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Finiq is a group of villages inland from Sarandë. The Blue Eye spring is in this municipality, and so are the ruins of an ancient city called Phoenice.

Simple explanation

Finiq is a group of villages inland from Sarandë. The Blue Eye spring is in this municipality, and so are the ruins of an ancient city called Phoenice.

Climate by month

Thirty-year normals for Finiq, 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 4°C), and the wettest is November (266 mm). Total annual rainfall averages 1,552 mm.

MonthHighLow RainWet daysSun/day
January 12°C 4°C 192 mm 13 7.1 h
February 13°C 4°C 164 mm 12 7.9 h
March 15°C 6°C 149 mm 12 9.5 h
April 19°C 9°C 104 mm 12 10.9 h
May 23°C 14°C 69 mm 9 12.1 h
June 28°C 18°C 35 mm 5 13.7 h
July 31°C 21°C 16 mm 3 13.8 h
August 31°C 21°C 24 mm 4 12.9 h
September 26°C 18°C 122 mm 9 10.6 h
October 22°C 14°C 169 mm 10 9.1 h
November 17°C 10°C 266 mm 13 7.1 h
December 13°C 6°C 243 mm 14 6.5 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

Connected subjects

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Nearby

City

Sarandë

The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.

SarandaVlore
Spring

The Blue Eye

A karst spring of extraordinary clarity whose bottom has never been definitively reached.

Syri i KaltërVlore
Town

Delvinë

A hill town above the Sarandë plain with a mixed Albanian and Greek population.

DelvinaVlore
Town

Konispol

Albania's southernmost town, on the Greek border near the Butrint wetlands.

KonispoliVlore

Sources

  • Wikipedia — Finiq — 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 Q73664 · 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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