Ideal weather days in Zagreb
The best time to visit Zagreb for warm, dry weather is May to June and August to October, with 18 to 21 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Zagreb's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to 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 Zagreb, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold168
- Too wet87
- Too hot20
- Too windy4
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), Zagreb averaged 141 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Croatia, 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 19 a month, 82 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April, May and October (up to 17 a month, 86 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 168 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 87 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to May and July to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Zagreb weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7 °C 45 °F | 9 | 0 | 6 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 11 °C 52 °F | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 16 °C 61 °F | 10 | 1 | 8 | 9 of 31 |
| April | 19 °C 66 °F | 8 | 1 | 11 | 16 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 10 | 0 | 8 | 19 of 31 |
| June | 29 °C 83 °F | 6 | 0 | 15 | 21 of 30 |
| July | 30 °C 86 °F | 8 | 0 | 15 | 17 of 31 |
| August | 30 °C 86 °F | 6 | 0 | 17 | 18 of 31 |
| September | 26 °C 79 °F | 9 | 0 | 13 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 21 °C 70 °F | 10 | 0 | 7 | 18 of 31 |
| November | 11 °C 52 °F | 10 | 0 | 6 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 8 °C 46 °F | 8 | 2 | 8 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 96 | 4 | 123 | 141 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 146 warm, dry days
- 2024 130 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Zagreb for good weather?
The best time to visit Zagreb for warm, dry weather is May to June and August to October, with 18 to 21 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 19 a month, 82 a year). Counted from measured days at Zagreb station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Zagreb?
On average 96 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (10 rain days), the driest February (5).
How many sunny days does Zagreb get a year?
About 123 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 August (17).
How warm does Zagreb get?
The median daily high ranged from 7 °C (45 °F) in January to 30 °C (86 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Ljubljana120 km, Slovenia119 days
- Split260 km158 days
- Venice290 km, Italy155 days
- Sarajevo290 km, Bosnia & Herzegovina127 days
- Belgrade370 km, Serbia139 days
- Prague490 km, Czechia122 days
- Warsaw800 km, Poland125 days
Where is the best climate in Croatia?
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Source: Zagreb weather station (14241099999), 10 km from the centre of Zagreb, 108 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.