National park · Orjen and Lovćen · 1,749 m

Lovćen

Nacionalni park Lovćen

Our verdict

The black mountain the country is named after, and the one every visitor sees from the Kotor serpentines. Njegoš’s mausoleum sits on Jezerski Vrh at 1,657 m with a view that on a clear day takes in the whole coast and half of Albania; Štirovnik, a hundred metres higher, is the actual summit and almost nobody walks up it.

The honest part

The serpentine road from Kotor is spectacular and genuinely narrow, with a long drop and buses coming the other way. In winter both approach roads can close without much notice. The mausoleum is reached by a long stair climb from the car park, which is not obvious until you are there.

When to come

Open all year in principle; May to October for certain access. The roads close in heavy snow and the date is never announced in advance.

Views
You can drive it
Day hike
Families

Our full guide to Lovćen →

Where these are

How far, and how much up

No single route: a park’s coordinate is the middle of a boundary rather than somewhere anyone walks to. The routes are on its summits’ own pages.

How cold it gets

At 1,231 m, Lovćen averages a daily high of 3.0 °C in Jan and 23.8 °C in Jul. That is the part of the record we can stand behind here; see below for why there are no snow depths.

Why there are no snow depths here

The reanalysis puts Lovćen at 1,231 m with a coldest-month daily high of 3.0 °C, and then reports a deepest snow depth of 24 cm across 10 winters. Both cannot be true. Snow depth is not corrected for elevation the way temperature is — it is the value for a grid cell some nine kilometres across, and on this ridge that cell is mostly low ground beside a warm sea. So we publish the temperatures, which are sound, and no depths at all. Treat winter here as snowbound and check the station reading above.

Monthly snow and temperature record for Lovćen, 2015-01-01 to 2025-12-31
Month	Daytime high
Jan	3.0 °C
Feb	5.2 °C
Mar	7.5 °C
Apr	11.3 °C
May	15.1 °C
Jun	20.6 °C
Jul	23.8 °C
Aug	23.8 °C
Sep	18.6 °C
Oct	14.1 °C
Nov	9.2 °C
Dec	5.1 °C

Temperatures are corrected to 1,231 m, the terrain height at the point we query; the summit is 1,749 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.

Reanalysis from ERA5-Land (Copernicus), served by Open-Meteo.

Lovćen, in facts

The mountain

The mountain
Summit	1,749 mŠtirovnik, the park’s summit, OSM node (ele 1748); 1,749 m is the figure usually published
Massif	Orjen and Lovćen
Kind	National park
Record height	1,231 mThe elevation the temperature record is corrected to. The summit is 1,749 m.

Getting up it

Getting up it
Trailhead	The mausoleum car park on Jezerski Vrh, or Ivanova Korita for the walks
Difficulty	A walk
Road	Sealed from Cetinje and from Kotor by the serpentine road; both can close in snow
Parking	Paid
Bus	Not checked
Marked route	Yes

Up there

Up there
Hut	None mapped within 8 km
Water	Springs mapped within 4 km
Food	Restaurant
Toilets	Yes
Shelter	Not checked
Mobile signal	Not checked

The park

The park
Area	62.2 km²The commonly published figure. Lovćen is mapped in OpenStreetMap as boundary=protected_area rather than boundary=national_park, so it does not appear in a query for the country’s national parks — a tagging gap, not a missing park.
Entry	Not checked

Rules worth knowing

Drone and commercial filming require written permission from the park authority

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, searched country-wide for the nearest mountain hut
OpenStreetMap relation 13997675 for the boundary and the tagging note
Štirovnik and Jezerski Vrh elevations from OpenStreetMap peak nodes
Our Lovćen guide
Open-Meteo ERA5-Land archive 2015–2025 for the temperature record