Climate and average weather in Floreşti

In Floreşti, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late April to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Floreşti typically varies from -5°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -14°C or above 33°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Floreşti for warm-weather activities is from late April to early October.

Hottest
Jul
27°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jul
73 mm
Driest
Jan
28 mm
Rain / yr
561 mm
99 wet days
Daylight
8.2–15.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
120 m
47.9°N
Clearest
Aug
44% cloud

Floreşti is city in the northeast of Moldova.

Density
1,108/km²
people per km²
Founded
1588

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Floreşti weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late April to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Floreşti, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 12 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Floreşti is July, with an average high of 27°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 21 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Floreşti is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 0°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-5
Feb2-4
Mar80
Apr156
May2211
Jun2515
Jul2716
Aug2716
Sep2111
Oct146
Nov71
Dec1-3

How hot and cold Floreşti really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -10°C (around January 28), with roughly 148 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 11 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan00-9-5
Feb22-8-4
Mar88-40
Apr151536
May22221011
Jun25251515
Jul27271616
Aug27271616
Sep21211111
Oct141446
Nov77-21
Dec11-7-3

Average hourly temperature in Floreşti

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Floreşti weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -5°287.25.38.60.0
Feb / -4°296.74.19.90.0
Mar / 378.52.811.61.4
Apr15° / 449.20.513.44.8
May22° / 11°5810.7014.96.5
Jun25° / 15°7211.3015.76.6
Jul27° / 16°7310.5015.46.5
Aug27° / 16°537.2014.17.1
Sep21° / 11°588.2012.46.8
Oct14° / 427.10.210.64.5
Nov / 365.91.89.11.1
Dec / -3°326.948.30.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Floreşti gets about 561 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.1 months, from around Mar 30 to Jul 31, peaking in May at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 8.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 73 mm over about 11 wet days; January is the driest, with 28 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 28 · 40%Nov 8 · 18%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb247
Mar289
Apr309
May3411
Jun3811
Jul3311
Aug257
Sep278
Oct227
Nov206
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Floreşti collects about 561 mm of rain across 99 wet days — roughly 47 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 73 mm, while January is the driest at just 28 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec282937445872735358423632
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2875
Feb2974
Mar3793
Apr4491
May58110
Jun72110
Jul73110
Aug5370
Sep5880
Oct4270
Nov3662
Dec3274

Snow in Floreşti

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Floreşti averages about 19 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 27 to Apr 19 — about 5.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 17 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 79 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 25
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan517
Feb420
Mar311
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov210
Dec418

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Floreşti, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 20 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around October 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 22 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 19. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 80% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 3 · 68%Jan 9 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2080
Feb2476
Mar3367
Apr4060
May5050
Jun5248
Jul6238
Aug6634
Sep5149
Oct4258
Nov2674
Dec2179

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 13, brings about 15 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.67:584:34
Feb9.97:245:19
Mar11.66:296:04
Apr13.45:256:49
May14.94:357:31
Jun15.74:138:01
Jul15.44:297:56
Aug14.15:087:14
Sep12.45:516:11
Oct10.66:355:09
Nov9.17:224:22
Dec8.37:574:09

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Floreşti averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.3 months, from around Apr 19 to Oct 27. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 4 sunny days — about 76% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1415 daysJan 73 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May10Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul12Mixed
Aug15Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct8Mixed
Nov5Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Floreşti, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around May 30 to September 1. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 36% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 2 to May 29, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 27 · 100%Jul 27 · 61%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May871120
Jun5027203
Jul3233297
Aug4632184
Sep821630
Oct95410
Nov100000
Dec100000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Floreşti is steady company: average speeds sit near 11 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 19 · 12 km/hAug 2 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12calm
Mar12light breeze
Apr12calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov12calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Floreşti

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Floreşti throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early May, Floreşti is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Floreşti for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to early October, with a peak score in the third week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 20 · 7.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.5poor
Apr4.7fair
May6.5good
Jun6.6good
Jul6.5good
Aug7.1good
Sep6.8good
Oct4.5fair
Nov1.1poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Floreşti for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 10 · 7.5

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Floreşti, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 0°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Floreşti sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Floreşti by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Floreşti peaks around July 13 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 13UV 8Dec 18UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May5Moderate
Jun7Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Floreşti

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar1.50
Apr60
May60
Jun84
Jul84.5
Aug73
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Floreşti typically lasts about 252 days, from around March 16 to November 22 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 10 to October 19.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1650%Apr 1090%Oct 1990%Nov 2250%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1831
Feb2528
Mar5331
Apr938
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9113
Nov6130
Dec2731

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Floreşti banks about 1,442 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr31
May190
Jun297
Jul364
Aug349
Sep184
Oct27
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Floreşti receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.9 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 85% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 155.9 kWhDec 120.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.1Dim
Feb1.9Dim
Mar3.2Moderate
Apr4.6Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct2.2Moderate
Nov1.2Dim
Dec0.9Dim

Where is Floreşti?

Floreşti sits at 47.9°N, 28.3°E, 120 m above sea level, in Moldova. The nearest listed city is Soroca, 29 km away.

SorocaBălţiBilicenii VechiDrochiaRîbniţaOrheiMohyliv-PodilskyyEdineţ

Topography around Floreşti

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Floreşti.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Floreşti has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 115 m around an average of 123 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 298 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 416 m.

The land around Floreşti is covered by cropland (48%) and grassland (25%) within 3 km, cropland (69%) within 16 km, and cropland (60%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
115 m
16 km
298 m
80 km
416 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Soroca 29 km · Bălţi 31 km · Bilicenii Vechi 32 km · Drochia 39 km · Rîbniţa 55 km · Orhei 69 km · Mohyliv-Podilskyy 71 km · Edineţ 80 km

Moldova travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 43% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,622
2025
Happiness
5.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
76%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.5
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
7.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 531
Religion
Orthodox 90%other Christian 3%atheist 0%other 0%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Floreşti (47.8917°, 28.2934°, elevation 120 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).