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Plitvice Lakes in January
avoid · not the best time to go · the coolest month of the year
The year in Plitvice Lakes
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- JanJPlitvice Lakes in January: avoid
- FebFPlitvice Lakes in February: ok
- MarMPlitvice Lakes in March: ok
- AprAPlitvice Lakes in April: ok
- MayMPlitvice Lakes in May: ok, busy
- JunJPlitvice Lakes in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJPlitvice Lakes in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAPlitvice Lakes in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSPlitvice Lakes in September: ok, busy
- OctOPlitvice Lakes in October: sweet spot
- NovNPlitvice Lakes in November: avoid
- DecDPlitvice Lakes in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 5°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | -1°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 1°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 12 · 134 mm |
| Humidity | 83% |
| Sunshine | 5.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 9.2 h/day |
| Hiking | 4 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C |
| Crowds | 80 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Mukinje, in the park: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in January
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Plitvice Lakes in pictures
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Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Romanceor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -1°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 12 or so rainy days.
- Humidity averages 83%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Croatia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Plitvice Lakes: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
January elsewhere
In January from
The other months at Plitvice Lakes
- January
- February ok
- March ok
- April ok
- May ok
- June sweet spot
- July sweet spot
- August sweet spot
- September ok
- October sweet spot
- November avoid
- December avoid
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