Belgrade experiences a moderate continental climate with four distinct seasons and influences by the southeast-east wind locally known as the Košava. Blowing mostly in autumn and winter Košava brings clear and dry weather to the city.

Autumn’s in Belgrade are rather long – certainly longer than autumn – and characterized by longer sunny and warm periods: in other words the incarnations of the so-called Indian summer. Winter is relatively mild with temperatures dropping bellow zero for an average of 21 days per year. Temperatures hover around 0.10C during January, making it the coldest of the year. Spring is short with a lot of rain and summers arrives abruptly and unannounced. July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 22.1 °C. Overall Belgrade experiences around 31 days per year 31 days a year when the temperature is above 30 °C, and 95 days when the temperature is above 25 °C.

Belgrade receives about 700 millimeters (27.56 in) of precipitation a year – the bulk of it falling during May and June – and enjoys an average of 2096 sunny hours annually. Both July and August average 10 sunny hours a day and are considered to be the sunniest month of the year, while on the other end December and January only experience an average of 2–2.3 sunny hours a day.