According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Albania is May to June and September. Plan 4 days.
Best months for Albania
- Best months
- May to June and September
- How long to stay
- 4 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Albania is best for
Clear Ionian beaches along the Riviera, rugged hikes in Theth, and historic Ottoman towns like Berat.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Albania by month
Monthly averages around Tirana; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 2 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| February | about 3 °C | some rain (87 mm) |
| March | about 7 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| April | about 11 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| May best | about 15 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| June best | about 20 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| July | about 24 °C | little rain (27 mm) |
| August | about 24 °C | little rain (27 mm) |
| September best | about 18 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| October | about 13 °C | some rain (93 mm) |
| November | about 8 °C | a lot of rain (108 mm) |
| December | about 3 °C | a lot of rain (105 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Albania
- Capital
- Tirana
- Language
- Albanian
- Currency
- Albanian Lek (ALL)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 220 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +355
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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