September–October
Wk 39–41
The quietest stretch among this region's best weather weeks: crowd level around 19 out of 100, weather comfort near 62.
- Crowd level
- 9–36
- Comfort
- 57–66
Croatia · Dalmatien
Dalmatia: 1,200 kilometres of coast, 78 per cent of Croatia's islands
The landscape runs from the island of Pag to beyond the Bay of Kotor and has carried its name since the first century, after the Delmatae. Greeks founded colonies here, Rome made Salona its provincial capital, Venice and the Ottomans divided the landscape between them.
Busiest week
AugustCrowd level 100
Wk 32 · 6,125,245 overnight stays
Quietest weeks
JanuaryCrowd level 0
Wk 1–3 · measured against the region's own year, not against other regions
Sweet spot
September–OctoberCrowd level 9–36
Wk 39–41 · quietest while the weather still holds
Warmest month
23 °CComfort 83
July · around 55 mm of rain in the month
The overnight-stay figures come from a statistical area that this destination shares with Dubrovnik, Istrien and Kvarner Bucht. They cover the whole area, not Dalmatien on its own.
Dalmatien in brief
Dalmatia is a geographical and historical region on the east coast of the Adriatic; it runs from the island of Pag in the north to beyond the Bay of Kotor in the south. The largely Croatian coastland covers 11,960 square kilometres, held around 850,000 inhabitants in 2023, and has carried no official status since the beginning of the twentieth century. Off the roughly 1,200 kilometres of coast lie around 942 islands, islets, cliffs and rocks, 78 per cent of all Croatian islands. At the 2021 census Split, Zadar, Šibenik and Dubrovnik were the largest cities of the Croatian part.
When is Dalmatien busy, when is it quiet?
Click a week. The panel on the right explains why it is busy or quiet.
Weather profile
Weather comfort is an absolute scale (0 = poor, 100 = ideal) and a second axis next to the season-relative crowd level.
JanuaryØ 0
FebruaryØ 1
MarchØ 2
AprilØ 9
MayØ 20
JuneØ 49
JulyØ 90
AugustØ 94
SeptemberØ 40
OctoberØ 10
NovemberØ 2
DecemberØ 1
Colour = season-relative crowd levelBar = weather comfort (Sun & warmth), absolute 0–100
Why this week?
September · Wk 39
Crowd level36/100 · moderate
quietbusy
Weather comfort28/100 · Sun & warmth
+36 % versus the region's annual average.
- Contributing months
- September (90 %) · October (10 %)
- Overnight stays/week
- 2,254,182
- Main source markets
- Germany (27 %) · Croatia (12 %) · Slovenia (10 %) · 90% of guests modelled
- Region range
- 71,451–6,125,245 (avg 1,655,941)
- Base years
- 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (excluding 2020, 2021)
v1: Crowd-Score aus der Eurostat-Basisschicht (Übernachtungen), moduliert vom Schulferien-Druck der Quellmärkte, region-spezifisch gewichtet mit dem Quellland-Mix. Season-relativ zur Region. Event-Schichten folgen.
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The travel year in Dalmatien, month by month
The year as a table to read and to cite: crowd level for every month, plus weather comfort and temperature from the climate normals.
| Month | Crowd level0–100, season-relative | Weather comfort0–100, profile “mild” | Avg temperature |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 12 | 1 °C |
| February | 1 | 16 | 4 °C |
| March | 2 | 27 | 7 °C |
| April | 9 | 45 | 11 °C |
| May | 20 | 59 | 15 °C |
| June | 49 | 80 | 21 °C |
| July | 90 | 83 | 23 °C |
| August | 94 | 82 | 23 °C |
| September | 40 | 71 | 17 °C |
| October | 10 | 54 | 13 °C |
| November | 2 | 27 | 7 °C |
| December | 1 | 14 | 3 °C |
The crowd level is season-relative: 100 is the annual peak of Dalmatien itself, not the busiest destination in Europe. The figures say when it is quiet here — not where it is quieter than elsewhere.
Weather comfort 0–100 from the climate normals, profile “mild” – the same profile as the recommendation above, not the selection in the calendar. A “–” means the data for that month is missing.
Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026
The windows worth catching
Three windows from the model: first whether the weather suits the region, then how busy it gets.
May
Wk 20–22
A second option, also with usable weather: crowd level around 22, weather comfort near 64.
- Crowd level
- 18–30
- Comfort
- 57–70
August
Wk 31–33
The region's peak: crowd level around 99 out of 100. Only if the dates are fixed.
- Crowd level
- 97–100
- Comfort
- 82–83
Dalmatien compared with Europe
How full the accommodation is here, measured against Europe – on the only measure on which two travel regions can be compared.
- Bed occupancy in Dalmatien
- 21.8
- European median
- 23.1
per cent of bed places, annual mean
per cent of bed places, annual mean
Furthest from the median: January, at <0.1× the value. Closest to the median: September, at 1.2× the value.
Mean across 12 months, weighted by their weeks. This occupancy compares travel regions with one another. The crowding in the table above compares Dalmatien with itself. The two measures are never combined.
