A village and its jetties on the shore of the Bay of Kotor seen from above, below a grey mountainside
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Montenegro by campervan: weather and best time

When to tour Montenegro by campervan: temperatures, rainfall and the best season for each part of the country. What to know before you go.

Published 18 September 2026Last checked 19 September 2026

Weather

Weather

Montenegro has a coast that peaks in May, June, September and October and a north that peaks in July and August, and it is small enough to do both in one trip. The distance from Kotor to Žabljak is about three hours of driving and roughly thirteen degrees of July afternoon. That is the whole planning problem in one sentence: pick the month, then pick the altitude to match it.

Folded grey rock strata and patches of old snow above a wide scree slope
Durmitor in August. Twenty-two degrees while Podgorica is at thirty-five

The year by region: how it feels, how warm, how wet

Bay of KotorHerceg Novi
13°231 mm
14°195 mm
16°199 mm
19°159 mm
24°104 mm
28°64 mm
31°47 mm
32°88 mm
27°152 mm
23°199 mm
18°256 mm
14°236 mm
Southern coastBar
13°142 mm
14°128 mm
16°131 mm
19°112 mm
24°82 mm
28°54 mm
30°32 mm
30°45 mm
27°134 mm
23°152 mm
19°165 mm
14°179 mm
Zeta plainPodgorica
11°165 mm
13°164 mm
16°164 mm
21°136 mm
26°98 mm
31°60 mm
34°36 mm
35°54 mm
28°147 mm
23°176 mm
17°261 mm
12°232 mm
Northern valleysKolašin
4°186 mm
5°192 mm
9°184 mm
14°166 mm
19°135 mm
23°96 mm
25°75 mm
26°61 mm
21°164 mm
16°222 mm
10°301 mm
4°276 mm
DurmitorŽabljak
2°114 mm
3°128 mm
6°123 mm
10°116 mm
15°110 mm
19°89 mm
21°77 mm
22°61 mm
17°117 mm
13°173 mm
8°214 mm
3°184 mm

BestWorkableToo hotCold or wetTop figure: average daily high. Below it: average rainfall for the month.

All five rows are mean daily maximum temperatures and monthly rainfall on 1991 to 2020 normals, from the Hydrological and Meteorological Service of Montenegro and NOAA. The wet months on this coast are the autumn ones, not the winter ones: Herceg Novi takes more rain in November than in any other month.