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Zadar climate by month
What the weather is like
Zadar has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 29° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 9° and lows of 4°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 19°.
About 910 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (124 mm, 13 wet days) and July the driest (28 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in July to 39% in December.
The sea reaches about 25° 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, Zadar is 0.5° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · July
- Coldest nights
- 4° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 12% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 25° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 29 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 54 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 | 9° | 10° | 13° | 17° | 22° | 26° | 29° | 29° | 24° | 19° | 14° | 10° |
| Average low | 4° | 4° | 7° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 21° | 21° | 17° | 13° | 9° | 5° |
| Precipitation | 77 mm | 69 mm | 68 mm | 67 mm | 64 mm | 53 mm | 28 mm | 52 mm | 98 mm | 106 mm | 124 mm | 104 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.6 | 11.1 | 11.7 | 11.8 | 12.6 | 11.2 | 8 | 8.4 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 13.2 | 12.4 |
| Cloud cover | 36% | 34% | 34% | 34% | 28% | 22% | 12% | 14% | 22% | 29% | 37% | 39% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 18° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 18° | 16° |
| Daylight | 9h 14 | 10h 28 | 11h 52 | 13h 26 | 14h 45 | 15h 29 | 15h 11 | 14h 03 | 12h 33 | 11h 03 | 9h 39 | 8h 54 |
| Month score | 28 | 31 | 46 | 65 | 70 | 71 | 65 | 64 | 75 | 75 | 45 | 27 |