The Serbian climate varies between moderate continental climate in the north, with cold winters, and hot, humid summers with well distributed rainfall patterns, and a more Adriatic climate in the south with hot, dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy inland snowfall. Location of river ravines and plains in the northern area of the country enable occasional deep southward protrusion of polar air masses on winters, while hot Saharan air often intrudes over the Mediterranean Sea on summers. Average annual air temperature for the period 1961-1990 for the area with the altitude of up to 300 m amounts to 10.9 °C. The areas with the altitudes of 300 to 500 m have average annual temperature of around 10.0 °C, and over 1000 m of altitude around 6.0 °C.
May is the rainiest month with the average of 12 to 13 % of total annual amount. June and July have the least precipitation. Snow cover can occurs from November to March, and majority of days with snow cover is in January. January is the coldest month of the year.
In Vojvodina and Northern Serbia, east-southeast košava wind dominates over autumn and winter. Southwestern winds prevail in mountainous part of southwestern Serbia.
Annual summs of solar radiation are in the interval from 1500 to 2200 hours annually. In warmer part of the year, pleasant winds from northwest and west prevail.
