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Korçë has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate.

Mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers — here's what that means in plain terms.

Warm-summer MediterraneanKöppen Csb

What this climate feels like

The four things a regular visitor actually wants to know:

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Summers
Warm

Highs near 29°C in August.

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Winters
Cold

Lows near −2°C in January.

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Rain
Moderate rainfall

About 620 mm of rain a year. Wettest in November.

Sky & trend
Partly cloudy

A roughly even mix of sun and cloud.

What "warm-summer Mediterranean" means

Climate scientists sort every place on Earth into about 30 climate types, based on how hot, cold, wet and dry it is across the year. Korçë's type — warm-summer mediterranean — sits in the broad family of mild, temperate climates.

The shorthand: Csb

Researchers write climate types as a short letter code. Here is what each letter means:

C
Mild winters — The coldest month sits between −3 °C and 18 °C — cool to cold, but not severe by the rule.
s
Dry summer — Most of the year's rain falls in the cooler months; summer is dry.
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Warm summers — Warm but not hot summers — the warmest month stays below 22 °C.

Cities with the same climate as Korçë

A warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) — these recognizable cities share it. If you know one of them, you know roughly what to expect.

Korçë sits near a climate boundary

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This city's climate sits within about 2.2 °C of the next type along. A slightly cooler or warmer decade could change which side of the boundary it lands on — but the lived weather doesn't change at the line.

Has Korçë's climate type changed?

Stable — Korçë's climate has held the same type between the 1971–2000 and 1991–2020 normals. The label is steady; the climate beneath it is still warming.

What this climate means for you

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For gardeners

Cool-season vegetables, stone fruit, berries and hops excel. Wine grapes do well at the warmer end.

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For travellers

Late spring through early autumn is the pristine window — warm, dry, sunny. Winter is wet but never brutal.

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For movers & buyers

Comfortable year-round — sunny, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Heating is modest; AC is rarely necessary.

Where these numbers come from

The climate type and the month-by-month figures on this page are computed from Korçë's measured 30-year climate normals (1991–2020) — the same official records behind Korçë's main climate page, so the two always agree.

Long-range climate maps measure things slightly differently and can place a city in a neighbouring category. Where they differ, this page uses the measured station record as the climate today.

Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Ohrid, a weather station, about 63 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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