According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Croatia is May to June and September to October. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Croatia
- Best months
- May to June and September to October
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Croatia is best for
Walk ancient Venetian walls in Dubrovnik and Rovinj, explore Roman ruins in Pula, and island-hop the coast.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Croatia by month
Monthly averages around Zagreb; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −1 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| February | about 1 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| March | about 6 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| April | about 11 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| May best | about 16 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| June best | about 20 °C | some rain (87 mm) |
| July | about 23 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| August | about 22 °C | some rain (81 mm) |
| September best | about 17 °C | a lot of rain (105 mm) |
| October best | about 11 °C | some rain (81 mm) |
| November | about 6 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | some rain (60 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 Croatia
- Capital
- Zagreb
- Language
- Croatian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +385
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Croatia
Miško’s huddle has hidden 41 painted penguin stones in Croatia so far. See them on Penguinstones →