Climate and average weather in Leskovac

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

Best: early May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Leskovac typically varies from -4°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -12°C or above 34°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 Leskovac for warm-weather activities is from early May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
May
70 mm
Driest
Aug
36 mm
Rain / yr
619 mm
109 wet days
Daylight
8.8–15.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
230 m
43.0°N
Clearest
Aug
34% cloud

Leskovac is city in Serbia.

Density
3,750/km²
people per km²

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

Leskovac 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 27 to September 20, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Leskovac is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 25 to February 26, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Leskovac is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-4
Feb7-3
Mar111
Apr175
May2110
Jun2513
Jul2815
Aug2815
Sep2311
Oct176
Nov112
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Leskovac 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 -7°C (around January 28), with roughly 129 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)
Jan44-7-4
Feb67-5-3
Mar1111-11
Apr161745
May2121910
Jun25251313
Jul28281515
Aug28281515
Sep23231111
Oct171756
Nov111102
Dec55-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Leskovac

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Leskovac 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°479.77.39.20.0
Feb / -3°458.96.510.20.7
Mar11° / 6111.24.211.62.8
Apr17° / 6710.9113.15.1
May21° / 10°7011.8014.46.3
Jun25° / 13°599.7015.17.0
Jul28° / 15°458.1014.86.9
Aug28° / 15°366.5013.86.9
Sep23° / 11°416.9012.37.5
Oct17° / 467.10.410.85.9
Nov11° / 4682.59.52.8
Dec / -2°5710.26.78.90.2

Chance of rain

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

Leskovac gets about 619 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.3 months, from around Jan 21 to Jul 1, peaking in April at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 22.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 70 mm over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 36 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 13 · 39%Aug 22 · 18%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb339
Mar3611
Apr3711
May3712
Jun3210
Jul278
Aug217
Sep227
Oct237
Nov278
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Leskovac collects about 619 mm of rain across 109 wet days — roughly 52 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 70 mm, while August is the driest at just 36 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec474561677059453641464657
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan47107
Feb4597
Mar61114
Apr67111
May70120
Jun59100
Jul4580
Aug3670
Sep4170
Oct4670
Nov4683
Dec57107

Snow in Leskovac

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.

Leskovac averages about 29 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 19 to Apr 22 — about 6.1 months.

December is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 29 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 134 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonDec 26
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan728
Feb732
Mar420
Apr18
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct02
Nov315
Dec729

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Leskovac, 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 9. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 10 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 29. 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 16 · 82%Dec 25 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4060
Feb4159
Mar4555
Apr4753
May5149
Jun6634
Jul7822
Aug8020
Sep6337
Oct5347
Nov4456
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 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 8 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.27:074:16
Feb10.26:394:54
Mar11.65:535:31
Apr13.14:576:08
May14.44:156:42
Jun15.13:587:07
Jul14.84:117:04
Aug13.84:436:30
Sep12.35:185:35
Oct10.85:534:41
Nov9.56:334:02
Dec8.97:033:54

Sunny days

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

Leskovac 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 4.5 months, from around Jun 8 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 8 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1620 daysFeb 207 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul19Bright
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 Leskovac, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around June 4 to September 3. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 21% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 4 to June 3, 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 22 · 100%Aug 2 · 67%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May861410
Jun4738141
Jul3442221
Aug3841210
Sep772020
Oct97300
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 Leskovac is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 19 · 7 km/hAug 4 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Leskovac

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Leskovac 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 Leskovac for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 9 · 7.7

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
Feb0.7poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr5.0fair
May6.4good
Jun7.0good
Jul6.9good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.4good
Oct5.9good
Nov2.8poor
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 Leskovac 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 18 · 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 Leskovac, 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 28°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, Leskovac sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Leskovac 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 Leskovac peaks around July 13 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 highVery highHighModerateLowJul 13UV 9Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr8Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Leskovac

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
Apr74
May7.53.5
Jun8.55
Jul8.55
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Leskovac typically lasts about 266 days, from around March 9 to November 29 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 11 to October 21.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 950%Apr 1190%Oct 2190%Nov 2950%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2231
Feb2928
Mar6031
Apr9212
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9311
Nov6730
Dec3231

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. Leskovac banks about 1,449 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
Apr32
May167
Jun278
Jul351
Aug354
Sep210
Oct58
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.

Leskovac receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.4 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.5 kWh/m² — roughly 77% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 276.4 kWhDec 181.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.8Dim
Feb2.6Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr5.0Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.7Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct2.9Moderate
Nov1.9Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Leskovac?

Leskovac sits at 43.0°N, 21.9°E, 230 m above sea level, in Serbia. The nearest listed city is Niš, 36 km away.

NišProkupljeVranjePirotPodujevaKnjazevacGjilanSokobanja

Topography around Leskovac

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Leskovac has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 118 m around an average of 234 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 739 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,998 m.

The land around Leskovac is covered by cropland (36%) and artificial surfaces (36%) within 3 km, trees (42%) and cropland (36%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
118 m
16 km
739 m
80 km
1,998 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Niš 36 km · Prokuplje 39 km · Vranje 50 km · Pirot 55 km · Podujeva 62 km · Knjazevac 68 km · Gjilan 71 km · Sokobanja 72 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 Leskovac (42.9981°, 21.9461°, elevation 230 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).