Climate and average weather in Celje

In Celje, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late April to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Celje typically varies from -3°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -11°C or above 31°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Celje for warm-weather activities is from late April to early October.

Hottest
Jul
25°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Jul
105 mm
Driest
Jan
41 mm
Rain / yr
981 mm
127 wet days
Daylight
8.4–15.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
240 m
46.2°N
Clearest
Aug
51% cloud

Celje is city in Slovenia.

Air quality
Good
PM10 27.4 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
1,676/km²
people per km²
Founded
1451

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

Celje 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 April to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Celje, 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 22 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Celje is July, with an average high of 25°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 20 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Celje 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
Feb6-2
Mar111
Apr156
May2010
Jun2314
Jul2515
Aug2515
Sep2011
Oct157
Nov93
Dec4-2

How hot and cold Celje 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 February 3), with roughly 124 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34-5-3
Feb66-5-2
Mar1111-11
Apr151546
May2020910
Jun23231414
Jul25251515
Aug25251515
Sep20201111
Oct151557
Nov9913
Dec44-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Celje

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 July afternoons, near 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Celje 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°417.24.38.80.0
Feb / -2°537.44.3100.4
Mar11° / 639.93.211.62.6
Apr15° / 7611.40.813.34.4
May20° / 10°9513014.75.8
Jun23° / 14°10414015.56.3
Jul25° / 15°10513.3015.26.4
Aug25° / 15°10112.10146.6
Sep20° / 11°10311.2012.36.1
Oct15° / 889.10.310.74.5
Nov / 869.82.39.21.6
Dec / -2°668.94.58.50.0

Chance of rain

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

Celje gets about 981 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 5.8 months, from around Mar 30 to Sep 22, peaking in June at about 48% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 23.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 105 mm over about 13 wet days; January is the driest, with 41 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 5 · 48%Jan 23 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan247
Feb277
Mar3110
Apr3911
May4213
Jun4614
Jul4313
Aug4012
Sep3711
Oct299
Nov3210
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Celje collects about 981 mm of rain across 127 wet days — roughly 82 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 105 mm, while January is the driest at just 41 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4153637695104105101103888666
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4174
Feb5374
Mar63103
Apr76111
May95130
Jun104140
Jul105130
Aug101120
Sep103110
Oct8890
Nov86102
Dec6695

Snow in Celje

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.

Celje averages about 20 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 24 to Apr 22 — about 6 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 26 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 105 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 19
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan419
Feb426
Mar316
Apr17
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov215
Dec522

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Celje, 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 April 30 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 15. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 16 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 29. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% 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 9 · 62%Nov 18 · 30%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3961
Feb3961
Mar4060
Apr4258
May4852
Jun5248
Jul6040
Aug6040
Sep4951
Oct4357
Nov3169
Dec3664

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 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 8 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.87:444:32
Feb10.07:135:15
Mar11.66:215:56
Apr13.35:206:39
May14.74:327:18
Jun15.54:127:46
Jul15.24:277:42
Aug14.05:037:03
Sep12.35:446:03
Oct10.76:245:04
Nov9.27:094:20
Dec8.57:424:08

Sunny days

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

Celje averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Jun 8 to Sep 26. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 6 sunny days — about 48% fewer than the August peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedAug 1112 daysNov 236 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Mixed
Mar8Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep9Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
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 Celje, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around June 4 to September 9. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 37% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 10 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 1 · 51%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May881110
Jun4337181
Jul2338335
Aug2340334
Sep643070
Oct93700
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 Celje is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 26 · 8 km/hAug 6 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Celje

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 20 · 6.7

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
Feb0.5poor
Mar2.5poor
Apr4.4fair
May5.8good
Jun6.3good
Jul6.4good
Aug6.6good
Sep6.1good
Oct4.5fair
Nov1.6poor
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 Celje for hot-weather activities is from mid June to late August, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 8 · 6.1

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 Celje, 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 July (highs near 25°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Celje sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Celje 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 Celje peaks around July 15 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 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 8Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr7High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Celje

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
Mar4.50
Apr72.5
May7.52.5
Jun84.5
Jul8.55
Aug7.53.5
Sep50
Oct0.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Celje 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 Celje is worst in April — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateApr 917 µg/m³Sep 2012 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct12Good
Nov12Good
Dec14Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Celje typically lasts about 270 days, from around March 6 to November 30 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 6 to October 26.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 650%Apr 690%Oct 2690%Nov 3050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2731
Feb3328
Mar6531
Apr955
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct957
Nov7330
Dec3331

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. Celje banks about 1,253 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr25
May149
Jun255
Jul319
Aug309
Sep164
Oct31
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.

Celje receives about 3.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.1 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 16. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.1 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 45.8 kWhDec 141.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.3Moderate
Apr4.6Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct2.3Moderate
Nov1.4Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Celje?

Celje sits at 46.2°N, 15.3°E, 240 m above sea level, in Slovenia. The nearest listed city is Velenje, 18 km away.

VelenjeTrbovljeMariborNovo MestoPtujŽumberakSamoborZaprešić

Topography around Celje

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Celje has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 368 m around an average of 283 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 915 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,391 m.

The land around Celje is covered by trees (42%), artificial surfaces (25%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, trees (62%) and grassland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (70%) within 80 km.

3 km
368 m
16 km
915 m
80 km
2,391 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Velenje 18 km · Trbovlje 18 km · Maribor 47 km · Novo Mesto 48 km · Ptuj 51 km · Žumberak 53 km · Samobor 59 km · Zaprešić 59 km

Slovenia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 63% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$37,376
2025
Happiness
6.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.6
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Catholic 69%atheist 14%Orthodox 4%non-believer/agnostic 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 Celje (46.2309°, 15.2604°, elevation 240 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).