Climate through the year
Average temperature with day/night range and precipitation across the twelve months.
- Avg temperature
- Day/night range
- Precipitation
| Month | Avg temperature (°C) | Day avg (°C) | Night avg (°C) | Precipitation (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 0 | 1 | -1 | 117 |
| Feb | 2 | 4 | 1 | 128 |
| Mar | 5 | 7 | 3 | 127 |
| Apr | 8 | 11 | 6 | 87 |
| May | 12 | 15 | 10 | 131 |
| Jun | 18 | 21 | 16 | 67 |
| Jul | 20 | 23 | 18 | 55 |
| Aug | 20 | 23 | 17 | 68 |
| Sep | 15 | 17 | 13 | 132 |
| Oct | 11 | 13 | 9 | 131 |
| Nov | 6 | 7 | 5 | 195 |
| Dec | 2 | 3 | 1 | 143 |
The band shows mean daytime to nighttime temperature. Precipitation shown as monthly total (mm). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
How sunny?
How much sun a typical day delivers, month by month, expressed as hours of full midday sun.
Sunny
≈ 4.0 h of full midday sun per day, annual average
Jun
Sunniest month
| Month | ≈ h of full midday sun per day |
|---|---|
| Jan | 1.6 |
| Feb | 2.3 |
| Mar | 3.9 |
| Apr | 5.2 |
| May | 5.7 |
| Jun | 6.7 |
| Jul | 6.7 |
| Aug | 5.8 |
| Sep | 4.2 |
| Oct | 2.9 |
| Nov | 1.6 |
| Dec | 1.3 |
Basis: mean daily solar irradiance in kWh/m²/day; 1 kWh/m² is roughly one hour of full midday sun (1,000 W/m²). Not the same as measured sunshine duration. Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
Directly reachable from
Destination airports of Dalmatien and every European departure airport with a direct connection to them.
Destination airports
Select a destination airport to see the direct departure airports.
“Directly reachable” means a direct connection exists according to our sources. We do not show a live timetable. Availability and flight days can vary by season and airline.
Ski areas in Dalmatien
Mapped ski areas in this region with slope kilometres, lifts and elevation, plus the long-term snow average from our climate data.
- Ski areas
- 2
- Slopes in total
- 11 km
- Lifts
- 9
- Highest point
- 1,354 m
On a long-term average, February sees the most snow: 6 cm mean snow depth across the region.
| Ski area | Slopes | Lifts | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platak | 8.99 km | 7 | 1,085–1,354 m270 m vertical drop |
| Rudnik Tršće | 1.6 km | 2 | 830–1,019 m189 m vertical drop |
Slope, lift and elevation figures come from open mapping and are complete to varying degrees. “Not available” means not mapped, not “does not exist”. Opening hours and season are not included. Snow figures are long-term averages for the whole region, not snow depth on the mountain and not a forecast.
Dalmatien in detail
The shape of a historical landscape
The region extends along the east coast of the Adriatic from the island of Pag to beyond the Bay of Kotor and borders largely on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-east. The name has existed since the first century and goes back to the Delmatae, a tribe of the Illyrians; the historical region has carried no official status since the beginning of the twentieth century. The Croatian part is divided today into four counties, from north to south Zadar with 3,643, Šibenik-Knin with 2,994, Split-Dalmatia with 4,524 and Dubrovnik-Neretva with 1,782 square kilometres. The population is concentrated along the coast; the interior is thinly settled, and in the hinterland around Knin the Krajina Serbs formed the majority before the war of 1990 to 1995.
Islands and coast
Off the roughly 1,200 kilometres of coast lie around 942 islands, islets, cliffs and rocks with a combined area of 2,070 square kilometres, 78 per cent of all Croatian islands. At the level of Cape Planka the pattern changes: to the north lie more numerous, smaller islands running parallel to the coast, such as Pag, Ugljan, Pašman, Dugi otok, Kornati and Žirje, and in the middle larger ones aligned east to west, such as Hvar, Brač, Šolta, Korčula, Vis, Lastovo and Čiovo. The southernmost islands are Mljet and the Elaphiti Islands, and with them comes the Pelješac peninsula. The southern part of the Velebit coast is steep and hard to reach, while the country around Zadar, Biograd and Trogir is fertile.
Greeks and Romans
From the sixth century BC Greek colonies grew up on the coast and on the islands: Epidauros and Melaina Korkyra, and in the fourth century BC Issa, Pharos, Narona and Rhizon. Pharos on Hvar, today Stari Grad, was founded in 385/384 BC from the Cycladic island of Paros. Issa on Vis was a Doric Syracusan foundation, lived by the wine trade and itself founded Tragurion, today Trogir, and Epetion, today Stobreč. Salona was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and is estimated at around 60,000 inhabitants for the second century; not far from it the emperor Diocletian, himself from Dalmatia, had his palace built and withdrew there in 305, and it stands today as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Split.
