Ideal weather days in Sofia
The best time to visit Sofia for warm, dry weather is June and August to October, with 20 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Sofia's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June and August to October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Sofia, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold166
- Too wet75
- Too hot21
- Too windy17
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), Sofia averaged 144 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Bulgaria, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and August (up to 17 a month, 63 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 22 a month, 79 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 166 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 75 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March, November and December. A day can fail more than one test.
Sofia weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7 °C 45 °F | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 9 °C 48 °F | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 58 °F | 9 | 2 | 4 | 7 of 31 |
| April | 17 °C 63 °F | 8 | 3 | 3 | 12 of 30 |
| May | 21 °C 70 °F | 15 | 2 | 1 | 17 of 31 |
| June | 29 °C 84 °F | 7 | 0 | 7 | 21 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 90 °F | 3 | 1 | 10 | 16 of 31 |
| August | 31 °C 88 °F | 5 | 0 | 7 | 20 of 31 |
| September | 26 °C 79 °F | 8 | 1 | 6 | 22 of 30 |
| October | 22 °C 72 °F | 3 | 0 | 13 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 12 °C 54 °F | 10 | 3 | 6 | 2 of 30 |
| December | 6 °C 43 °F | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 87 | 17 | 73 | 144 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 144 warm, dry days
- 2024 134 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Sofia for good weather?
The best time to visit Sofia for warm, dry weather is June and August to October, with 20 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and August (up to 17 a month, 63 a year). Counted from measured days at Sofia station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Sofia?
On average 87 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (15 rain days), the driest October (3).
How many sunny days does Sofia get a year?
About 73 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 October (13).
How warm does Sofia get?
The median daily high ranged from 6 °C (43 °F) in December to 32 °C (90 °F) in July.
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Source: Sofia weather station (15614099999), 7 km from the centre of Sofia, 531 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.