Rab climate by month
What the weather is like
Rab has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 27° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 8° and lows of 4°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 18°.
About 1,780 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (232 mm, 14 wet days) and July the driest (52 mm, 9 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in July to 42% in December.
The sea reaches about 24° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Zagreb, the capital, Rab is 1.8° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 27° · July
- Coldest nights
- 4° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 15% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 34 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 49 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 8° | 9° | 12° | 15° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 23° | 18° | 13° | 10° |
| Average low | 4° | 5° | 7° | 11° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 22° | 18° | 14° | 9° | 6° |
| Precipitation | 149 mm | 138 mm | 129 mm | 126 mm | 128 mm | 109 mm | 52 mm | 96 mm | 204 mm | 209 mm | 232 mm | 208 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.8 | 12.1 | 11.3 | 11.9 | 13.5 | 11.8 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 11.3 | 11.5 | 13.6 | 12.8 |
| Cloud cover | 39% | 36% | 35% | 35% | 29% | 25% | 15% | 16% | 24% | 30% | 39% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 12° | 11° | 11° | 13° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 24° | 21° | 19° | 17° | 14° |
| Daylight | 9h 10 | 10h 26 | 11h 52 | 13h 28 | 14h 49 | 15h 34 | 15h 15 | 14h 06 | 12h 34 | 11h 02 | 9h 36 | 8h 49 |
| Month score | 26 | 27 | 40 | 56 | 68 | 72 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 39 | 23 |