Climate and average weather in Baia Sprie

In Baia Sprie, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: early June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Baia Sprie typically varies from -6°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 30°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Baia Sprie for warm-weather activities is from early June to late September.

Hottest
Aug
24°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Jun
122 mm
Driest
Feb
70 mm
Rain / yr
1116 mm
155 wet days
Daylight
8.2–15.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
350 m
47.7°N
Clearest
Aug
48% cloud

Baia Sprie is locality in Maramureș County, Romania.

Founded
1329

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

Baia Sprie 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 early June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Baia Sprie, 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 13 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Baia Sprie is August, with an average high of 24°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 26 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Baia Sprie is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of -0°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-6
Feb2-5
Mar8-1
Apr144
May199
Jun2212
Jul2413
Aug2413
Sep199
Oct145
Nov71
Dec1-4

How hot and cold Baia Sprie 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 27), with roughly 152 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 4 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan00-9-6
Feb22-8-5
Mar88-4-1
Apr141424
May191979
Jun22221212
Jul24241313
Aug24241313
Sep191989
Oct141435
Nov77-21
Dec11-7-4

Average hourly temperature in Baia Sprie

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 August afternoons, near 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Baia Sprie 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-0° / -6°7211.89.88.70.0
Feb / -5°7011.68.49.90.0
Mar / -1°8512.74.811.61.2
Apr14° / 8413.21.413.33.9
May19° / 11816.1014.95.3
Jun22° / 12°12216015.75.8
Jul24° / 13°12215.8015.46.1
Aug24° / 13°9112.1014.16.7
Sep19° / 9611.2012.45.9
Oct14° / 9411.20.710.63.8
Nov / 76114.49.11.0
Dec / -4°8512.28.48.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Baia Sprie gets about 1116 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.2 months, from around Apr 2 to Aug 7, peaking in May at about 55% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 7.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 122 mm over about 16 wet days; February is the driest, with 70 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 23 · 55%Oct 7 · 34%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3812
Feb4212
Mar4013
Apr4513
May5116
Jun5316
Jul5116
Aug4012
Sep3711
Oct3611
Nov3711
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Baia Sprie collects about 1116 mm of rain across 155 wet days — roughly 93 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 122 mm, while February is the driest at just 70 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec727085841181221229196947685
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan721210
Feb70128
Mar85135
Apr84131
May118160
Jun122160
Jul122160
Aug91120
Sep96110
Oct94111
Nov76114
Dec85128

Snow in Baia Sprie

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.

Baia Sprie averages about 38 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 15 to Apr 27 — about 6.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 49 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 191 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1049
Feb844
Mar523
Apr19
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct15
Nov421
Dec841

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Baia Sprie, 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 18 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 16. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 64% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 3 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around April 17. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 74% 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 16 · 66%Dec 16 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3070
Feb2773
Mar3664
Apr4357
May4555
Jun4951
Jul5743
Aug6436
Sep4852
Oct4357
Nov3565
Dec2674

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 15, brings about 15 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan8.78:164:53
Feb9.97:425:38
Mar11.66:486:22
Apr13.35:447:07
May14.94:547:49
Jun15.74:338:18
Jul15.44:488:14
Aug14.15:267:32
Sep12.46:096:30
Oct10.66:535:28
Nov9.17:404:41
Dec8.38:144:28

Sunny days

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

Baia Sprie averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Jun 25 to Nov 7. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 5 sunny days — about 61% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1314 daysDec 175 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun8Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep9Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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 Baia Sprie, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around June 5 to September 2. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 34% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 3 to June 4, 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 28 · 100%Jul 28 · 58%humiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May891000
Jun4834171
Jul2740312
Aug3341242
Sep811720
Oct98200
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 Baia Sprie is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 20 · 8 km/hAug 1 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Baia Sprie

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Baia Sprie 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 Baia Sprie for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 19 · 6.9

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
Mar1.2poor
Apr3.9fair
May5.3fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.1good
Aug6.7good
Sep5.9good
Oct3.8fair
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 Baia Sprie for hot-weather activities is from early July to late August, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 13 · 6.0

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 Baia Sprie, 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 August (highs near 24°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, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Baia Sprie sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 13°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Baia Sprie 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 Baia Sprie peaks around July 14 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 8Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr7High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Baia Sprie

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
Apr6.51.5
May6.50
Jun84
Jul84.5
Aug7.53.5
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Baia Sprie typically lasts about 244 days, from around March 23 to November 21 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 19 to October 12.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2350%Apr 1990%Oct 1290%Nov 2150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1731
Feb2128
Mar4331
Apr8620
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep990
Oct8620
Nov5730
Dec2431

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. Baia Sprie banks about 1,010 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr12
May117
Jun213
Jul268
Aug265
Sep123
Oct11
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.

Baia Sprie receives about 3.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.9 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.9 kWh/m² — roughly 84% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 145.8 kWhDec 190.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.2Dim
Feb2.0Dim
Mar3.3Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.6Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct2.2Moderate
Nov1.3Dim
Dec0.9Dim

Where is Baia Sprie?

Baia Sprie sits at 47.7°N, 23.7°E, 350 m above sea level, in Romania. The nearest listed city is Baia Mare, 9.0 km away.

Vişeu de SusRakhivDejKhustSatu MareZalău

Topography around Baia Sprie

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Baia Sprie has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 572 m around an average of 453 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,265 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,159 m.

The land around Baia Sprie is covered by trees (71%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, trees (67%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and trees (57%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
572 m
16 km
1,265 m
80 km
2,159 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Baia Mare 9.0 km · Sighetu Marmaţiei 33 km · Vişeu de Sus 55 km · Rakhiv 58 km · Dej 58 km · Khust 64 km · Satu Mare 64 km · Zalău 71 km

Romania travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 44% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$22,538
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
82%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
10.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 605
Religion
Romanian Orthodox 85%other 5%Roman Catholic 5%Reformed 3%

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 Baia Sprie (47.6619°, 23.6922°, elevation 350 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).