Climate averages 1991–2020
Sarajevo weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Sarajevo: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ilidža (4 km away). In May its highs average 19.4°C, about as warm as Sarajevo, with 110 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo ranks 6th of 7 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 7 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 7 cities is 20.6°C; Sarajevo is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 110 mm to 94 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Sarajevo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 83 | 11.9 | 9.39 h |
| February | 5.7°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 92 | 11.8 | 10.410 h |
| March | 9.8°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 93 | 12.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 109 | 15.3 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 19.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 110 | 16.0 | 14.715 h |
| June | 23.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 94 | 13.7 | 15.415 h |
| July | 25.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 84 | 12.5 | 15.115 h |
| August | 26.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 69 | 11.2 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 91 | 11.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 95 | 10.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 10.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 104 | 11.8 | 9.710 h |
| December | 5.5°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 110 | 12.6 | 9.09 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
May in nearby cities
- Ilidža in MayBosnia and Herzegovina · 4 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 9.8°C · 110 mm rain
- Zenica in MayBosnia and Herzegovina · 53 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.5°C · 120 mm rain
- Mostar in MayBosnia and Herzegovina · 71 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 11.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Tuzla in MayBosnia and Herzegovina · 81 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 10.4°C · 116 mm rain
- Banja Luka in MayBosnia and Herzegovina · 138 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 10.1°C · 112 mm rain
- Split in MayCroatia · 159 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 71 mm rain
- Čačak in MaySerbia · 160 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 10.3°C · 89 mm rain
- Podgorica in MayMontenegro · 173 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.5°C · 121 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 Sarajevo) is explained once on the Sarajevo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ilidža lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.