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Sarajevo weather

Federation of B&H · 696,731 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:17

Overcast
11°
Overcast
Feels like 11°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
11 km/h
Humidity
63 %
Pressure
1023 hPa
Clouds
92 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:18 Set 16:41 Day 10 h 23 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
9°7°
Feels like 9°
Wind ↑ NW 5 km/h
Humidity 73 %
19:00
Overcast
9°
NW 5
22:00
Overcast
7°
W 3

Sarajevo forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -1.9° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-2°2°6°9°13°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed2°0°Thu 29 Oct: max 11° · min 5° · normal 7.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 7° · min 6° · normal 7.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 8° · min 6° · normal 7.4°Sun 1 Nov: max 6° · min 4° · normal 7.4°Mon 2 Nov: max 11° · min 6° · normal 7.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 7° · min 0° · normal 7.1°Wed 4 Nov: max 2° · min 0° · normal 7.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-2°5°12°11°-0°04
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Sarajevo climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −5 °C in January.

From 15 h 28 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 54 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 75 mm and 118 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 7 °C, 8 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan1 °C−5 °C82 mm
Feb3 °C−4 °C90 mm
Mar8 °C−1 °C94 mm
Apr13 °C4 °C111 mm
May17 °C8 °C118 mm
Jun21 °C11 °C105 mm
Jul23 °C13 °C94 mm
Aug24 °C14 °C75 mm
Sep19 °C9 °C89 mm
Oct15 °C6 °C89 mm
Nov9 °C2 °C96 mm
Dec4 °C−3 °C104 mm
Whole year13 °C4 °C1,150 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 43.85° N, 18.36° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Sarajevo: pollution and pollen

6/6
Extremely poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.593µg/m³
PM1097µg/m³
O₃20µg/m³
NO₂35µg/m³
SO₂32µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sarajevo

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sarajevo, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Sarajevo

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:32 Set 21:31
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Sarajevo); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Sarajevo

Curious about the weather in Sarajevo on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Sarajevo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sarajevo, Federation of B&H: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 5 °C to 11 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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