Travel Alert Status
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
Time Difference
UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Travel Climate
Mediterranean climate, hot dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfalls inland
Languages
Serbian (Ijekavian dialect - official)
Ethnic Groups
Montenegrin 43%, Serbian 32%, Bosniak 8%, Albanian 5%, other (Muslims, Croats, Roma) 12%
National Holiday
Statehood Day, 13 July (1878, the day the Berlin Congress recognized Montenegro as the 27th independent state in the world, and 1941, the day the Montenegrins staged an uprising against fascist occupiers and sided with the partisan communist movement)
Geographic Coordinates
42 30 N, 19 18 E
Location
Southeastern Europe, between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia
Airports
5