Lightning strikes in Serbia

The detection network has located 3,700 lightning strikes in Serbia since the archive began, including 221 in the last 7 days. That is 0.04% of all detected strikes worldwide, ranking Serbia #39 of 143 countries with recorded lightning. Serbia is counted under Europe in the continent totals.

Daily strikes, last 7 days

Day (UTC)	Detected strikes
2026-08-13	16
2026-08-12	15
2026-08-09	58
2026-08-08	132
2026-08-07	22
2026-08-06	3,447
2026-08-02	10

Strikes by state or province

Regions follow Natural Earth admin-1 boundaries. "Unassigned" counts strikes inside Serbia's territory but outside every region polygon, mostly coastal water and lakes.

#	State / province	Strikes	Last 7 days	Share
1	South Bačka	742	0	20.1%
2	Central Banat	466	0	12.6%
3	South Banat	370	0	10.0%
4	Podunavlje	236	0	6.4%
5	Bor	224	1	6.1%
6	Belgrade	189	8	5.1%
7	West Bačka	188	0	5.1%
8	North Bačka	184	0	5.0%
9	Braničevo	162	0	4.4%
10	Zlatibor	162	0	4.4%
11	North Banat	134	0	3.6%
12	Pirot	106	106	2.9%
13	Šumadija	89	6	2.4%
14	Raška	80	6	2.2%
15	Pomoravski	64	1	1.7%
16	Moravica	57	0	1.5%
17	Pčinja	44	44	1.2%
18	Jablanica	30	14	0.8%
19	Srem	26	0	0.7%
20	Mehedinți	26	0	0.7%
21	Unassigned	22	0	0.6%
22	Timiș	21	0	0.6%
23	Zaječar	21	18	0.6%
24	Kolubara	18	0	0.5%
25	Vidin	9	0	0.2%
26	Pernik	8	8	0.2%
27	Kyustendil	6	6	0.2%
28	Toplica	5	0	0.1%
29	Rasina	2	0	0.1%
30	Bijelo Polje	2	0	0.1%
31	Nišava	2	2	0.1%
32	Caraș-Severin	2	0	0.1%
33	Mačva	1	0	0.0%
34	Kriva Palanka	1	1	0.0%
35	Csongrád-Csanád	1	0	0.0%

These are detected strikes, and detection coverage differs by region; the data hub explains the method and its limits. For the climatological picture, see which countries get the most lightning.

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