When is the best time to visit Albania?

Most guides agree on Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct. Tirana: April to June, and September to October (high summer is 35°C and the city empties to the coast). Sarandë: May to June, and September (high summer is packed and 32°C; the sea is warm into the autumn). Ksamil: May to June, and September (high summer is shoulder to shoulder on the sand; the water stays warm past the crowds). Berat: April to June, and September to October (July and August are 35°C in the valley).

When is the rainy season in Albania?

No guide in Albania has a month above 250 mm; the wet months are wet, not under water.

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Best time to visit Albania

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Albania agrees on Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct.

Place	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	In words
TiranaApril to June, and September to October (high summer is 35°C and the city empties to the coast)													April to June, and September to October (high summer is 35°C and the city empties to the coast)
SarandëMay to June, and September (high summer is packed and 32°C; the sea is warm into the autumn)													May to June, and September (high summer is packed and 32°C; the sea is warm into the autumn)
KsamilMay to June, and September (high summer is shoulder to shoulder on the sand; the water stays warm past the crowds)													May to June, and September (high summer is shoulder to shoulder on the sand; the water stays warm past the crowds)
BeratApril to June, and September to October (July and August are 35°C in the valley)													April to June, and September to October (July and August are 35°C in the valley)
GjirokastërApril to June, and September to October (summer afternoons are hot and the stone holds it)													April to June, and September to October (summer afternoons are hot and the stone holds it)
HimarëMay to June, and September to early October (high summer fills the beaches; the water is warmest in the autumn)													May to June, and September to early October (high summer fills the beaches; the water is warmest in the autumn)

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Albania

Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, the equestrian statue and the painted ministries around it

TiranaAlbaniaA capital painted in colours to shake off the grey, with bunkers turned into galleries and a café on every corner

The bay at Sarandë, boats on flat blue water with the hills behind

SarandëAlbaniaA horseshoe bay facing Corfu, the gateway to the Riviera, and a town that quadruples in August

A red boat over the turquoise shallows at Ksamil, seen from above

KsamilAlbaniaThree tiny islands you can swim to, water the colour of the Maldives, and a village that has grown faster than its plumbing

The white Ottoman houses of Mangalem in Berat, window above window up the hill

BeratAlbaniaA thousand windows climbing two hillsides above a river, a castle people still live in, and the best raki in the country

Gjirokastër’s stone roofs climbing the mountainside, with the valley beyond

GjirokastërAlbaniaA city of stone roofs on a mountainside, a fortress with a captured plane on the wall, and the birthplace of a dictator and a novelist

A pebble beach on the Himarë coast, clear water and the green hills behind

HimarëAlbaniaThe quiet middle of the Riviera: a Greek-speaking old village on the hill, a beach town below, and the Llogara pass above it all