City of Bar
The climate in Bar is Mediterranean. The average winter temperature is 9.1 °C, while the average summer temperature is 20.7 °C. The city of Bar has almost 270 sunny days or 2500 sunny hours during the year, which makes it the sunniest city of the Mediterranean. The average rainfall is 1715 mm and the most frequent winds are the north and south wind.
The surface area of 128 km² of the Skadar Lake (total surface is 370 km²) belongs to the Municipality of Bar. The area around Bar abounds in Mediterranean vegetation. There are about 85000 olive trees and almost 40000 fruit trees in Bar. One olive tree near the Old town of Bar is more than 2000 years old. |
  
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Bar is a city situated in the southern region of the Montenegrin coast, at the foot of Mount Rumija (1600 m), at 42°6' northern latitude and 19°6' eastern longitude and an altitude of 4 m. It is 180 km far from the Strait of Otranto. The surface area of the municipality, with Bar as its center, is 505 km². According to the 2011 census, its population is 42,368.
Bar has more than 46 kilometers of coast, with 20 beaches that have a total of 9 kilometers in length. The maximum depth of the sea is 430 m and the average water temperature in July is 23.2 °C. The salinity is 38.2%, transparency 5 m and tide wave 30-48 cm.