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In plain language

The Cape of Rodon is a piece of land that sticks out into the sea north of Durrës. Skanderbeg built a castle there in the 1450s, and part of it has fallen into the sea.

Simple explanation

The Cape of Rodon is a piece of land that sticks out into the sea north of Durrës. Skanderbeg built a castle there in the 1450s, and part of it has fallen into the sea.

Climate by month

Thirty-year normals for Cape of Rodon, computed for this Atlas from daily ERA5 reanalysis over 1994–2023. These are long-run averages, not a forecast: any individual year can differ substantially.

The warmest month is August (mean daily high 27°C), the coldest is January (mean daily low 7°C), and the wettest is November (186 mm). Total annual rainfall averages 1,305 mm. Sea temperature peaks in August at about 25°C.

MonthHighLow RainWet daysSun/day Sea
January 11°C 7°C 146 mm 12 7.2 h 15°C
February 12°C 8°C 122 mm 11 8.2 h 13°C
March 14°C 9°C 120 mm 11 9.7 h 15°C
April 16°C 12°C 104 mm 11 10.8 h 16°C
May 20°C 16°C 73 mm 9 12.2 h 19°C
June 24°C 20°C 47 mm 5 13.6 h 23°C
July 27°C 22°C 30 mm 4 13.8 h 26°C
August 27°C 23°C 37 mm 4 12.9 h 25°C
September 24°C 20°C 128 mm 8 10.8 h 24°C
October 20°C 16°C 142 mm 10 9.2 h 23°C
November 17°C 13°C 186 mm 12 7.4 h 19°C
December 13°C 9°C 169 mm 13 6.7 h 16°C

Source: ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, 1994–2023 · “High” and “Low” are mean daily maximum and minimum air temperature. “Wet days” counts days with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Get this as JSON

More images

View from Cape of Rodon .
Kepi i Rodonit, Gjiri i Lalezit - Durres Albania 02 Gklea · CC BY-SA 4.0
View from Cape of Rodon
Kepi i Rodonit, Gjiri i Lalezit - Durres. 02 Molla94 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Connected subjects

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Nearby

City

Durrës

Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.

DurrësiDurres
Beach

Lalzit Bay

A pine-backed sand bay north of Durrës that has become Albania's main resort-property zone.

Durres

Related subjects

Person

Skanderbeg

Gjergj Kastrioti: an Ottoman commander who changed sides and held Albania against the empire for twenty-five years.

Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu

Sources

  • Wikipedia — Kepi i Rodonit — English Wikipedia · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Used to ground the deep-research section and as a discovery aid; not relied on alone for contested claims.
  • Wikidata — Wikidata item Q1627929 · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year.
  • Open-Meteo / ECMWF — Monthly climate normals, 1994–2023 · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Computed here from daily ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo over 1994–2023.
  • Wikimedia Commons — Photographs · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Each photograph carries its own creator, licence and file link beneath it. Only public-domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA files are published.

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