Climate and average weather in Vevčani

In Vevčani, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and mostly 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 Vevčani typically varies from -4°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -11°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 Vevčani for warm-weather activities is from early June to late September.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Dec
123 mm
Driest
Aug
40 mm
Rain / yr
1051 mm
132 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
41.2°N
Clearest
Aug
31% cloud

Vevčani is village and seat of Vevčani Municipality, North Macedonia.

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

Vevčani 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 Vevčani, 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 3 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Vevčani is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 27 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Vevčani is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-4
Feb6-2
Mar90
Apr144
May188
Jun2312
Jul2515
Aug2615
Sep2111
Oct167
Nov112
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Vevčani 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 24), with roughly 127 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
Mar99-20
Apr141434
May181888
Jun23231212
Jul25251515
Aug26261515
Sep21211111
Oct161667
Nov111112
Dec55-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Vevčani

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 -4°C.

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

Vevčani 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°10711.38.79.40.0
Feb / -3°9811.17.310.30.3
Mar / 10712.66.111.71.8
Apr14° / 10114.52.113.13.5
May18° / 9213.9014.35.5
Jun23° / 12°5911014.96.9
Jul25° / 15°478.4014.77.6
Aug26° / 15°407.6013.77.6
Sep21° / 11°799.6012.36.8
Oct16° / 909.50.410.95.3
Nov11° / 10810.82.39.72.5
Dec / -2°123126.49.10.2

Chance of rain

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

Vevčani gets about 1051 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 4.9 months, from around Jan 19 to Jun 15, peaking in April at about 50% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 18.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 123 mm over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 40 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 15 · 50%Aug 18 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb4011
Mar4113
Apr4815
May4414
Jun3711
Jul278
Aug258
Sep3110
Oct3110
Nov3611
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Vevčani collects about 1051 mm of rain across 132 wet days — roughly 88 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 123 mm, while August is the driest at just 40 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10798107101925947407990108123
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan107119
Feb98117
Mar107136
Apr101152
May92140
Jun59110
Jul4780
Aug4080
Sep79100
Oct90100
Nov108112
Dec123126

Snow in Vevčani

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.

Vevčani averages about 33 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 21 to Apr 29 — about 6.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 51 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 233 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 26
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan951
Feb758
Mar641
Apr214
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct03
Nov218
Dec650

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Vevčani, 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 5.0 months, ending around October 24. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 25. The cloudiest month is February, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 16 · 90%Dec 3 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4060
Feb3862
Mar4357
Apr4357
May5248
Jun7327
Jul8812
Aug8614
Sep6436
Oct5545
Nov4357
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 16, brings about 15 hours of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.47:074:27
Feb10.36:425:03
Mar11.75:585:37
Apr13.15:056:11
May14.34:256:43
Jun14.94:097:07
Jul14.74:227:04
Aug13.74:526:32
Sep12.35:245:40
Oct10.95:564:49
Nov9.76:344:12
Dec9.17:034:05

Sunny days

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

Vevčani 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 3.7 months, from around Jun 6 to Sep 25. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 8 sunny days — about 62% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1821 daysDec 77 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Mixed
Mar8Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun15Mixed
Jul20Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep13Mixed
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 Vevčani, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 6% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 11 · 100%Aug 1 · 88%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun67312
Jul43498
Aug42526
Sep81190
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 Vevčani is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 10 · 6 km/hAug 5 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Vevčani

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 22 · 7.8

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
Feb0.4poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr3.5fair
May5.5fair
Jun6.9good
Jul7.6ideal
Aug7.6ideal
Sep6.8good
Oct5.3fair
Nov2.5poor
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 Vevčani 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 16 · 7.3

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 Vevčani, 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, Vevčani sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 15°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Vevčani 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 Vevčani peaks around July 15 at about 10 (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 10Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5High
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Vevčani

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 6 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
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep61.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Vevčani typically lasts about 262 days, from around March 16 to December 2 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 14 to October 29.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1650%Apr 1490%Oct 2990%Dec 250%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2331
Feb2828
Mar5331
Apr9114
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct974
Nov7330
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. Vevčani banks about 1,196 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
Apr6
May105
Jun221
Jul308
Aug318
Sep187
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.

Vevčani receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.7 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 20. 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 36.9 kWhDec 161.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Moderate
Feb2.9Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May5.9Bright
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.0Intense
Sep4.5Bright
Oct3.2Moderate
Nov2.1Moderate
Dec1.7Dim

Where is Vevčani?

Vevčani sits at 41.2°N, 20.6°E, 0 m above sea level, in North Macedonia. The nearest listed city is Struga, 10 km away.

OhridLibrazhdCentar ŽupaDebarPogradecResen

Topography around Vevčani

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Vevčani has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 987 m around an average of 1,043 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,688 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,701 m.

The land around Vevčani is covered by trees (73%) within 3 km, trees (60%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (56%) and grassland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
987 m
16 km
1,688 m
80 km
2,701 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Struga 10 km · Ohrid 22 km · Librazhd 24 km · Centar Župa 27 km · Debar 32 km · Pogradec 38 km · Resen 39 km · Bulqizë 42 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 Vevčani (41.2404°, 20.5928°, elevation 0 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).