Climate and average weather in Caransebeş

In Caransebeş, the summers are warm, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid June to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Caransebeş typically varies from -4°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -12°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 Caransebeş for warm-weather activities is from mid June to early October.

Hottest
Aug
25°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Jun
130 mm
Driest
Feb
66 mm
Rain / yr
1082 mm
151 wet days
Daylight
8.5–15.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
202 m
45.4°N
Clearest
Aug
41% cloud

Caransebeş is locality in Caraș-Severin County, Romania.

Founded
1289

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

Caransebeş 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 mid June to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 24 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Caransebeş is August, with an average high of 25°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 26 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Caransebeş is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 9°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)
Jan2-4
Feb4-3
Mar91
Apr155
May199
Jun2312
Jul2514
Aug2514
Sep2010
Oct156
Nov92
Dec3-2

How hot and cold Caransebeş 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 -7°C (around January 27), with roughly 135 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22-7-4
Feb44-6-3
Mar99-21
Apr151535
May191989
Jun23231212
Jul24251414
Aug25251414
Sep20201010
Oct151546
Nov9902
Dec33-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Caransebeş

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Caransebeş 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 / -4°6912.198.90.0
Feb / -3°6611.27.810.10.1
Mar / 7712.54.311.61.8
Apr15° / 102141.513.24.0
May19° / 11616.8014.75.2
Jun23° / 12°13015.5015.46.0
Jul25° / 14°11514.6015.16.5
Aug25° / 14°9511.1013.97.0
Sep20° / 10°9310.6012.36.4
Oct15° / 759.50.510.74.7
Nov / 6710.63.49.31.9
Dec / -2°7612.37.88.60.0

Chance of rain

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

Caransebeş gets about 1082 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 4.1 months, from around Mar 31 to Aug 3, peaking in May at about 58% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 6.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 130 mm over about 16 wet days; February is the driest, with 66 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 27 · 58%Oct 6 · 31%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3812
Feb4111
Mar4013
Apr4714
May5417
Jun5216
Jul4715
Aug3711
Sep3511
Oct3110
Nov3511
Dec4012

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Caransebeş collects about 1082 mm of rain across 151 wet days — roughly 90 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 130 mm, while February is the driest at just 66 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6966771021161301159593756776
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan69129
Feb66118
Mar77134
Apr102142
May116170
Jun130160
Jul115150
Aug95110
Sep93110
Oct75101
Nov67113
Dec76128

Snow in Caransebeş

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.

Caransebeş averages about 34 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 16 to Apr 27 — about 6.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 42 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 179 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan942
Feb848
Mar420
Apr29
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct14
Nov318
Dec838

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Caransebeş, 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 May 31 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 16. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 71% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 30 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around April 23. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% 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 14 · 74%Feb 21 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3466
Mar3862
Apr4456
May4654
Jun5842
Jul6634
Aug7129
Sep5842
Oct4951
Nov4258
Dec3763

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 16, brings about 15 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 8 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 7 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.98:145:07
Feb10.17:435:48
Mar11.66:536:29
Apr13.25:537:10
May14.75:077:48
Jun15.44:488:15
Jul15.15:028:11
Aug13.95:377:33
Sep12.36:166:35
Oct10.76:555:37
Nov9.37:394:54
Dec8.68:114:44

Sunny days

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

Caransebeş averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Jun 9 to Nov 7. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 7 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1617 daysFeb 186 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May8Gloomy
Jun11Mixed
Jul14Mixed
Aug17Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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 Caransebeş, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around June 4 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 3, 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 31 · 55%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May871210
Jun4241161
Jul2640322
Aug2746252
Sep791920
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 Caransebeş is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 3 · 8 km/hAug 1 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Caransebeş

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 20 · 7.1

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr4.0fair
May5.2fair
Jun6.0good
Jul6.5good
Aug7.0good
Sep6.4good
Oct4.7fair
Nov1.9poor
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 Caransebeş for hot-weather activities is from late June to late August, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 14 · 6.4

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 Caransebeş, 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 25°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Caransebeş sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Caransebeş 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 Caransebeş peaks around July 14 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 14UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr8Very high
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Caransebeş

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 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
Mar3.50
Apr73.5
May72
Jun8.54.5
Jul85
Aug7.53.5
Sep5.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Caransebeş typically lasts about 263 days, from around March 11 to November 28 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 15 to October 17.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1150%Apr 1590%Oct 1790%Nov 2850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2331
Feb3028
Mar5631
Apr9016
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9016
Nov6730
Dec3331

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. Caransebeş banks about 1,122 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr18
May129
Jun224
Jul282
Aug286
Sep154
Oct29
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.

Caransebeş receives about 3.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.2 kWh/m² — roughly 80% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 296.0 kWhDec 211.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.4Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.2Dim

Where is Caransebeş?

Caransebeş sits at 45.4°N, 22.2°E, 202 m above sea level, in Romania. The nearest listed city is Reşiţa, 29 km away.

HunedoaraDevaVršacLupeniVulcan

Topography around Caransebeş

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Caransebeş has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 217 m around an average of 223 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,005 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,397 m.

The land around Caransebeş is covered by grassland (42%) and trees (36%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and grassland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (63%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
217 m
16 km
1,005 m
80 km
2,397 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Reşiţa 29 km · Lugoj 39 km · Bocşa 40 km · Hunedoara 65 km · Deva 74 km · Vršac 79 km · Lupeni 80 km · Vulcan 82 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 Caransebeş (45.4167°, 22.2167°, elevation 202 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).