According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Romania is April to May and September to October. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Romania
- Best months
- April to May and September to October
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Romania is best for
Transylvanian medieval towns, fairy-tale castles, Carpathian hiking trails, and dramatic mountain drives like the Transfăgărășan.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Romania by month
Monthly averages around Bucharest; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −2 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| February | about 1 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| March | about 6 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| April best | about 12 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| May best | about 18 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| June | about 22 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| July | about 25 °C | some rain (66 mm) |
| August | about 25 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| September best | about 19 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| October best | about 12 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| November | about 6 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | some rain (48 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 Romania
- Capital
- Bucharest
- Language
- Romanian
- Currency
- Romanian Leu (RON)
- Time
- UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +40
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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