Sep 26. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 6 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1916 daysMay 86 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun10Mixed
Jul14Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct10Mixed
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 Pejë, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9910
Jun79201
Jul61372
Aug64351
Sep9460
Oct10000
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 Pejë is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 18 · 6 km/hAug 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 Pejë

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Pejë 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 Pejë for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 22 · 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
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.2poor
Apr3.0poor
May4.8fair
Jun5.9good
Jul6.7good
Aug6.8good
Sep6.0good
Oct4.3fair
Nov1.5poor
Dec0.0poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 17 · 6.1

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 Pejë, 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 24°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Pejë sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 12°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pejë 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 Pejë peaks around July 14 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 9Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr8Very high
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Pejë

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
Mar5.50
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 Pejë typically lasts about 229 days, from around March 31 to November 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 25 to October 14.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 3150%Apr 2590%Oct 1490%Nov 1450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1828
Mar3431
Apr7524
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8618
Nov4930
Dec1931

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. Pejë banks about 871 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May63
Jun177
Jul246
Aug252
Sep121
Oct12
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.

Pejë receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.5 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.6 kWh/m² — roughly 75% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 266.4 kWhDec 191.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.9Dim
Feb2.7Moderate
Mar3.9Moderate
Apr5.0Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.7Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov1.9Dim
Dec1.5Dim

Where is Pejë?

Pejë sits at 42.7°N, 20.3°E, 550 m above sea level, in Kosovo. The nearest listed city is Deçan, 13 km away.

DeçanIstokGjakovëLlazicëOrahovacGlogovacZvečanMitrovicë

Topography around Pejë

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pejë has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 640 m around an average of 630 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,114 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,613 m.

The land around Pejë is covered by trees (45%), artificial surfaces (25%) and grassland (20%) within 3 km, trees (54%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (58%) and grassland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
640 m
16 km
2,114 m
80 km
2,613 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Deçan 13 km · Istok 21 km · Gjakovë 33 km · Llazicë 41 km · Orahovac 42 km · Glogovac 50 km · Zvečan 53 km · Mitrovicë 53 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 Pejë (42.6591°, 20.2883°, elevation 550 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).