Climate averages 1991–2020
Kumanovo weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Kumanovo: daytime highs average 5.5°C and nights cool to about -1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 29 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Skopje (28 km away). In January its highs average 6.4°C, 0.8°C warmer than Kumanovo, with 45 mm of rain.
Among the 3 cities listed in North Macedonia, Kumanovo ranks 2nd of 3 for the warmest January highs and 1st of 3 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 3 cities is 5.7°C; Kumanovo is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 7.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 41 mm to 40 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
Kumanovo 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-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 41 | 8.0 | 9.59 h |
| February | 7.8°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 40 | 7.3 | 10.511 h |
| March | 12.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 54 | 9.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 58 | 10.1 | 13.313 h |
| May | 22.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 53 | 10.8 | 14.515 h |
| June | 27.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 41 | 8.7 | 15.215 h |
| July | 30.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 27 | 6.6 | 14.915 h |
| August | 30.4°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 26 | 5.2 | 13.914 h |
| September | 24.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 31 | 5.6 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.5°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 46 | 6.2 | 11.111 h |
| November | 11.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 47 | 8.1 | 9.810 h |
| December | 6.5°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 54 | 8.7 | 9.29 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
- Skopje in JanuaryNorth Macedonia · 28 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low -1.8°C · 45 mm rain
- Pristina in JanuaryKosovo · 75 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -2.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Suva Reka in JanuaryKosovo · 78 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -1.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Prizren in JanuaryKosovo · 81 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -1.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Prilep in JanuaryNorth Macedonia · 89 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -2.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Leskovac in JanuarySerbia · 98 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -4.0°C · 47 mm rain
- Mitrovicë in JanuaryKosovo · 109 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -2.5°C · 44 mm rain
- Gjakovë in JanuaryKosovo · 109 kmHigh 5.5°C · Low -1.6°C · 63 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 Kumanovo) is explained once on the Kumanovo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.