According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Montenegro is May to September. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Montenegro
- Best months
- May to September
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Montenegro is best for
Fjord-like Kotor Bay, medieval walled towns, coastal drives, and steep fortress hikes overlooking the Adriatic.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Montenegro by month
Monthly averages around Podgorica; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −1 °C | a lot of rain (150 mm) |
| February | about 0 °C | a lot of rain (156 mm) |
| March | about 4 °C | a lot of rain (138 mm) |
| April | about 8 °C | a lot of rain (102 mm) |
| May best | about 13 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| June best | about 17 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| July best | about 21 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| August best | about 21 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| September best | about 16 °C | a lot of rain (114 mm) |
| October | about 11 °C | a lot of rain (135 mm) |
| November | about 6 °C | a lot of rain (195 mm) |
| December | about 1 °C | a lot of rain (171 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 Montenegro
- Capital
- Podgorica
- Language
- Montenegrin
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +382
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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