Climate and average weather in Bor

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

Best: late May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bor typically varies from -4°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -13°C or above 32°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 Bor for warm-weather activities is from late May to early October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
May
82 mm
Driest
Feb
51 mm
Rain / yr
773 mm
127 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
405 m
44.1°N
Clearest
Aug
37% cloud

Bor is city in Serbia.

Density
46/km²
people per km²
Founded
2018

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

Bor 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 May to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 22 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Bor is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 22 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Bor is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 9°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)
Jan2-4
Feb4-3
Mar101
Apr156
May2010
Jun2414
Jul2715
Aug2715
Sep2111
Oct156
Nov82
Dec3-3

How hot and cold Bor 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 28), with roughly 138 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)
Jan22-8-4
Feb44-7-3
Mar1010-21
Apr151546
May2020910
Jun24241414
Jul27271515
Aug27271515
Sep21211111
Oct151546
Nov88-12
Dec33-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Bor

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Bor 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°5410.37.99.10.0
Feb / -3°519.46.710.20.1
Mar10° / 6410.84.511.62.1
Apr15° / 7212.50.913.24.4
May20° / 10°8213.6014.55.8
Jun24° / 14°8213015.26.5
Jul27° / 15°7211.10156.7
Aug27° / 15°579013.87.1
Sep21° / 11°598.3012.37.0
Oct15° / 598.90.510.84.8
Nov / 609.43.19.41.5
Dec / -3°6210.76.28.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Bor gets about 773 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 3.5 months, from around Mar 30 to Jul 15, peaking in June at about 47% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 5.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 82 mm over about 14 wet days; February is the driest, with 51 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 4 · 47%Sep 5 · 26%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3310
Feb349
Mar3411
Apr4213
May4514
Jun4213
Jul3611
Aug299
Sep288
Oct299
Nov319
Dec3411

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bor collects about 773 mm of rain across 127 wet days — roughly 64 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 82 mm, while February is the driest at just 51 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec545164728282725759596062
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan54108
Feb5197
Mar64115
Apr72131
May82140
Jun82130
Jul72110
Aug5790
Sep5980
Oct5991
Nov6093
Dec62116

Snow in Bor

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.

Bor averages about 30 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 14 to Apr 23 — about 6.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 34 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 159 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 25
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan834
Feb740
Mar524
Apr16
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov321
Dec632

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Bor, 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 4.4 months, ending around October 10. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 76% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 11 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 29. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% 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 16 · 78%Nov 27 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3664
Mar4456
Apr4753
May4852
Jun6238
Jul7426
Aug7624
Sep6238
Oct5050
Nov3862
Dec3466

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 13, brings about 15 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.17:104:12
Feb10.26:414:52
Mar11.65:535:30
Apr13.24:556:08
May14.54:116:44
Jun15.23:537:10
Jul15.04:077:07
Aug13.84:406:31
Sep12.35:175:35
Oct10.85:544:39
Nov9.46:353:59
Dec8.87:063:49

Sunny days

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

Bor averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 30. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 7 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1619 daysDec 126 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep13Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec7Gloomy

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 Bor, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 1 to September 3. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 38% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 4 to May 31, 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 17 · 100%Jul 31 · 52%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May772210
Jun3539233
Jul2537326
Aug2940274
Sep722440
Oct95500
Nov100000
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 Bor is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 16 · 10 km/hAug 1 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Bor

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 31 · 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
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.2poor
Mar2.1poor
Apr4.4fair
May5.8good
Jun6.5good
Jul6.8good
Aug7.1good
Sep6.9good
Oct4.7fair
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 Bor for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 7.2

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 Bor, 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 27°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, Bor sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bor 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 Bor peaks around July 11 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateVery highHighModerateLowJul 11UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr8Very high
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Bor

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 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
Mar4.50
Apr73.5
May7.53
Jun8.55
Jul85
Aug73.5
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Bor typically lasts about 260 days, from around March 11 to November 25 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 10 to October 20.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1150%Apr 1090%Oct 2090%Nov 2550%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2131
Feb2828
Mar5731
Apr939
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9212
Nov6430
Dec2831

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. Bor banks about 1,339 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr28
May160
Jun267
Jul334
Aug333
Sep184
Oct33
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.

Bor receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 79% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 276.4 kWhDec 151.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.6Dim
Feb2.4Moderate
Mar3.7Moderate
Apr5.0Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct2.7Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.3Dim

Where is Bor?

Bor sits at 44.1°N, 22.1°E, 405 m above sea level, in Serbia. The nearest listed city is Zaječar, 23 km away.

NegotinSokobanjaKnjazevacĆuprijaVidinCalafatJagodina

Topography around Bor

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bor has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 473 m around an average of 420 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,050 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,700 m.

The land around Bor is covered by trees (49%) within 3 km, trees (59%) and grassland (29%) within 16 km, and trees (59%) and cropland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
473 m
16 km
1,050 m
80 km
1,700 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Zaječar 23 km · Negotin 39 km · Sokobanja 51 km · Knjazevac 58 km · Ćuprija 60 km · Vidin 64 km · Calafat 68 km · Jagodina 68 km

Serbia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 45% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$15,262
2025
Happiness
6.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
75%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.3
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
7.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 579
Religion
Serbian Orthodox 81%unknown 5%Islam 4%Catholic 4%

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 Bor (44.0749°, 22.0959°, elevation 405 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).