Bulgaria · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Plovdiv.

September leads for comfortable weather in Plovdiv: typically 26.2°C by day, 11.8°C at night, with 52 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.2°C

Typical low11.8°C

Rain in September52 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

84climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

78climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 6 against September’s 84 — days reach only 7.2°C, 17° 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

67.2° / -2.6°

Feb

159.4° / -1.3°

Mar

3313.2° / 1.9°

Apr

5818.2° / 5.7°

May

7623° / 10.2°

Jun

7727.6° / 13.9°

Jul

7330.7° / 15.9°

Aug

7431.1° / 15.9°

Sep

8426.2° / 11.8°

Oct

6319.7° / 7.6°

Nov

3713.4° / 3.2°

Dec

78.1° / -0.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Plovdiv — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.2°C	-2.6°C	62 mm	6.9	9 h 25	6	Strong coverage
February	9.4°C	-1.3°C	64 mm	6.8	10 h 30	15	Strong coverage
March	13.2°C	1.9°C	67 mm	7	11 h 48	33	Strong coverage
April	18.2°C	5.7°C	55 mm	6.4	13 h 18	58	Strong coverage
May	23°C	10.2°C	84 mm	8.4	14 h 33	76	Strong coverage
June	27.6°C	13.9°C	73 mm	7.1	15 h 14	77	Strong coverage
July	30.7°C	15.9°C	53 mm	4.2	14 h 58	73	Strong coverage
August	31.1°C	15.9°C	40 mm	2.7	13 h 53	74	Strong coverage
September	26.2°C	11.8°C	52 mm	3.6	12 h 26	84	Strong coverage
October	19.7°C	7.6°C	86 mm	5.7	10 h 59	63	Strong coverage
November	13.4°C	3.2°C	68 mm	5.8	9 h 44	37	Strong coverage
December	8.1°C	-0.9°C	89 mm	8	9 h 07	7	Strong coverage

What has changed

Plovdiv runs +1.7°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

+2.0

Feb

+2.4

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+1.0

May

+0.6

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+2.4

Aug

+3.3

Sep

+1.4

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.7

Dec

+1.4

September daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 27.8°C.

Records at KURDJALI, 1957–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	20.6°C31 Jan 2002	-17.8°C19 Jan 1967	88 mm7 Jan 2012	203 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1989	57
February	22.8°C6 Feb 2024	-19.5°C5 Feb 1991	82 mm5 Feb 2016	156 mm2010 · driest 1 mm in 2008	57
March	27.0°C24 Mar 1977	-18.0°C6 Mar 1987	117 mm16 Mar 2003	180 mm2015 · driest 3 mm in 1979	57
April	33.0°C6 Apr 1975	-8.2°C8 Apr 2003	73 mm18 Apr 1997	134 mm2014 · driest 1 mm in 1977	57
May	33.5°C3 May 2003	-1.6°C4 May 2000	134 mm16 May 2004	238 mm2005 · driest 2 mm in 2002	57
June	38.2°C30 Jun 2017	1.0°C18 Jun 1989	174 mm18 Jun 2009	205 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1990	57
July	43.2°C25 Jul 2007	4.2°C10 Jul 1998	272 mm1 Jul 2011	297 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1989	58
August	42.0°C12 Aug 1994	5.6°C31 Aug 1989	183 mm10 Aug 2011	238 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2003	58
September	37.5°C5 Sep 2015	1.5°C28 Sep 2018	264 mm20 Sep 2010	361 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1984	55
October	36.1°C1 Oct 1991	-5.0°C26 Oct 1979	265 mm13 Oct 2002	348 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1985	57
November	28.9°C5 Nov 2010	-9.5°C19 Nov 1993	126 mm23 Nov 2002	181 mm2002 · driest 1 mm in 1986	57
December	21.6°C2 Dec 2010	-19.5°C27 Dec 1992	171 mm3 Dec 2008	200 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2015	57

Typical days per month at KURDJALI, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	21	2
February	0	0	16	1
March	<1	0	10	2
April	2	0	2	2
May	11	<1	0	2
June	22	8	0	2
July	29	18	0	1
August	29	21	0	<1
September	19	6	0	1
October	5	<1	1	2
November	<1	0	7	2
December	0	0	17	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is May (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in KURDJALI’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	<1%	24%	7%	27%	4.4–9.6°C
February	2%	24%	6%	25%	4.9–13.4°C
March	9%	24%	6%	24%	9.5–15.5°C
April	35%	27%	7%	27%	15.7–20.5°C
May	61%	28%	7%	36%	20.7–24.4°C
June	75%	25%	7%	27%	25.7–29.0°C
July	87%	13%	4%	10%	27.9–32.8°C
August	90%	10%	3%	7%	27.4–32.8°C
September	84%	12%	3%	9%	23.9–27.9°C
October	48%	17%	6%	15%	17.3–22.6°C
November	9%	21%	7%	23%	9.9–16.1°C
December	<1%	27%	9%	28%	5.8–10.9°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.

1958Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 53-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1991.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 728193
NOAA station: BUM00015730 · KURDJALI
Station distance: 76.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 42.15°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
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 KURDJALI is what differs

Stara Zagora→Haskovo→Asenovgrad→Xánthi→Kardzhali→Dimitrovgrad→

Or put two places side by side: Plovdiv vs Stara Zagora

Best time to visitPlovdiv.