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Has the climate in Bucharest changed?

Bucharest has warmed about 5.7°F since 1971.

About 1.0°F per decade, measured from Bucharest's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Bucharest's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Romania — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
12 fewer nights
1970s
109 / yr
Recent
97 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.9°F
1970s
51.2°F
Recent
55.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
26 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
38 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
about the same
1970s
106 / yr
Recent
108 / yr
Rainfall pattern about the same

Bucharest's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

48°50°52°54°56°58°1971: 52.0°F1972: 52.3°F1973: 50.5°F1974: 51.1°F1975: 52.6°F1976: 50.1°F1977: 52.0°F1978: 50.2°F1979: 51.5°F1980: 49.6°F1981: 51.6°F1982: 51.5°F1983: 52.2°F1984: 51.1°F1985: 49.7°F1986: 51.8°F1987: 50.2°F1988: 51.2°F1989: 53.0°F1990: 53.0°F1991: 50.1°F1992: 51.9°F1993: 50.5°F1994: 54.2°F1995: 51.4°F1996: 50.6°F1997: 50.4°F1998: 51.7°F1999: 53.2°F2000: 53.7°F2001: 52.4°F2002: 52.9°F2003: 52.3°F2004: 52.6°F2005: 52.2°F2006: 53.4°F2007: 55.9°F2008: 54.7°F2009: 54.7°F2010: 53.6°F2011: 52.9°F2012: 54.7°F2013: 54.6°F2014: 54.1°F2015: 55.4°F2016: 54.6°F2017: 54.5°F2018: 55.1°F2019: 56.0°F2020: 56.2°F2021: 54.0°F2022: 56.1°F2023: 57.5°F2024: 57.6°F2025: 55.6°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 13 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +0.4°F+0.4JFebruary: +1.3°F+1.3FMarch: +1.3°F+1.3MApril: +0.3°F+0.3AMay: +0.4°F+0.4MJune: +1.1°F+1.1JJuly: +1.6°F+1.6JAugust: +2.3°F+2.3ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +2.0°F+2.0NDecember: +0.0°F+0.0D

August has warmed the most — about 2.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Bucuresti-baneasa, a weather station, about 10 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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