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Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, sits on a plain in the centre of the country, ringed by mountains and close to the Adriatic Sea and Lake Skadar, at approximately 42.44°N, 19.26°E. Its sheltered inland basin gives it a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) with a continental edge — very hot, dry summers and mild, extremely wet winters.
Summer, from June to August, is hot and dry, with July and August the hottest — average highs around 32–33°C — and heatwaves that regularly exceed 38–40°C, since the mountain-ringed basin traps hot, still air. Podgorica is consistently one of the hottest cities in the Balkans, and rain is scarce for months.
Winter, from December to February, is mild but extraordinarily wet, with January the coolest month — average highs around 10°C and lows near 2°C, with frost occasional and snow rare in the basin though the surrounding peaks are white. Torrential rain falls as Adriatic systems are lifted over the mountains, and grey, saturated spells are the norm.
Podgorica is remarkably wet, receiving on the order of 1,600–1,700 mm of rain a year — among the highest totals in Europe — overwhelmingly in the cool months from October to April, while the summer is nearly rainless; the surrounding Dinaric mountains wring enormous rainfall from the moist Adriatic air. Live rainfall, humidity, and pressure readings for the city are shown in the panels above.
Podgorica combines two extremes: some of the hottest summers in the Balkans, as its mountain-ringed basin traps the heat, and some of the heaviest rainfall in Europe, as the Dinaric mountains behind it force moist Adriatic air upward through the autumn and winter. Nearby Crkvice, in those same mountains, is among the wettest inhabited places on the continent.
To follow any single measurement in Podgorica more closely, use our live instruments: the online barometer for atmospheric pressure, the thermometer for temperature, the hygrometer for humidity, the anemometer for wind speed, the wind vane for wind direction, and the rain gauge for rainfall.