Climate averages 1991–2020

Piteşti weather
in May.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 20.2°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 9.7°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 88 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Piteşti · average highYear overview

May is a mild month in Piteşti: daytime highs average 20.2°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 48 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Râmnicu Vâlcea (48 km away). In May its highs average 20.7°C, 0.6°C warmer than Piteşti, with 95 mm of rain.

Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Piteşti ranks 19th of 27 for the warmest May highs and 19th of 27 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 27 cities is 20.8°C; Piteşti is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 88 mm to 112 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Piteşti, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.1°C-4.8°C-4.8°C407.09.29 h
February 5.3°C-3.6°C-3.6°C376.610.410 h
March 9.8°C-0.3°C-0.3°C509.011.912 h
April 15.3°C4.6°C4.6°C6710.513.513 h
May, selected 20.2°C9.7°C9.7°C8813.714.815 h
June 23.8°C13.6°C13.6°C11213.315.516 h
July 25.8°C15.6°C15.6°C9311.415.215 h
August 25.8°C15.7°C15.7°C759.014.114 h
September 20.8°C11.3°C11.3°C727.512.613 h
October 15.1°C6.3°C6.3°C617.711.011 h
November 9.0°C1.5°C1.5°C487.59.610 h
December 4.1°C-2.9°C-2.9°C497.58.99 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.

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May in nearby cities

Distance from Piteşti

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 limits

How 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.