Climate averages 1991–2020
Skopje weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Skopje: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 18.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 52 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kumanovo (28 km away). In August its highs average 30.4°C, 0.7°C cooler than Skopje, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 3 cities listed in North Macedonia, Skopje ranks 1st of 3 for the warmest August highs and 2nd of 3 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 3 cities is 30.0°C; Skopje is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.5°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 33 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Skopje climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.4°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 45 | 8.2 | 9.59 h |
| February | 8.7°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 43 | 7.6 | 10.611 h |
| March | 13.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 56 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.2°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 57 | 9.9 | 13.313 h |
| May | 23.2°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 49 | 10.1 | 14.515 h |
| June | 27.9°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 38 | 7.8 | 15.215 h |
| July | 30.8°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 25 | 5.2 | 14.915 h |
| August, selected | 31.1°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 25 | 4.3 | 13.914 h |
| September | 25.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 33 | 5.7 | 12.513 h |
| October | 19.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 51 | 6.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 12.7°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 53 | 8.3 | 9.910 h |
| December | 7.2°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 59 | 9.1 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Kumanovo in AugustNorth Macedonia · 28 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 17.8°C · 26 mm rain
- Prizren in AugustKosovo · 62 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.0°C · 44 mm rain
- Suva Reka in AugustKosovo · 64 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 18.2°C · 44 mm rain
- Prilep in AugustNorth Macedonia · 73 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 17.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Pristina in AugustKosovo · 78 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 16.9°C · 40 mm rain
- Gjakovë in AugustKosovo · 93 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 17.7°C · 37 mm rain
- Mitrovicë in AugustKosovo · 109 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 16.6°C · 40 mm rain
- Leskovac in AugustSerbia · 119 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 17.6°C · 36 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 Skopje) is explained once on the Skopje year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.