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Gjirokastër County greek minorityborder

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Dropull is a wide valley of villages near the Greek border where many people speak Greek.

Simple explanation

Dropull is a wide valley of villages near the Greek border where many people speak Greek.

Climate by month

Thirty-year normals for Dropull, 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 31°C), the coldest is January (mean daily low 3°C), and the wettest is November (233 mm). Total annual rainfall averages 1,491 mm.

MonthHighLow RainWet daysSun/day
January 11°C 3°C 182 mm 12 6.8 h
February 12°C 3°C 154 mm 12 7.6 h
March 14°C 5°C 146 mm 12 9.2 h
April 18°C 8°C 109 mm 13 10.7 h
May 23°C 13°C 87 mm 11 11.9 h
June 27°C 17°C 47 mm 8 13.6 h
July 31°C 20°C 22 mm 4 13.8 h
August 31°C 20°C 28 mm 5 12.8 h
September 26°C 16°C 116 mm 9 10.6 h
October 21°C 12°C 155 mm 9 9.0 h
November 16°C 8°C 233 mm 13 6.9 h
December 12°C 4°C 213 mm 14 6.2 h

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

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Traditional dropull Manthos 23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nemërçka Mountains, Southern Albania, Eastern slopes; view around Grammos, looking southwestward over Vjose valley at Përmet and Drino vally at Dropull behind
Aerial photograph Nemërçka Mountains from the air albinfo · CC BY 3.0
The valley of the Drinos near Gjirokastër, Southern Albania
Drino valley 2 Elias Bizannes · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Nearby

City

Gjirokastër

The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.

GjirokastraGjirokaster
Town

Libohovë

A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.

LibohovaGjirokaster

Sources

  • Wikipedia — Dropull — 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 Q939519 · 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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