According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Moldova is April to May and September to October. Plan 3–5 days.
Best months for Moldova
- Best months
- April to May and September to October
- How long to stay
- 3–5 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Moldova is best for
Explore vast underground wine cellars at Cricova and the historic cave monastery complex of Orheiul Vechi.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Moldova by month
Monthly averages around Chișinău; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −4 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| February | about −2 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| March | about 4 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| April best | about 10 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| May best | about 17 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| June | about 21 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| July | about 24 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| August | about 24 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| September best | about 18 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| October best | about 10 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| November | about 4 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| December | about −2 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Moldova
- Capital
- Chișinău
- Language
- Romanian
- Currency
- Moldovan Leu (MDL)
- Time
- UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 220 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +373
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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