Venice, Ottomans, Austria
The peace of 1540 left Venice a few coastal towns; the rest became an Ottoman sanjak, governed from the fortress of Klis. The Peace of Karlowitz ended a war begun in 1645 and gave Dalmatia to Venice in 1699, with the Republic of Ragusa and its surrounding land excepted. After the fall of the Republic of Venice the landscape passed to Austria in 1797 and became a crown land; in 1900 that crown land counted 12,835 square kilometres and 610,000 inhabitants. From the time of the Republic of Ragusa come the walls of Ston: originally more than seven kilometres long, they join Ston and Mali Ston on the Pelješac peninsula and protected the salt pans from the fourteenth century on.
World Heritage, national parks, the kitchen
The UNESCO World Heritage list holds the fortifications in Zadar, the cathedral of St James together with the fortresses in Šibenik, and the historic centre of Trogir. The Kornati are a group of more than 100 islands and islets and a national park, reached by way of Murter; on Mljet the national park takes in two salt lakes, one of which carries an island in the lake. On Brač the beach of Zlatni Rat lies at Bol, the Golden Horn, and Korčula counts as the birthplace of Marco Polo. On the table come peka, in which meat, vegetables and potatoes bake under a bell in a cast-iron pot, along with olive oil, pršut and Pag cheese made of sheep's milk.
How it differs from the other Adriatic destinations
The four Croatian destinations cut the same coast differently: Dalmatia is a coastland of 11,960 square kilometres, largely in Croatia, with around 850,000 inhabitants, Istria a peninsula of some 3,500 square kilometres, the Kvarner a sea area of four stretches of water and Dubrovnik a city that counted 41,562 inhabitants with all its districts in 2021. Dubrovnik lies in Dalmatia, and the two names denote areas of different orders of magnitude: here a historical landscape on the east coast of the Adriatic whose Croatian part is divided into four counties, there a city that is the seat of the smallest of those four at 1,782 square kilometres and, at the 2021 census, one of four cities of the Croatian part above 40,000 inhabitants. What holds for Split, Zadar or Šibenik does not therefore already hold for Dubrovnik. The Republic of Ragusa joins the two: the Peace of Karlowitz gave Dalmatia to Venice in 1699 and expressly excepted the republic, and its walls of Ston, originally more than seven kilometres long, stand on the Pelješac peninsula. Northwards the boundary is soft: the island of Pag lies in the Kvarner Bay and is mostly reckoned to Dalmatia, and its sheep's cheese belongs to both kitchens. Roman work stands in Dalmatia as in Istria: the Palace of Diocletian in Split, the amphitheatre, the temple of Augustus and the Arch of the Sergii in Pula.
Frequently asked questions about the best time to visit Dalmatien
Short answers on timing, weather and getting there, all from the data on this page.
When is the best time to visit Dalmatien?
- The best time to visit Dalmatien is September–October (Wk 39–41): it is the quietest stretch among the region's best weather weeks – crowd level around 19 out of 100, weather comfort about 62 out of 100.
When is Dalmatien quietest?
- January (Wk 1–3) is the quietest time in Dalmatien. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.
When is Dalmatien busiest?
- Dalmatien is busiest in August (Wk 32) with around 6,125,245 overnight stays in the peak week.
What is the weather like in Dalmatien and when is it warmest?
- It is warmest in Dalmatien in July with an average of 23 °C and around 55 mm of rain in the month.
When is there the most snow in Dalmatien and when are ski conditions best?
- Dalmatien has the most snow in February with an average of around 6 cm. Those are the most reliable weeks for winter sports.
When is Dalmatien least busy while still having good snow?
- The best time for quiet winter sports in Dalmatien is January: with still around 6 cm of snow, the crowd level of about 0 out of 100 is below peak season.
How do you get to Dalmatien?
- Dalmatien is reachable via 6 destination airports with direct flights, including Dubrovnik Airport (DBV), Split Airport (SPU) and Zadar Airport (ZAD).
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Sources and data vintages
Every provenance note on this page, collected in one place.
- Cover photo
- Photo by Frans Ruiter on Unsplash
- Cover video
- Video by Lazar Krstić on Pexels
- Crowding figures
- Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026. v1 approximation, calculated from Eurostat overnight stays. Day tourism and cruises (Venice, Dubrovnik …) are still missing, so we show these destinations as quieter than they are. The crowd score is a model-based forecast, not a measurement.
- Climate data
- Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.
- Reachability
Data sources: direct connections from Wikipedia (“Airlines and destinations”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, aggregated and modified by us), cross-checked with Eurostat, Destatis and the UK Civil Aviation Authority; airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain). The derived connection data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Data as of: September 2026
- Ski areas
Data sources: ski areas from OpenSkiMap, based on OpenStreetMap, licensed under ODbL 1.0; snow depths from ERA5-Land (Copernicus Climate Change Service).
- Region text
- Text by HolidayHub, written from Wikivoyage „Dalmatien“ (1793072) · Wikipedia „Dalmatien“ (269705694) · Wikidata Q528042. Wikivoyage and Wikipedia are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikidata CC0.
- Data basis
- All figures are approximations derived from open data (crowd level from Eurostat overnight stays, climate from Copernicus/ERA5-Land), not measurements.