Climate averages 1991–2020
Piteşti weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Piteşti: daytime highs average 3.1°C and nights cool to about -4.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 13 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Râmnicu Vâlcea (48 km away). In January its highs average 4.2°C, 1.1°C warmer than Piteşti, with 46 mm of rain.
Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Piteşti ranks 12th of 27 for the warmest January highs and joint 15th of 27 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 27 cities is 2.6°C; Piteşti is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 5.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 40 mm to 37 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Râmnicu Vâlcea in JanuaryRomania · 48 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low -4.3°C · 46 mm rain
- Ploieşti in JanuaryRomania · 91 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -4.7°C · 40 mm rain
- Craiova in JanuaryRomania · 103 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -3.7°C · 38 mm rain
- Braşov in JanuaryRomania · 106 kmHigh 1.9°C · Low -5.9°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Bucharest in JanuaryRomania · 109 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -4.6°C · 39 mm rain
- Sibiu in JanuaryRomania · 120 kmHigh 2.4°C · Low -5.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Târgu Jiu in JanuaryRomania · 127 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -4.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Ruse in JanuaryBulgaria · 141 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -3.2°C · 44 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.