Climate and average weather in Gevgelija

In Gevgelija, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late April to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gevgelija typically varies from -2°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -9°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 times of year to visit Gevgelija for warm-weather activities are from late April to mid July and mid August to late October.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
-2°
Wettest
Dec
93 mm
Driest
Aug
49 mm
Rain / yr
886 mm
116 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
30 m
41.1°N
Clearest
Aug
27% cloud

Gevgelija is town and seat of Gevgelija Municipality, North Macedonia.

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

Gevgelija 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 July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Gevgelija, 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 June 1 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Gevgelija is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 23 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Gevgelija is January, with an average low of -2°C and high of 6°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)
Jan6-2
Feb80
Mar123
Apr177
May2211
Jun2715
Jul3017
Aug3018
Sep2514
Oct189
Nov124
Dec70

How hot and cold Gevgelija 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 3), with roughly 99 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan66-4-2
Feb88-30
Mar121213
Apr171767
May22221111
Jun27271515
Jul30301717
Aug30301818
Sep25251414
Oct181889
Nov121234
Dec77-30

Average hourly temperature in Gevgelija

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -2°C.

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

Gevgelija 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°709.24.59.40.3
Feb / -0°659.33.810.41.4
Mar12° / 7910.62.411.73.4
Apr17° / 8011.60.513.15.1
May22° / 11°8413.3014.36.3
Jun27° / 15°7211.3014.96.5
Jul30° / 17°557.7014.75.9
Aug30° / 18°497.3013.66.0
Sep25° / 14°688.5012.37.4
Oct18° / 838.40.110.96.2
Nov12° / 8991.29.73.3
Dec / -1°939.43.69.10.8

Chance of rain

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

Gevgelija gets about 886 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 3.2 months, from around Mar 21 to Jun 24, peaking in May at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 30.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 93 mm over about 9 wet days; August is the driest, with 49 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 17 · 44%Oct 30 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan309
Feb339
Mar3411
Apr4012
May4313
Jun3711
Jul258
Aug247
Sep279
Oct278
Nov309
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gevgelija collects about 886 mm of rain across 116 wet days — roughly 74 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 93 mm, while August is the driest at just 49 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec706579808472554968838993
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan7095
Feb6594
Mar79112
Apr80121
May84130
Jun72110
Jul5580
Aug4970
Sep6890
Oct8380
Nov8991
Dec9394

Snow in Gevgelija

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.

Gevgelija averages about 16 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 1 to Apr 16 — about 5.5 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 21 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 92 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 30
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan521
Feb420
Mar217
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov18
Dec424

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gevgelija, 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 28 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 5. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 6 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 27. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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 · 91%Nov 26 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb4753
Mar5149
Apr5248
May5644
Jun7525
Jul9010
Aug9010
Sep7327
Oct5842
Nov4555
Dec4753

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 17, brings about 15 hours of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.46:594:20
Feb10.46:344:55
Mar11.75:505:29
Apr13.14:576:03
May14.34:176:35
Jun14.94:026:59
Jul14.74:156:56
Aug13.64:446:24
Sep12.35:165:32
Oct10.95:494:41
Nov9.76:264:05
Dec9.16:553:58

Sunny days

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

Gevgelija averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Jun 7 to Oct 11. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is November, down near 10 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1524 daysNov 239 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul23Bright
Aug23Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov10Mixed
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 Gevgelija, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around June 2 to September 19. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 25% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 20 to June 1, 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 26 · 100%Aug 3 · 66%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May811810
Jun4340161
Jul3342241
Aug3244231
Sep623070
Oct871210
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 Gevgelija is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 16 · 7 km/hOct 22 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Gevgelija

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early July, Gevgelija is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 times of year to visit Gevgelija for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to mid July and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 16 · 7.5

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
Jan0.4poor
Feb1.4poor
Mar3.4poor
Apr5.1fair
May6.3good
Jun6.5good
Jul5.9good
Aug6.0good
Sep7.3good
Oct6.2good
Nov3.3poor
Dec0.8poor

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 Gevgelija 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 21 · 8.0

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 Gevgelija, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 6°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Gevgelija sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Gevgelija 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 Gevgelija peaks around June 22 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 highHighModerateLowJun 22UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Gevgelija

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 5.5 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
Mar4.50
Apr73.5
May73
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55
Aug7.54.5
Sep61.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Gevgelija typically lasts about 296 days, from around February 19 to December 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 27 to November 6.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1950%Mar 2790%Nov 690%Dec 1150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan3331
Feb4628
Mar7928
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov8224
Dec4631

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. Gevgelija banks about 1,820 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr57
May206
Jun332
Jul419
Aug422
Sep272
Oct113
Nov1
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.

Gevgelija receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.6 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 22. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.7 kWh/m² — roughly 75% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 46.9 kWhDec 111.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Moderate
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar4.0Moderate
Apr5.2Bright
May6.0Bright
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.0Intense
Sep4.6Bright
Oct3.1Moderate
Nov2.0Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Gevgelija?

Gevgelija sits at 41.1°N, 22.5°E, 30 m above sea level, in North Macedonia. The nearest listed city is Strumica, 35 km away.

StrumicaKilkísGiannitsáNegotinoKavadarciÉdessaRadovis

Topography around Gevgelija

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gevgelija has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 172 m around an average of 77 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,069 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,502 m.

The land around Gevgelija is covered by cropland (27%) within 3 km, trees (48%) within 16 km, and trees (47%), cropland (24%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
172 m
16 km
1,069 m
80 km
2,502 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Strumica 35 km · Kilkís 35 km · Giannitsá 40 km · Chalkidóna 46 km · Negotino 51 km · Kavadarci 52 km · Édessa 54 km · Radovis 55 km

North Macedonia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 37% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$10,490
2025
Happiness
5.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
81%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.5
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 595
Religion
Orthodox 46%Islam 32%Christian 13%Other 7%

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 Gevgelija (41.1429°, 22.5011°, elevation 30 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).