Climate averages 1991–2020
Piteşti weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Piteşti: daytime highs average 25.8°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 04 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Râmnicu Vâlcea (48 km away). In August its highs average 26.3°C, 0.5°C warmer than Piteşti, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Piteşti ranks joint 18th of 27 for the warmest August highs and 21st of 27 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 27 cities is 26.5°C; Piteşti is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.0°C to 20.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 72 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Piteşti climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 40 | 7.0 | 9.29 h |
| February | 5.3°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 37 | 6.6 | 10.410 h |
| March | 9.8°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 50 | 9.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 67 | 10.5 | 13.513 h |
| May | 20.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 88 | 13.7 | 14.815 h |
| June | 23.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 112 | 13.3 | 15.516 h |
| July | 25.8°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 93 | 11.4 | 15.215 h |
| August, selected | 25.8°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 75 | 9.0 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.8°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 72 | 7.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 61 | 7.7 | 11.011 h |
| November | 9.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 48 | 7.5 | 9.610 h |
| December | 4.1°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 49 | 7.5 | 8.99 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Râmnicu Vâlcea in AugustRomania · 48 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.0°C · 74 mm rain
- Ploieşti in AugustRomania · 91 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 16.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Craiova in AugustRomania · 103 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 19.0°C · 42 mm rain
- Braşov in AugustRomania · 106 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 15.1°C · 74 mm rain
- Bucharest in AugustRomania · 109 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 18.4°C · 49 mm rain
- Sibiu in AugustRomania · 120 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 14.9°C · 111 mm rain
- Târgu Jiu in AugustRomania · 127 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 52 mm rain
- Ruse in AugustBulgaria · 141 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 19.0°C · 48 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Piteşti) is explained once on the Piteşti year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.