The city of Bitola is located in the extreme southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia, at the foot of the Baba mountain with the peak Pelister (2601 m) right next to the Greek border, which is 13 km away. Bitola is surrounded to the north by four connected hills, with a height of 640 to 890 m, called Bair, which are part of the Oblakovsko-snegovska mountain range (1430 m).
From the south, the city is enclosed by the Tumbe Kafe hill, with a height of 744 meters, which is a branch of the higher mountain site Neolica, which in turn is part of the vast Baba Planina.
To the east, Bitola is widely open to the valley floor of Pelagonia, and to the west, to the fluvioglacial deposits of the Dragor river, the wide Djavato valley and the high Pelister. The terrain on which Bitola lies slopes from 715 to 585 meters, from west to east, i.e. from Pelister and Baba Planina to the Pelagonia Valley, from 710 to 590 meters, giving the city an average altitude of 650 meters. These differences in elevation significantly affect the appearance of the city and the structure of the urban landscape.
On the one hand, the city is located on a flat terrain, and on the other hand on hilly land and alluvial material. Bitola is located in a zone where two different agricultural units touch, an agricultural-horticultural zone to the east, northeast and southeast and an orchard-horticultural and livestock zone to the west and southwest.
The city of Bitola extends along the following coordinates: from 21o 18’20” to 21o 22’11” east of the Greenwich Meridian (GRM) and from 41o 00’00” to 41o 03’20” north of the Equator (NEM). Administratively, the city of Bitola is the seat of the Municipality of Bitola, but also the main regional center for the southwestern region of the Republic of Macedonia.