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Plovdiv weather by month

Plovdiv runs from about 3°C in January to 28°C in July, with December the wettest month at 117 mm.

warmest month

July

28°C

coolest month

January

3°C

wettest month

December

117 mm

worst air month

December

26 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Plovdiv
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January3°C45 mm213 h23
February9°C17 mm234 h18
March10°C40 mm267 h20
April16°C47 mm328 h12
May17°C83 mm313 h8
June26°C43 mm422 h7
July28°C16 mm429 h7
August27°C4 mm385 h7
September22°C49 mm311 h8
October16°C7 mm306 h10
November7°C28 mm198 h17
December5°C117 mm138 h26

About 3,544 hours of sun a year. Roughly 51 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.