Climate and average weather in Lipkovo

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

Best: early May to late July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lipkovo typically varies from -3°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 35°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Lipkovo for warm-weather activities are from early May to late July and mid August to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
29°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
May
79 mm
Driest
Aug
39 mm
Rain / yr
693 mm
116 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
441 m
42.2°N
Clearest
Aug
33% cloud

Lipkovo is village in Lipkovo Municipality, North Macedonia.

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

Lipkovo 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 late July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Lipkovo, 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 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Lipkovo is August, with an average high of 29°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 22 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Lipkovo is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-3
Feb7-2
Mar121
Apr175
May2210
Jun2613
Jul2915
Aug2915
Sep2411
Oct187
Nov112
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Lipkovo 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 27), with roughly 126 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
Feb77-4-2
Mar1212-11
Apr171745
May2222910
Jun26261313
Jul29291515
Aug29291515
Sep24241111
Oct171867
Nov111102
Dec55-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Lipkovo

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Lipkovo 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°489.15.49.30.0
Feb / -2°498.45.210.30.9
Mar12° / 6910.83.711.63.0
Apr17° / 7312.41.113.14.9
May22° / 10°7913.5014.46.2
Jun26° / 13°6812.10156.5
Jul29° / 15°478.7014.86.1
Aug29° / 15°397013.76.3
Sep24° / 11°467012.37.5
Oct18° / 557.20.310.86.0
Nov11° / 569.32.29.62.6
Dec / -2°6510.1590.2

Chance of rain

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

Lipkovo gets about 693 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 4.5 months, from around Feb 19 to Jul 6, peaking in May at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 21.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 79 mm over about 14 wet days; August is the driest, with 39 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 29 · 45%Aug 21 · 20%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb318
Mar3511
Apr4112
May4214
Jun4012
Jul289
Aug237
Sep237
Oct247
Nov319
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lipkovo collects about 693 mm of rain across 116 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 79 mm, while August is the driest at just 39 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec484969737968473946555665
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4895
Feb4985
Mar69114
Apr73121
May79140
Jun68120
Jul4790
Aug3970
Sep4670
Oct5570
Nov5692
Dec65105

Snow in Lipkovo

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.

Lipkovo averages about 23 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 24 to Apr 24 — about 6 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 30 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 128 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 9
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan525
Feb530
Mar420
Apr18
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct02
Nov217
Dec527

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lipkovo, 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 30 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 6. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 7 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 29. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 61% 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 · 85%Dec 4 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb4060
Mar4555
Apr4654
May5050
Jun7030
Jul8317
Aug8416
Sep6733
Oct5446
Nov4357
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 15, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan9.37:064:20
Feb10.36:394:57
Mar11.65:545:33
Apr13.15:006:08
May14.44:186:41
Jun15.04:027:06
Jul14.84:157:03
Aug13.74:466:29
Sep12.35:205:36
Oct10.85:544:44
Nov9.66:324:06
Dec9.07:023:58

Sunny days

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

Lipkovo 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 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Jun 6 to Oct 28. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 8 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1620 daysFeb 207 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul18Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Mixed

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 Lipkovo, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 2 to September 2. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 16% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 3 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 2 · 75%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May88111
Jun503812
Jul433818
Aug473715
Sep78212
Oct9640
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 Lipkovo is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 1 · 7 km/hOct 22 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Lipkovo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, Lipkovo 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 Lipkovo for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to late July and again from mid August to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 13 · 7.6

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
Feb0.9poor
Mar3.0poor
Apr4.9fair
May6.2good
Jun6.5good
Jul6.1good
Aug6.3good
Sep7.4good
Oct5.9good
Nov2.7poor
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 Lipkovo 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 19 · 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 Lipkovo, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes 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, Lipkovo sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lipkovo 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 Lipkovo peaks around July 15 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 highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Lipkovo

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 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
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Lipkovo 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 Lipkovo is worst in May — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMay 1316 µg/m³Dec 169 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb12Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct11Good
Nov11Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Lipkovo typically lasts about 275 days, from around March 4 to December 3 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 12 to October 23.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 450%Apr 1290%Oct 2390%Dec 350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2431
Feb3328
Mar6431
Apr9211
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9410
Nov7030
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. Lipkovo banks about 1,521 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
Apr33
May173
Jun288
Jul368
Aug370
Sep223
Oct66
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.

Lipkovo 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 296.6 kWhDec 151.5 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
Nov1.9Dim
Dec1.5Dim

Where is Lipkovo?

Lipkovo sits at 42.2°N, 21.6°E, 441 m above sea level, in North Macedonia. The nearest listed city is Kumanovo, 11 km away.

ButelIlindenŠuto OrizareČairStaro NagoričaneSkopjeKisela Voda

Topography around Lipkovo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lipkovo has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 579 m around an average of 577 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,413 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,574 m.

The land around Lipkovo is covered by trees (41%) and grassland (35%) within 3 km, trees (39%), cropland (30%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and grassland (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
579 m
16 km
1,413 m
80 km
2,574 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Kumanovo 11 km · Butel 18 km · Ilinden 18 km · Šuto Orizare 19 km · Čair 20 km · Staro Nagoričane 21 km · Skopje 22 km · Kisela Voda 24 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 Lipkovo (42.157°, 21.5856°, elevation 441 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).