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Best time to visit
Jelsa.

May leads for comfortable weather in Jelsa: typically 23.2°C by day, 15.4°C at night, with 49 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.2°C

Typical low15.4°C

Rain in May49 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · September

92climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

92climate match

Outdoors

April

April · March · May

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 39 against May’s 92 — days reach only 12.8°C, 11° 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

3912.8° / 6.2°

Feb

4113.3° / 6.2°

Mar

5415.6° / 8.4°

Apr

6818.6° / 11.3°

May

9223.2° / 15.4°

Jun

7827.6° / 19.4°

Jul

6630.6° / 22°

Aug

6430.8° / 22.1°

Sep

7926.6° / 18.4°

Oct

8522.3° / 14.9°

Nov

5617.7° / 11.3°

Dec

4014.1° / 7.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Jelsa — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 7 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.8°C	6.2°C	63 mm	7.7	14.1°C	9 h 19	39	Strong coverage
February	13.3°C	6.2°C	63 mm	7.3	13.4°C	10 h 27	41	Strong coverage
March	15.6°C	8.4°C	58 mm	6.8	13.6°C	11 h 47	54	Strong coverage
April	18.6°C	11.3°C	61 mm	7.2	14.9°C	13 h 20	68	Strong coverage
May	23.2°C	15.4°C	49 mm	5.8	18.0°C	14 h 38	92	Strong coverage
June	27.6°C	19.4°C	39 mm	4.3	21.9°C	15 h 21	78	Strong coverage
July	30.6°C	22°C	24 mm	2.3	24.2°C	15 h 05	66	Strong coverage
August	30.8°C	22.1°C	39 mm	3	24.8°C	13 h 57	64	Strong coverage
September	26.6°C	18.4°C	68 mm	5	23.0°C	12 h 27	79	Strong coverage
October	22.3°C	14.9°C	81 mm	6.1	20.9°C	10 h 57	85	Strong coverage
November	17.7°C	11.3°C	115 mm	9.3	18.6°C	9 h 39	56	Strong coverage
December	14.1°C	7.7°C	96 mm	8.7	16.2°C	9 h 00	40	Strong coverage

What has changed

Jelsa runs +1.6°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

+0.9

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+1.6

Apr

+1.3

May

+1.2

Jun

+2.3

Jul

+2.0

Aug

+2.7

Sep

+1.8

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+1.8

Dec

+1.5

May daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 23.2°C.

Records at HVAR, 1876–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.6°C30 Jan 1949	-7.0°C24 Jan 1942	108 mm15 Jan 1933	219 mm1942 · driest 3 mm in 1989	128
February	23.4°C22 Feb 1990	-5.5°C2 Feb 1929	73 mm10 Feb 1887	224 mm1942 · driest 3 mm in 1884	129
March	24.5°C30 Mar 2017	-4.6°C4 Mar 1949	79 mm14 Mar 1971	225 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 1953	128
April	27.8°C26 Apr 1952	0.0°C7 Apr 1929	67 mm17 Apr 1974	208 mm1908 · driest 1 mm in 1949	131
May	33.0°C20 May 2009	5.1°C4 May 1935	86 mm27 May 1976	164 mm1978 · driest 1 mm in 1908	132
June	38.0°C28 Jun 2019	10.0°C8 Jun 1962	114 mm1 Jun 2009	227 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1950	131
July	37.5°C29 Jul 1945	12.8°C11 Jul 1969	78 mm6 Jul 1992	144 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1928	130
August	37.7°C8 Aug 1956	9.7°C19 Aug 1949	123 mm24 Aug 1984	323 mm1880 · driest 0 mm in 1960	130
September	34.4°C6 Sep 2011	8.0°C28 Sep 1931	112 mm1 Sep 2014	253 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1917	129
October	31.5°C1 Oct 1932	4.9°C30 Oct 1971	173 mm10 Oct 1881	388 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1969	128
November	25.7°C3 Nov 2004	-3.0°C29 Nov 1915	139 mm14 Nov 2021	387 mm1885 · driest 17 mm in 1899	128
December	20.6°C7 Dec 1967	-5.0°C19 Dec 1927	142 mm2 Dec 2014	281 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 2015	128

Typical days per month at HVAR, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	1	2
February	0	0	1	2
March	0	0	<1	2
April	<1	0	0	2
May	9	<1	0	1
June	24	7	0	1
July	31	20	0	<1
August	31	21	0	1
September	23	4	0	2
October	5	<1	0	2
November	<1	0	0	4
December	0	0	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in HVAR’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%	28%	8%	33%	9.8–13.8°C
February	<1%	26%	8%	31%	10.7–14.6°C
March	2%	25%	7%	28%	12.6–16.6°C
April	20%	23%	6%	25%	16.3–19.2°C
May	68%	18%	5%	17%	20.4–24.1°C
June	85%	15%	4%	10%	24.7–28.5°C
July	92%	8%	2%	3%	27.7–31.6°C
August	90%	11%	4%	8%	27.3–31.6°C
September	82%	16%	6%	16%	23.8–27.9°C
October	59%	24%	9%	28%	19.4–23.2°C
November	11%	31%	12%	40%	14.8–18.8°C
December	<1%	31%	11%	39%	11.7–15.1°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.

1877Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 118-year average. Warmest: 2018. Coolest: 1940.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3198673
NOAA station: HRE00105189 · HVAR
Station distance: 19.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.16°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 7 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 HVAR is what differs

Makarska→Hvar→Stari Grad→Tučepi→Bol→Vis→

Or put two places side by side: Jelsa vs Makarska

Best time to visitJelsa.

May

July

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Jelsa runs +1.6°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Jelsa.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Jelsa runs +1.6°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.