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The climate...

Montenegro, for its size, has of quite amazing diversity on climate. The influence of sea and the mountainous landscape together on a small area gave Montenegro various kinds of different "climates" with noticeable difference.

The coast...

The narrow coast belt enjoys a Mediterranean climate, with log dry summers and short mild winters. Average July maximum temperatures are around 28ºC with a high approaching 30ºC; average annual sunshine is over 2.500 hours with a summer average of 300+ hours a per month - or 10 hours a day. Winter averages are 12,5ºC and 5,5ºC. November is generally the wettest month.

The central plain...

The central plain is colder in the winter and warmer in the summer than the coast. Podgorica averages a January temperature of 5ºC and a July temperature 26.5ºC. The maximum can reach up to 40ºC and the minimum -10ºC.

The mountain area...

The High karst mountain area consist of plains at around 1.700 Meter rising to peaks around 2.000 Meter. The climate is sub-alpine with cold snowy winters, up to 5m in the mountains, and a moderate summers averaging 270 hours of sunshine per month. Winter maximum temperatures are around 3ºC and minimums around -6ºC . In the summer months it goes from 23ºC to 9ºC .

Globally whole Montenegro is indexed on the Koppen scale (based on temperature and precipitation) as a Bs Climate. The B reffering to an hot dry climate and the little S reffering to dry seasons in the summer with more then 70 % of the precipitation that falls in the winter.

Live data temperatures in montenegrin cities.

Here you can see the actual temperatures, humidity and windspeed in the montenegrin cities. Updated by the hour and provided by www.weather-montenegro.com.