Summit · Durmitor · 2,523 m
Bobotov Kuk
Our verdict
Durmitor’s best-known summit and the one most people mean when they say they climbed a mountain in Montenegro. The last section is a scramble on limestone with chains in places, and the view from the top covers the whole plateau and the Tara canyon behind it.
The honest part
It is very often called the highest point in Montenegro. It is not — Zla Kolata in Prokletije is twelve metres higher, and two other summits on that ridge are higher again. Bobotov Kuk is the highest point of the Durmitor massif, which is a different claim and the one worth making.
When to come
Late June to early October. The record at this elevation shows a 30 cm base on roughly a third of April days and it is usually gone by mid-May, but gullies hold snow much later.
- Summit day
- Views
- Day hike
Where these are
How far, and how much up
From the nearest place you can park, Bobotov Kuk is 3.74 km of walking and 952 m of climbing, starting at 1,749 m.
- Distance
- 3.74 km
- Ascent
- 952 m
- From
- 1,749 m
- To
- 2,463 m
Measured along OpenStreetMap’s own path network from the nearest node you can drive to, with elevations from the Copernicus DEM sampled at a hundred points. Ascent is the total climb including the dips, not the difference between the two ends. A 90 m model smooths short steep steps, so treat it as a floor.
No walking time, on purpose. Distance and ascent are measurable; a pace belongs to the walker. Every “four to five hours” on the web is somebody’s guess wearing a number’s clothes.
The way up also loses 238 m, which a net figure would hide.
When the snow lies
Bobotov Kuk is usually clear of a 30 cm base from May to Nov. Outside that window, plan for snow on the ground.
Across the record the ground came reliably under 5 cm around April 20 and went back under snow around November 28. Those are medians of eleven years, not a promise about this one.
| Month | Over 1 cm | Over 30 cm base | Mean depth | Daytime high |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 96% | 69% | 47 cm | -7.3 °C |
| Feb | 95% | 67% | 58 cm | -5.1 °C |
| Mar | 91% | 65% | 61 cm | -3.0 °C |
| Apr | 68% | 32% | 33 cm | 1.4 °C |
| May | 12% | 3% | 2 cm | 6.6 °C |
| Jun | — | — | — | 12.1 °C |
| Jul | — | — | — | 14.8 °C |
| Aug | — | — | — | 14.8 °C |
| Sep | 1% | — | — | 9.9 °C |
| Oct | 12% | — | 1 cm | 5.2 °C |
| Nov | 38% | 1% | 3 cm | 0.1 °C |
| Dec | 86% | 29% | 19 cm | -4.5 °C |
The winters vary more than any average suggests. Across 10 winters Bobotov Kuk carried a 30 cm base for a median of 75 days: 0 in 2019 and 145 in 2021. Eleven winters is a record, not a climate, and nothing here is a trend.
| Winter | Days over 30 cm | Deepest |
|---|---|---|
| 2015–16 | 39 | 63 cm |
| 2016–17 | 75 | 66 cm |
| 2017–18 | 131 | 140 cm |
| 2018–19 | 113 | 103 cm |
| 2019–20 | — | 25 cm |
| 2020–21 | 132 | 144 cm |
| 2021–22 | 145 | 113 cm |
| 2022–23 | 60 | 65 cm |
| 2023–24 | 3 | 32 cm |
| 2024–25 | 60 | 71 cm |
Temperatures are corrected to 2,463 m, the terrain height at the point we query; the summit is 2,523 m. Snow depth is not corrected — it is a grid cell about nine kilometres across, so read it as the massif rather than the summit.
That cell is shared with Durmitor, so the snow depths on those pages are these same numbers. The temperatures are not shared — those are corrected to each summit.
Reanalysis from ERA5-Land (Copernicus), served by Open-Meteo.
Bobotov Kuk, in facts
The mountain
| Summit | 2,523 mOpenStreetMap peak node, ele 2523 (Q671897) |
|---|---|
| Massif | Durmitor |
| Kind | Summit |
| Record height | 2,463 mThe elevation the temperature record is corrected to. The summit is 2,523 m. |
Getting up it
| Trailhead | Sedlo pass, or the longer approach from Žabljak by the lakes |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | Scrambling |
| Road | Sedlo is reached by a sealed road that closes in winter |
| Parking | Roadside |
| Lift | none |
| Bus | Not checked |
| Marked route | Yes |
Up there
| Hut | Sušica, planinarski dom, 6.8 km away |
|---|---|
| Water | Springs mapped within 4 km |
| Food | None |
| Toilets | No |
| Shelter | No |
| Mobile signal | No |
Hazards
- Scrambling with exposure near the summit
- No water on the route
- No mobile signal
Facts last checked against their sources on September 30, 2026.
Where these facts come from
- OpenStreetMap natural=spring and amenity=drinking_water nodes within 4 km for the water field
- OpenStreetMap tourism=alpine_hut and wilderness_hut nodes for the nearest mountain hut and its distance
- OpenStreetMap peak node for the elevation and position
- Open-Meteo ERA5-Land archive 2015–2025 for the snow and temperature record
