Burgas (Sunny Beach) weather by month
The best time to visit Burgas (Sunny Beach) is July to September — 95/100 in July, 30°C and 5 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (92/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 44/100 — cold, a little rain, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Bulgaria →
Best season: June to August (92/100 on average) · worst January (44/100)
- Days
- 30°C
- Nights
- 18°C
- Wet days
- 5
- Sun
- 13.3 h
- Humidity
- 70%
- Daylight
- 15 h

Burgas, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Burgas is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Burgas through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- June
- Beach season opens1 Jun – 20 Sep (usually)Season
- Atanasovsko salt harvest15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Season
- July
- Sand sculpture festival1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)Festival
- Burgas and the Sea25 Jul – 10 Aug (usually)Festival
- August
- Via Pontica autumn migration15 Aug – 31 Oct (usually)Nature
- October
- Coast off-season10 Oct – 15 May (usually)Season
Crowds in Burgas in July
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusyBeach season opens, school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Burgas
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
practical
We ended up spending a full day and a half just lazing around Burgas, strolling the five-kilometer Sea Garden and swimming in waves that were noticeably higher than the calmer beaches further south. The Archaeological Museum was a good rainy-afternoon detour, with Thracian and Roman artifacts we hadn't expected from a beach town. Compared to smaller Bulgarian coastal towns we'd passed through, Burgas had far more English speakers and working card machines, which made day-to-day logistics easier. We picked June specifically for the quieter beaches and mild weather before the peak summer crowds arrived.
Traveller notes on Burgas
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe January and February as Bulgaria's coldest months, cold enough that some villages can become snowed in, with roughly six weeks of genuine winter conditions before things start easing around mid-March. Posters describing winter travel to Bulgaria more broadly call it cold, gray and often described as depressing, though some visitors specifically seek out this stretch for the cold and snow itself. Posters discussing the wider Burgas Province coastal region suggest conditions here run somewhat less severe than Bulgaria's mountainous interior, given the Black Sea's moderating coastal influence, even without much January-specific detail available. Posters generally rate January as cold and quiet for Burgas, genuinely milder than inland Bulgaria but still solidly within the country's harsh winter stretch.
Forum posters describe July as genuinely hot, typically high-20s to mid-30sC with occasional spikes over 40C reported, and consistently name July-August as the warmest, busiest stretch of the season along this stretch of Black Sea coast. Sea temperatures stay comfortably warm (mid-20sC), and a cooling sea breeze helps offset the daytime heat. Posters note the region can see short, sharp thunderstorms earlier in late spring (May-June), but by July that risk has largely passed, replaced by consistently sunny, dry conditions. Practical advice: confirm air conditioning before booking, since not every property has it, and expect resort areas to be at their most crowded this month.
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