Varna, Bulgaria

Set along the Mediterranean, Varna (Bulgaria) is best understood through its weather data: our 2015–2024 climate record puts its peak at a 98/100 sun score in August, exactly the kind of reliability you want for a sand-and-sea holiday.

Across a typical year, afternoon temperatures swing between 7°C (January) and 29°C (August). The wet–dry contrast is modest: 37% rain-day odds in May against 14% in August. If 24°C is your bar for proper warmth, count on June–September.

Averaged by season, sun scores land at 72 for spring, 97 for summer, 73 for autumn and 51 for winter — with typical afternoons of 16°, 28°, 19° and 8°C respectively. Summer wins on the numbers and winter loses them; everything in between is a trade-off between warmth and crowds. If your dates are flexible, June buys you 26°C warmth at the quiet end of the season.

Best months to visit Varna

Ranked purely on sunshine odds, the podium is August at 98/100, then July at 97 and June at 95. Anything in May–October clears our 70-point reliability bar. At the other end, December scores just 49, the weakest month of the year.

Put against its 109 mediterranean peers in August, it lands in the sunnier half of the group, ahead of 51% of them.

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Right now the 15-day outlook shows 4 mostly-clear days (under 40% cloud) and 3 with real rain risk, with temperatures between 0°C and 16°C — which is how Varna earns its current 45/100 sun score.