Ideal weather days in Sarajevo
The best time to visit Sarajevo for warm, dry weather is June, September and October, with 19 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Sarajevo's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June, September and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Sarajevo, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold170
- Too wet105
- Too hot28
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Sarajevo averaged 127 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Bosnia & Herzegovina, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August (up to 14 a month, 53 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 21 a month, 81 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 170 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 105 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to May and November to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Sarajevo weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7 °C 44 °F | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 11 °C 51 °F | 9 | 0 | 9 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 59 °F | 12 | 0 | 7 | 8 of 31 |
| April | 18 °C 64 °F | 12 | 0 | 5 | 13 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 17 | 0 | 0 | 16 of 31 |
| June | 29 °C 84 °F | 7 | 0 | 9 | 20 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 89 °F | 8 | 0 | 11 | 12 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 89 °F | 7 | 0 | 8 | 16 of 31 |
| September | 26 °C 79 °F | 10 | 0 | 8 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 22 °C 72 °F | 7 | 0 | 9 | 22 of 31 |
| November | 10 °C 50 °F | 12 | 0 | 7 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 6 °C 42 °F | 12 | 0 | 8 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 125 | 0 | 86 | 127 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 128 warm, dry days
- 2024 116 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Sarajevo for good weather?
The best time to visit Sarajevo for warm, dry weather is June, September and October, with 19 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August (up to 14 a month, 53 a year). Counted from measured days at Sarajevo Bjelave station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Sarajevo?
On average 125 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (17 rain days), the driest August (7).
How many sunny days does Sarajevo get a year?
About 86 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (11).
How warm does Sarajevo get?
The median daily high ranged from 6 °C (42 °F) in December to 32 °C (89 °F) in July.
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Source: Sarajevo Bjelave weather station (14654099999), 2 km from the centre of Sarajevo, 638 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 86% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.