Climate and average weather in Resen

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

Best: early June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Resen typically varies from -3°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -9°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 Resen for warm-weather activities is from early June to late September.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Dec
77 mm
Driest
Aug
31 mm
Rain / yr
711 mm
113 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
866 m
41.1°N
Clearest
Aug
30% cloud

Resen is town and seat of Resen Municipality, Macedonia.

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

Resen 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 June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.5 months, from June 5 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Resen is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 25 to March 9, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Resen is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in July.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-3
Feb5-2
Mar91
Apr134
May188
Jun2212
Jul2515
Aug2616
Sep2112
Oct168
Nov103
Dec5-1

How hot and cold Resen 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 28), with roughly 120 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)
Jan34-5-3
Feb55-4-2
Mar99-11
Apr131334
May181878
Jun22221212
Jul25251515
Aug26261616
Sep21211212
Oct161678
Nov101023
Dec55-3-1

Average hourly temperature in Resen

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Resen 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°639.77.59.40.0
Feb / -2°629.86.810.40.2
Mar / 7211.65.811.71.7
Apr13° / 7312.81.713.13.5
May18° / 6911.80.114.35.6
Jun22° / 12°428.4014.97.2
Jul25° / 15°346.4014.77.9
Aug26° / 16°316.6013.67.8
Sep21° / 12°517.5012.37.1
Oct16° / 647.90.510.95.4
Nov10° / 729.52.39.72.3
Dec / -1°7710.669.10.1

Chance of rain

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

Resen gets about 711 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 4.7 months, from around Jan 18 to Jun 9, peaking in April at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 15.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 77 mm over about 11 wet days; August is the driest, with 31 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 16 · 44%Jul 15 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb3610
Mar3712
Apr4313
May3712
Jun298
Jul216
Aug227
Sep258
Oct258
Nov3210
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Resen collects about 711 mm of rain across 113 wet days — roughly 59 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 77 mm, while August is the driest at just 31 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 31% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec636272736942343151647277
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan63108
Feb62107
Mar72126
Apr73132
May69120
Jun4280
Jul3460
Aug3170
Sep5180
Oct6481
Nov72102
Dec77116

Snow in Resen

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.

Resen averages about 31 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 19 to Apr 27 — about 6.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 35 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 192 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan835
Feb748
Mar636
Apr210
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov221
Dec640

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Resen, 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 26 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 6. The clearest month is July, 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 7 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 25. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 62% 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 17 · 89%Dec 3 · 37%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4159
Feb4159
Mar4555
Apr4555
May5347
Jun7426
Jul8713
Aug8713
Sep6733
Oct5545
Nov4258
Dec3862

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 hours of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.47:054:26
Feb10.46:405:01
Mar11.75:565:35
Apr13.15:036:09
May14.34:236:41
Jun14.94:087:04
Jul14.74:217:02
Aug13.64:506:30
Sep12.35:225:38
Oct10.95:554:47
Nov9.76:314:11
Dec9.17:004:04

Sunny days

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

Resen averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Jun 2 to Oct 26. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 8 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1721 daysDec 77 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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 Resen, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% 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
Jun75250
Jul54424
Aug50473
Sep85150
Oct9910
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 Resen is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 5 · 6 km/hAug 13 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Resen

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Resen 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 time of year to visit Resen for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 12 · 8.1

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
Feb0.3poor
Mar1.7poor
Apr3.5poor
May5.6good
Jun7.2good
Jul7.9ideal
Aug7.8ideal
Sep7.1good
Oct5.3fair
Nov2.3poor
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 Resen for hot-weather activities is from late June to early September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 7.4

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 Resen, 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 26°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, Resen sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 16°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Resen 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 Resen peaks around June 23 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 10Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr8Very high
May7High
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Resen

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
Mar50
Apr73.5
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep6.52
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Resen 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 Resen is worst in May — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMay 1315 µg/m³Dec 188 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb11Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov10Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Resen typically lasts about 271 days, from around March 12 to December 7 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 9 to November 9.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1250%Apr 990%Nov 990%Dec 750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2531
Feb3028
Mar5731
Apr937
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8221
Dec4131

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. Resen banks about 1,218 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May93
Jun218
Jul315
Aug331
Sep198
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.

Resen 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 20 to Sep 21. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.6 kWh/m² — roughly 76% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 16.9 kWhDec 131.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Dim
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar4.0Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May5.9Bright
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.0Intense
Sep4.5Bright
Oct3.2Moderate
Nov2.0Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Resen?

Resen sits at 41.1°N, 21.0°E, 866 m above sea level, in North Macedonia. The nearest listed city is Ohrid, 18 km away.

OhridBitolaStrugaPustecPogradecKruševoVevčaniKičevo

Topography around Resen

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Resen has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 168 m around an average of 909 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,459 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,497 m.

The land around Resen is covered by trees (46%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (54%) and grassland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
168 m
16 km
1,459 m
80 km
2,497 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ohrid 18 km · Bitola 28 km · Struga 29 km · Pustec 35 km · Pogradec 36 km · Kruševo 37 km · Vevčani 39 km · Kičevo 47 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 Resen (41.09°, 21.0088°, elevation 866 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).