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Has the climate in Craiova changed?

Craiova has warmed about 4.8°F since 1971.

About 0.9°F per decade, measured from Craiova'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? Craiova'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
27 fewer nights
1970s
103 / yr
Recent
76 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+3.2°F
1970s
51.1°F
Recent
54.2°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
25 more days
1970s
12 / yr
Recent
37 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
8 fewer days
1970s
116 / yr
Recent
108 / yr
Drier on average

Craiova's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

48°50°52°54°56°58°1971: 52.2°F1972: 51.6°F1973: 50.2°F1974: 51.0°F1975: 51.9°F1976: 49.4°F1977: 51.2°F1978: 49.5°F1979: 50.6°F1980: 49.1°F1981: 51.3°F1982: 51.6°F1983: 52.3°F1984: 52.6°F1985: 50.1°F1986: 51.3°F1987: 51.5°F1988: 52.1°F1989: 52.7°F1990: 53.5°F1991: 50.6°F1992: 53.1°F1993: 52.1°F1994: 54.6°F1995: 51.5°F1996: 51.2°F1997: 50.6°F1998: 52.1°F1999: 53.8°F2000: 55.0°F2001: 53.6°F2002: 54.0°F2003: 52.5°F2004: 52.7°F2005: 52.0°F2006: 52.9°F2007: 54.6°F2008: 53.4°F2009: 53.6°F2010: 52.4°F2011: 52.0°F2012: 53.9°F2013: 53.5°F2014: 52.8°F2015: 54.5°F2016: 53.8°F2017: 54.3°F2018: 54.0°F2019: 55.4°F2020: 54.9°F2021: 53.8°F2022: 55.2°F2023: 56.1°F2024: 57.3°F2025: 55.4°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 12 fewer freezing nights a year and about 12 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°+3.0°January: +0.9°F+0.9JFebruary: +1.6°F+1.6FMarch: +1.9°F+1.9MApril: +1.3°F+1.3AMay: +1.1°F+1.1MJune: +1.9°F+1.9JJuly: +2.1°F+2.1JAugust: +2.8°F+2.8ASeptember: +1.1°F+1.1SOctober: +1.2°F+1.2ONovember: +2.4°F+2.4NDecember: +0.2°F+0.2D

August has warmed the most — about 2.8°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 Craiova, a weather station, about 11 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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