Climate averages 1991–2020
Timişoara weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Timişoara: daytime highs average 4.1°C and nights cool to about -2.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 07 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Arad (48 km away). In January its highs average 3.8°C, about as warm as Timişoara, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Timişoara ranks joint 3rd of 27 for the warmest January highs and 17th of 27 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 27 cities is 2.6°C; Timişoara is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 6.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 42 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
Timişoara climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 4.1°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 41 | 8.8 | 9.19 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 42 | 9.1 | 10.310 h |
| March | 11.6°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 47 | 9.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 61 | 10.1 | 13.513 h |
| May | 22.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 69 | 12.4 | 14.915 h |
| June | 25.8°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 82 | 11.8 | 15.616 h |
| July | 27.8°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 69 | 10.1 | 15.315 h |
| August | 28.1°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 60 | 8.1 | 14.114 h |
| September | 22.8°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 58 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.2°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 52 | 7.7 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 49 | 8.4 | 9.510 h |
| December | 4.9°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 52 | 9.5 | 8.89 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
- Arad in JanuaryRomania · 48 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -2.5°C · 39 mm rain
- Reşiţa in JanuaryRomania · 72 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -3.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Zrenjanin in JanuarySerbia · 78 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -2.2°C · 39 mm rain
- Szeged in JanuaryHungary · 100 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -2.4°C · 34 mm rain
- Pančevo in JanuarySerbia · 108 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.2°C · 45 mm rain
- Belgrade in JanuarySerbia · 121 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Novi Sad in JanuarySerbia · 122 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -2.2°C · 42 mm rain
- Novi Beograd in JanuarySerbia · 123 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -2.1°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 Timişoara) is explained once on the Timişoara year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.