Climate

The climate in Zlatibor is alpine and subalpine with characteristic features. The summers are pleasantly warm with cool nights and winters are quite long, relatively harsh with plenty of precipitation. March is the driest months of the year and precipitation is the highest in May and October. Snow falls from October to May, sometimes with shorter and sometimes with longer breaks, and stays on the ground an average for 100 days.

Although summer temperatures may exceed 30 degrees Celsius, they are tolerable because of the presence of winds that intersect over the mountain, which, together with the products of conifer needles have beneficial effects on the human body.

Zlatibor winds that come from the southwest and northwest are the fastest, and those blowing from the northeast are the strongest throughout the year and lower the air temperature in all seasons. Southwest and south winds occur from autumn until spring, and bring warmer air currents. Zlatibor does not have many windy days. A recorded average is 56 days a year.

The so-called local mountain winds blow in early spring, late autumn, and during the summer in morning hours. In some parts of Zlatibor there are ‘nocturnal’ winds created by large temperature differences between the valleys and the mountain winds.

What is particularly significant, and what distinguishes Zlatibor from other mountain resorts is an extremely large number of hours of sunshine (insolation), almost 2,000 hours per year on average. The highest number of sunshine hours is recorded in July (267 hours) and August (260 hours), and the lowest in December (75 hours).