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Has the climate in Cetinje changed?

Cetinje has warmed about 4.1°F since 1989.

About 1.3°F per decade, measured from Cetinje's official daily weather records, 1989–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Cetinje's climate has warmed faster than most other cities in Montenegro.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
54 / yr
Recent
54 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+3.0°F
1970s
52.7°F
Recent
55.7°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 more days
1970s
6 / yr
Recent
22 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
81 more days
1970s
35 / yr
Recent
116 / yr
Wetter on average

Cetinje's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1989 to 2025.

49°51°53°55°57°59°1989: 51.8°F1990: 51.6°F1991: 51.7°F1992: 51.4°F1993: 52.4°F1994: 54.2°F1996: 53.6°F1997: 52.4°F2001: 54.8°F2002: 53.1°F2003: 53.3°F2004: 52.6°F2005: 51.0°F2006: 52.1°F2007: 53.8°F2008: 53.7°F2009: 54.4°F2011: 55.2°F2012: 55.2°F2013: 54.5°F2014: 54.5°F2015: 55.0°F2016: 53.8°F2017: 54.4°F2018: 55.4°F2019: 55.2°F2020: 54.7°F2021: 54.6°F2022: 57.0°F2023: 56.6°F2024: 58.1°F2025: 56.8°Flong-term trend1989199020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 3 more freezing nights a year and about 5 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°+3.0°+3.5°+4.0°+4.5°January: +0.2°F+0.2JFebruary: +1.4°F+1.4FMarch: +1.3°F+1.3MApril: +1.6°F+1.6AMay: +0.4°F+0.4MJune: +3.5°F+3.5JJuly: +2.9°F+2.9JAugust: +4.3°F+4.3ASeptember: -1.0°F-1.0SOctober: +4.5°F+4.5ONovember: +2.8°F+2.8NDecember: +2.5°F+2.5D

October has warmed the most — about 4.5°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 22 years of daily observations at Niksic, a weather station, about 41 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →