Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
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Pogradec sits on the shore of Lake Ohrid, one of the oldest and deepest lakes in Europe. People swim in it in summer and eat a fish called koran that lives only there. The lake is shared with North Macedonia.
Pogradec sits on the shore of Lake Ohrid, one of the oldest and deepest lakes in Europe. People swim in it in summer and eat a fish called koran that lives only there. The lake is shared with North Macedonia.
Thirty-year normals for Pogradec, 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 -1°C), and the wettest is December (96 mm). Total annual rainfall averages 835 mm.
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Wet days | Sun/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5°C | -1°C | 90 mm | 11 | 6.5 h |
| February | 7°C | -0°C | 75 mm | 10 | 7.7 h |
| March | 10°C | 2°C | 83 mm | 12 | 9.0 h |
| April | 15°C | 6°C | 78 mm | 13 | 10.4 h |
| May | 20°C | 10°C | 67 mm | 12 | 11.6 h |
| June | 24°C | 15°C | 44 mm | 8 | 13.4 h |
| July | 27°C | 18°C | 34 mm | 6 | 13.5 h |
| August | 27°C | 18°C | 33 mm | 6 | 12.6 h |
| September | 22°C | 14°C | 64 mm | 9 | 10.4 h |
| October | 18°C | 10°C | 78 mm | 9 | 8.6 h |
| November | 12°C | 5°C | 93 mm | 11 | 6.6 h |
| December | 7°C | 1°C | 96 mm | 12 | 6.0 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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The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
Floor mosaics of birds and vines from a hilltop basilica above Lake Ohrid.
A peninsula village on Lake Ohrid with a 6th-century basilica floor mosaic and a prehistoric pile settlement.
A town on a drained marsh plain, built around a sugar refinery in the 1950s.
A former nickel-mining town on the road to Lake Ohrid.
Spring-fed canals and plane trees on the Ohrid shore east of Pogradec.
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
The highland city and the lake town, 40 km apart in Albania's south-east.
Spring-fed canals and plane trees on the Ohrid shore east of Pogradec.
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