Weather in Romania

Description:

Romania has a temperate continental climate of transition, specific for central Europe, with four distinct seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Local climatic differences are due more to altitude and latitude.

Medium annual temperatures go around 11 ° C in the South and in northern Romania are more than 8 ° C, variation explained by the country's latitude and relief distribution. Average annual maximum temperature varies between 22 ° C and 24 ° C in summer, respective between -3 ° C and -5 ° C during winter. Extreme temperatures were recorded in Romania -38.5 ° C, minimum, from Bod, Brasov Depression, and a maximum of +44.5 ° C at Ion Sion Bărăgan.

Summer is a warm season, which lasts from late May to mid September in the South Plains and West. In southern Romania there are over 40 days "tropical" (with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius) and 90 days of summer (with temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees Celsius). The absolute maximum temperature was of 44.5 degrees Celsius, and it was recorded at Ion Sion, near Braila, on August 10, 1951. Often, summer storms occur with large amounts of precipitation.
Note that in mountain areas of North and Center temperate summer is a season, with little rain or summer days, and cool nights. 

Autumn is a short season, transitional, with long periods of drought alternating with periods of rain.

Winter is a cold season, the cold air masses coming from the East bring temperatures down to -20 degrees Celsius or below (the record is -38.5 degrees Celsius, the Bod, near Brasov, registered on 25 January 1942). Snow is not abundant compared with other European countries although the Christmas is magnificent. In South and West in particular, snow melts and restore several times during the winter. 

Spring is another season of transition, relatively short. Temperature rises rapidlymaking frosts disappear  in April.
The average annual temperature varies from 11 degrees Celsius in the Danube meadow to 6 degrees Celsius in Harghita. The average temperature in July ranges from 26 degrees Celsius and 18 degrees Celsius all by region. In January, the temperature ranges from 0 ° C (in Baile Herculane or Mangalia) to -6 degrees Celsius (in depression).