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Lin is a village on a small piece of land sticking out into Lake Ohrid. On the hill above are the coloured floor mosaics of a church from the 500s, and in the lake below, archaeologists found one of Europe's oldest villages built on wooden stilts.

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Lin is a village on a small piece of land sticking out into Lake Ohrid. On the hill above are the coloured floor mosaics of a church from the 500s, and in the lake below, archaeologists found one of Europe's oldest villages built on wooden stilts.

Climate by month

Thirty-year normals for Lin, 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 -2°C), and the wettest is December (102 mm). Total annual rainfall averages 860 mm.

MonthHighLow RainWet daysSun/day
January 5°C -2°C 94 mm 11 6.5 h
February 7°C -1°C 77 mm 10 7.7 h
March 10°C 2°C 87 mm 12 9.1 h
April 15°C 6°C 82 mm 13 10.4 h
May 20°C 10°C 69 mm 12 11.6 h
June 24°C 15°C 42 mm 8 13.4 h
July 27°C 18°C 34 mm 6 13.6 h
August 27°C 18°C 30 mm 6 12.6 h
September 22°C 14°C 63 mm 8 10.4 h
October 17°C 10°C 79 mm 9 8.7 h
November 12°C 5°C 101 mm 11 6.7 h
December 6°C 0°C 102 mm 12 6.1 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

More images

The 6th-century paleochristian basilica in Lin, Albania
Basilica Lin, Albania 2018 01 Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs · CC BY-SA 4.0
Village of Lin on the shores of Lake Ohrid, Albania
Lin and lake d_proffer · CC BY 2.0
Lane in Lin – Albania in 2001
Lin Helmut Kienzle · CC BY 4.0

Connected subjects

These are real relationships in the Atlas — places that are near this one, and subjects it genuinely belongs with. Nothing here is a generic recommendation.

Nearby

Lake

Lake Ohrid

One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.

Liqeni i OhritKorce
Historic site

Lin Basilica Mosaics

Floor mosaics of birds and vines from a hilltop basilica above Lake Ohrid.

Korce
Town

Pogradec

A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.

PogradeciKorce
Subject

Drilon Springs

Spring-fed canals and plane trees on the Ohrid shore east of Pogradec.

Korce

Related subjects

Lake

Lake Ohrid

One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.

Liqeni i OhritKorce

Sources

  • Wikipedia — Lin, Pogradec — 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 Q851060 · 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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