When is the best time to visit North Macedonia?

Most guides agree on Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct. Ohrid: May to June, and September (warm enough to swim, without the crowds and prices of high summer). Skopje: April to June, and September to October (high summer reaches the high thirties, and winter brings the smog).

When is the rainy season in North Macedonia?

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

North Macedonia travel tips

Best time to visit North Macedonia

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 North Macedonia agrees on Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct.

Place	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	In words
OhridMay to June, and September (warm enough to swim, without the crowds and prices of high summer)													May to June, and September (warm enough to swim, without the crowds and prices of high summer)
SkopjeApril to June, and September to October (high summer reaches the high thirties, and winter brings the smog)													April to June, and September to October (high summer reaches the high thirties, and winter brings the smog)

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

The guides in North Macedonia

The church of St John at Kaneo above the lake — Ohrid, North Macedonia

OhridNorth MacedoniaAn old town of Byzantine churches on a lake more than a million years old, and the whole country’s summer holiday

The square and its equestrian statue under a storm — Skopje, North Macedonia

SkopjeNorth MacedoniaAn Ottoman bazaar on one bank and a forest of new bronze statues on the other, with a canyon twenty minutes away