Climate averages 1991–2020
Bihać weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Bihać: daytime highs average 5.5°C and nights cool to about -1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 13 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Banja Luka (105 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, about as warm as Bihać, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bihać ranks 2nd of 7 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 7 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 7 cities is 5.5°C; Bihać is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 7.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 99 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Bihać climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.5°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 90 | 11.2 | 9.29 h |
| February | 7.0°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 99 | 11.5 | 10.410 h |
| March | 11.6°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 100 | 12.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 110 | 14.1 | 13.513 h |
| May | 20.5°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 127 | 14.3 | 14.815 h |
| June | 24.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 97 | 12.0 | 15.516 h |
| July | 27.1°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 76 | 10.4 | 15.215 h |
| August | 27.2°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 85 | 10.3 | 14.114 h |
| September | 21.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 124 | 11.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.0°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 121 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 11.5°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 132 | 12.9 | 9.610 h |
| December | 6.3°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 116 | 13.0 | 8.99 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Banja Luka in JanuaryBosnia and Herzegovina · 105 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Zagreb in JanuaryCroatia · 111 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -2.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Rijeka in JanuaryCroatia · 126 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 122 mm rain
- Split in JanuaryCroatia · 152 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.8°C · 121 mm rain
- Ljubljana in JanuarySlovenia · 174 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -2.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Zenica in JanuaryBosnia and Herzegovina · 175 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -2.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Trieste in JanuaryItaly · 188 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 1.1°C · 90 mm rain
- Maribor in JanuarySlovenia · 194 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -3.0°C · 38 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Bihać) is explained once on the Bihać year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.