Fier
BeenAlbaniaCsa
📷 RoyalHeritageAlb· CC BY-SA 4.0Mirësevini në Fier | Welcome to Fier (Albanian)
About
Fier is the seventh most populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Fier County and Fier Municipality. It is situated on the bank of Gjanica River in the Myzeqe Plain between the Seman in the north, the Vjosë in the south and the foothills of the Mallakastra Mountains in the southeast. Fier experiences a seasonal Mediterranean climate affected by its proximity to the Adriatic Sea in the west.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fier, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
Why visit
Visit Fier for religious and civic architecture, archaeology and older urban layers, markets, streets, food, and public squares. Use Fier to connect cultural institutions with streets, food, public space, and nearby landscape rather than treating each stop separately. A good itinerary should stay selective. The strongest plan in Fier usually starts with one main stop and treats the surrounding streets as part of the visit. The result is a day in Fier that can be followed, remembered, and adjusted. Day trips from Fier work best when they change the reader's understanding of the base, not just the mileage.
When to avoid
Do not visit Fier expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. The map of Fier is only half the problem; hours, heat, rain, crowds, and transport decide what is realistic. For Fier, check the practical conditions first, then decide whether walking, transit, or a taxi makes sense for each move. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Fier as a base rather than the whole destination.
Hot dry Mediterranean summer
From June through September Fier hits classic Mediterranean highs, daytime temperatures of 29 to 33°C with cloudless skies and very little rain. The Myzeqe plain bakes brown, the Apollonia ruins shimmer in the afternoon haze, and locals retreat indoors from 1 to 5 pm. Sea breezes off the Adriatic temper the worst of it. Evenings stay warm well past midnight.
Mild rainy winter
From November through February rain rolls in off the Adriatic, not freezing (highs around 12 to 15°C, lows around 5°C) but persistent and gray. The Myzeqe turns muddy, and Apollonia is gloriously empty though slippery underfoot. Snow is rare. The damp is more uncomfortable than the temperature suggests, pack a real raincoat, not just a windbreaker.
The next week in Fier
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Showers
23° / 13°
2.1 mm
UV High
Sat
Showers
22° / 14°
13.6 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Showers
20° / 13°
1.3 mm
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
23° / 11°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
21° / 11°
UV Moderate
Wed
Fog
22° / 13°
UV High
In May 16
JFMAMJJASOND
Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / 10°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.4h
05:25 – 19:50local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Fier
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA) at 79 km.
Getting around Fier
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Vectorized by Kj1595.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.