Croatia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Pakoštane.

May leads for comfortable weather in Pakoštane: typically 22.3°C by day, 14.5°C at night, with 69 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high22.3°C

Typical low14.5°C

Rain in May69 mm

Comfort

May

May · June · September

85climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

97climate match

Outdoors

April

April · May · October

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 29 against May’s 85 — days reach only 11.2°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

2911.2° / 4.8°

Feb

3311.6° / 4.7°

Mar

4714.3° / 7.2°

Apr

6217.6° / 10.4°

May

8522.3° / 14.5°

Jun

8226.6° / 18.6°

Jul

7129.5° / 20.8°

Aug

7029.4° / 20.8°

Sep

7824.8° / 16.9°

Oct

7220.5° / 13.4°

Nov

4516° / 9.7°

Dec

3112.4° / 6°

Monthly climate evidence for Pakoštane — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.2°C	4.8°C	78 mm	7.9	13.8°C	9 h 14	29	Strong coverage
February	11.6°C	4.7°C	64 mm	6.6	13.0°C	10 h 24	33	Strong coverage
March	14.3°C	7.2°C	57 mm	6.9	13.1°C	11 h 47	47	Strong coverage
April	17.6°C	10.4°C	64 mm	7.6	14.5°C	13 h 22	62	Strong coverage
May	22.3°C	14.5°C	69 mm	6.8	17.7°C	14 h 43	85	Strong coverage
June	26.6°C	18.6°C	46 mm	4.6	21.5°C	15 h 27	82	Strong coverage
July	29.5°C	20.8°C	37 mm	3.5	23.8°C	15 h 10	71	Strong coverage
August	29.4°C	20.8°C	45 mm	3.6	24.2°C	14 h	70	Strong coverage
September	24.8°C	16.9°C	123 mm	7	22.2°C	12 h 27	78	Strong coverage
October	20.5°C	13.4°C	106 mm	7.5	20.4°C	10 h 55	72	Strong coverage
November	16°C	9.7°C	123 mm	10.2	18.1°C	9 h 35	45	Strong coverage
December	12.4°C	6°C	102 mm	9.1	15.8°C	8 h 55	31	Strong coverage

What has changed

Pakoštane runs +1.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.5

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+1.7

Apr

+1.3

May

+1.2

Jun

+2.7

Jul

+2.4

Aug

+2.7

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+1.6

Dec

+1.9

May daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 22.4°C.

Records at ZADAR, 1961–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	17.4°C10 Jan 2016	-9.1°C23 Jan 1963	65 mm15 Jan 2009	204 mm2009 · driest 1 mm in 1964	63
February	21.2°C22 Feb 1990	-6.4°C28 Feb 2018	56 mm17 Feb 2002	182 mm2014 · driest 6 mm in 2011	63
March	22.5°C26 Mar 2012	-6.8°C1 Mar 1963	67 mm22 Mar 1985	202 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2012	63
April	26.5°C20 Apr 2018	0.5°C7 Apr 2003	56 mm29 Apr 1998	122 mm1991 · driest 1 mm in 2007	63
May	32.0°C30 May 2003	3.4°C2 May 1962	113 mm28 May 2002	176 mm2019 · driest 4 mm in 1993	63
June	35.1°C28 Jun 2019	8.2°C8 Jun 1962	53 mm1 Jun 1995	160 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2000	63
July	36.2°C26 Jul 2022	12.7°C13 Jul 1993	110 mm9 Jul 2014	335 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1988	63
August	39.0°C6 Aug 2022	11.5°C28 Aug 1995	114 mm26 Aug 1983	189 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2011	63
September	34.1°C14 Sep 2020	8.0°C29 Sep 1977	352 mm11 Sep 1986	460 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 1985	63
October	27.2°C2 Oct 2011	2.3°C29 Oct 1997	170 mm18 Oct 1966	376 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 1965	63
November	25.0°C4 Nov 2004	-1.8°C21 Nov 1993	96 mm9 Nov 1967	364 mm1962 · driest 12 mm in 1983	63
December	18.9°C2 Dec 2023	-6.5°C28 Dec 1996	79 mm13 Dec 2011	278 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 2015	63

Typical days per month at ZADAR, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	3	3
February	0	0	3	2
March	0	0	<1	2
April	<1	0	0	2
May	6	<1	0	2
June	21	5	0	2
July	30	13	0	1
August	30	14	0	2
September	15	<1	0	3
October	<1	0	0	3
November	0	0	<1	4
December	0	0	2	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 92); on 2011–2025 it is May (88). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ZADAR’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	27%	9%	32%	8.9–12.5°C
February	<1%	26%	8%	32%	9.3–13.4°C
March	1%	24%	7%	26%	12.1–15.9°C
April	14%	25%	7%	29%	15.6–18.6°C
May	62%	23%	7%	24%	19.6–23.8°C
June	82%	17%	5%	15%	24.1–28.0°C
July	89%	11%	3%	7%	26.9–30.6°C
August	86%	14%	6%	14%	26.7–30.7°C
September	76%	22%	10%	25%	22.7–26.2°C
October	48%	23%	10%	28%	19.0–21.7°C
November	4%	33%	14%	45%	13.9–17.3°C
December	0%	30%	11%	37%	10.3–13.8°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1961Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 63-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1980.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3193710
NOAA station: HRE00155185 · ZADAR
Station distance: 34.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.91°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from ZADAR is what differs

Zadar→Biograd na Moru→Bibinje→Vir→Sukošan→Benkovac→

Or put two places side by side: Pakoštane vs Zadar

Best time to visitPakoštane.

May

July

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Pakoštane runs +1.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Pakoštane.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Pakoštane runs +1.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.