Split, Hvar and a thousand limestone islands along the Croatian Adriatic. Daytime highs in the Dalmatian Coast run from about 9 °C in January to 27 °C in July, an annual range of roughly 19 °C.
Measured against a beach trip, the conditions hold up June to August. July is the most consistent single month: highs near 27 °C, nights around 20 °C, and roughly 32 mm of rain across the month.
What rules months out here is rainfall and temperature, not any composite judgement. Rainfall is sharply seasonal: December averages 170 mm against 32 mm in July, so the wet season is the real planning constraint rather than heat or cold. January is the weakest month on these criteria.
Visitor numbers follow their own curve. Recorded overnight stays peak in the two weeks from 13 August at about 3.6 times an average fortnight for this region, against under 0.1 times in January. July, the most consistent month on the weather, is also near the top of that curve at 3.3 times average, so the two answers pull against each other. On the separate question of how much tourism the area carries all year, Split sits in the 4th densest of 294 European regions, at 67.5 overnight stays per resident a year.
What the Dalmatian Coast is known for
- Diocletian's Palace forms the living centre of Split, still full of shops and flats after 1,700 years
- Hvar and Vis are the standard island hops; Vis was closed to foreigners until 1989
- Krka and Plitvice national parks have travertine waterfall systems within reach inland
- The bura wind can shut ferry routes for a day at a time outside summer
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 3 | 129 | 12.0 |
| February | 10 | 3 | 98 | 10.3 |
| March | 12 | 5 | 105 | 10.3 |
| April | 15 | 9 | 98 | 11.6 |
| May | 20 | 13 | 78 | 10.3 |
| June | 24 | 17 | 44 | 6.8 |
| July | 27 | 20 | 32 | 4.7 |
| August | 27 | 19 | 51 | 5.4 |
| September | 23 | 16 | 93 | 8.4 |
| October | 18 | 12 | 146 | 10.6 |
| November | 14 | 8 | 169 | 13.9 |
| December | 10 | 5 | 170 | 12.9 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a beach trip is met across at least half the month.
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Nearby regions
Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Split, Hvar, Trogir, Makarska and Sibenik, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.