Ideal weather days in Bucharest
The best time to visit Bucharest for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 23 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Bucharest's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May, September and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Bucharest, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold150
- Too hot58
- Too wet54
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Bucharest averaged 139 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Romania, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and September (up to 18 a month, 65 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May and October (up to 19 a month, 82 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 150 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 58 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Bucharest weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8 °C 46 °F | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 9 °C 47 °F | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 59 °F | 7 | 0 | 9 | 9 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 67 °F | 9 | 0 | 4 | 15 of 30 |
| May | 24 °C 74 °F | 9 | 0 | 4 | 23 of 31 |
| June | 33 °C 91 °F | 4 | 0 | 8 | 17 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 95 °F | 6 | 0 | 10 | 7 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 4 | 0 | 7 | 8 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 4 | 0 | 12 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 76 °F | 3 | 0 | 15 | 26 of 31 |
| November | 11 °C 51 °F | 8 | 0 | 9 | 4 of 30 |
| December | 8 °C 46 °F | 10 | 0 | 6 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 70 | 0 | 99 | 139 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 144 warm, dry days
- 2024 130 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Bucharest for good weather?
The best time to visit Bucharest for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 23 to 26 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and September (up to 18 a month, 65 a year). Counted from measured days at Bucuresti Filaret station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Bucharest?
On average 70 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (10 rain days), the driest October (3).
How many sunny days does Bucharest get a year?
About 99 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in October (15).
How warm does Bucharest get?
The median daily high ranged from 8 °C (46 °F) in December to 35 °C (95 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Sofia300 km, Bulgaria144 days
- Istanbul450 km, Türkiye128 days
- Belgrade450 km, Serbia139 days
- Thessaloniki490 km, Greece167 days
Where is the best climate in Romania?
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Source: Bucuresti Filaret weather station (15422099999), 1 km from the centre of Bucharest, 84 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.