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Cities / Montenegro

Herceg Novi

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Saint. Michael Archangel Church
Saint. Michael Archangel Churchattraction
Konoba Škver
Konoba Škverrestaurant
Belavista Square
Belavista Squareattraction

Herceg Novi at a glance

Local time   · Europe/Podgorica
Today
Partly cloudy31° / 26°
Travel basics
Tap water
Treat or filter
Electricity
230V/50Hz · Type C / F
Drives on
Right
Currency
EUR
Language
Montenegrin
US passport
Visa-free

Entry rules change. Verify current requirements before booking.

City context
Population
20K
Elevation
40 m
Climate
Cfa
Founded
1382
MontenegroDetails and sources →
Град хиљаду скала | The city of a thousand steps

Why visit

Herceg Novi sits at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor with fortresses, churches, stairs, sea views, and slower waterfront meals. It is useful when the bay trip needs a base outside Kotor's busiest lane.

When to avoid

Do not visit Herceg Novi expecting every worthwhile stop to be close together or easy to improvise. For Herceg Novi, the practical constraints are part of the itinerary: hours, transport, weather, crowds, and the distance between worthwhile areas. For Herceg Novi, group stops tightly, verify hours, and use a ride when transit, darkness, or neighborhood conditions make that wiser. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Herceg Novi as a base rather than the whole destination.

Plan Herceg Novi

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Herceg Novi

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
Partly cloudy
31° / 26°
UV High
Wed
Partly cloudy
32° / 26°
UV High
Thu
Partly cloudy
32° / 27°
UV High
Fri
Partly cloudy
31° / 26°
UV High
Sat
Overcast
33° / 28°
UV High
Sun
Clear
34° / 27°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
34° / 28°
0.6 mm
UV High

Climate

Cool and wet season (Oct-Mar)

About 67% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 11°C, lows around 5°C.

Warmer dry season (Apr-Sep)

Typical highs around 23°C, lows around 15°C. About 76mm of rain a month.

In August 4

Drag to scrub across the year.

JFMAMJJASOND
Weather
29° / 19°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.0h
05:51 – 19:49local
Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest TIV · 17 km

Getting around Herceg Novi

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
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Operators and modes are aggregated from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications come from each feed’s route type codes.

About Herceg Novi

Herceg Novi is a town in Coastal region of Montenegro located at the Western entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 inhabitants. The town was founded as a fortress in 1382 by the King of Bosnia, Tvrtko I Kotromanić, and named after Saint Stephen but the name did not stick, instead it became known as Novi (transl. New), also Castelnuovo in Italian. Between 1482 and 1687 it was part of the Ottoman Empire and then from 1687 to 1797 the Albania Veneta of the Republic of Venice. It was a Catholic bishopric and remains a Latin titular see as Novi. Herceg Novi has had a turbulent past, despite being one of the youngest settlements on the Adriatic. A history of varied occupations has created a

Area
235 km²
Montenegro basics →Country context, advisories, and entry links for the practicalities shown above.
References5▾▴

The links below support the changing or licensed reference material on this page. Personal notes and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted individually.

  1. City background. Wikipedia summary may be clipped or paraphrased. Structured fields are cross-checked against the related references. Related: Wikidata.
JFMAMJJASOND31°-1°
highlowrainfallcomfortable months

Monthly highs, lows, rainfall — long-term averages, NASA POWER.

, Open-Elevation
, IANA Time Zone Database
, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Weather and climate. Seven-day forecast and long-term monthly climate for the city coordinates. Related: NASA POWER, Open-Meteo license.
  • Getting around. Transit operators from agency GTFS feeds and nearby commercial-airport reference data. Related: OurAirports.
  • Public holidays. Upcoming public-holiday dates used in the annual planning scrubber.
  • City flag source. Public domain, Srđan Marlović.
  • Maps, image licenses, and the full dataset registry are listed in site credits.

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