Climate and average weather in Lugoj

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

Best: late April to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lugoj typically varies from -2°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 33°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 Lugoj for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-2°
Wettest
Jun
92 mm
Driest
Feb
49 mm
Rain / yr
765 mm
124 wet days
Daylight
8.5–15.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
122 m
45.7°N
Clearest
Aug
39% cloud

Lugoj is locality in Timiș County, Romania.

Founded
1334

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

Lugoj 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 21 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Lugoj is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 25 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Lugoj is January, with an average low of -2°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-2
Feb6-1
Mar112
Apr176
May2111
Jun2514
Jul2715
Aug2715
Sep2212
Oct177
Nov113
Dec4-1

How hot and cold Lugoj 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 -6°C (around January 29), with roughly 121 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)
Jan44-5-2
Feb66-4-1
Mar1111-12
Apr171756
May21211011
Jun25251414
Jul27271515
Aug27271515
Sep22221112
Oct171767
Nov101113
Dec44-4-1

Average hourly temperature in Lugoj

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -2°C.

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

Lugoj 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 / -2°50105.58.90.0
Feb / -1°499.8510.10.5
Mar11° / 5610.42.411.62.8
Apr17° / 7211.40.313.35.2
May21° / 11°7513.5014.76.1
Jun25° / 14°9213.2015.46.4
Jul27° / 15°7410.7015.16.6
Aug27° / 15°658.6013.97.0
Sep22° / 12°668.9012.37.0
Oct17° / 567.70.110.75.6
Nov11° / 519.11.79.32.5
Dec / -1°5810.44.48.60.1

Chance of rain

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

Lugoj gets about 765 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 3.7 months, from around Apr 2 to Jul 23, peaking in May at about 45% 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 92 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 49 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 27 · 45%Oct 6 · 25%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb3610
Mar3310
Apr3811
May4314
Jun4313
Jul3511
Aug289
Sep299
Oct268
Nov319
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lugoj collects about 765 mm of rain across 124 wet days — roughly 64 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 92 mm, while February is the driest at just 49 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec504956727592746566565158
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan50106
Feb49105
Mar56102
Apr72110
May75140
Jun92130
Jul74110
Aug6590
Sep6690
Oct5680
Nov5192
Dec58104

Snow in Lugoj

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.

Lugoj averages about 19 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 3 to Apr 15 — about 5.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 21 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 86 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 28
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan621
Feb526
Mar28
Apr03
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov26
Dec421

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lugoj, 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 24 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around October 12. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 73% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 13 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around April 21. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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 · 76%Jan 24 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3367
Mar3862
Apr4555
May4852
Jun5941
Jul6832
Aug7327
Sep5842
Oct4852
Nov4060
Dec3367

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan8.98:165:08
Feb10.17:455:49
Mar11.66:546:30
Apr13.35:547:11
May14.75:077:50
Jun15.44:488:17
Jul15.15:038:13
Aug13.95:387:35
Sep12.36:176:36
Oct10.76:575:38
Nov9.37:414:55
Dec8.68:134:44

Sunny days

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

Lugoj 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 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around Jun 4 to Nov 4. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is February, down near 6 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1518 daysFeb 146 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul15Mixed
Aug17Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec7Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around May 31 to September 7. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 46% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 8 to May 30, 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 18 · 100%Aug 1 · 37%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May752230
Jun2937294
Jul16333812
Aug2034397
Sep662770
Oct94600
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 Lugoj 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 28 · 8 km/hAug 3 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Lugoj

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Lugoj 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 Lugoj for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 4 · 7.3

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
Feb0.5poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr5.1fair
May6.0good
Jun6.4good
Jul6.6good
Aug7.0good
Sep7.0good
Oct5.6good
Nov2.5poor
Dec0.2poor

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 Lugoj 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 13 · 7.3

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 Lugoj, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Lugoj sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lugoj 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 Lugoj peaks around July 13 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 13UV 8Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr7Very high
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Lugoj

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
Mar3.50
Apr73
May71.5
Jun84.5
Jul84.5
Aug73.5
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Lugoj typically lasts about 282 days, from around February 27 to December 5 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 7 to October 22.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2750%Apr 790%Oct 2290%Dec 550%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2931
Feb3928
Mar6831
Apr956
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9310
Nov7330
Dec4131

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. Lugoj banks about 1,486 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr52
May188
Jun284
Jul347
Aug349
Sep207
Oct60
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.

Lugoj receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.1 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 19. The brightest month is July, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.1 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 16.1 kWhDec 201.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Lugoj?

Lugoj sits at 45.7°N, 21.9°E, 122 m above sea level, in Romania. The nearest listed city is Bocşa, 38 km away.

ReşiţaTimișoaraAradHunedoaraVršacDeva

Topography around Lugoj

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lugoj has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 86 m around an average of 123 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 364 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,192 m.

The land around Lugoj is covered by grassland (31%), artificial surfaces (24%) and cropland (22%) within 3 km, cropland (44%), grassland (29%) and trees (24%) within 16 km, and trees (49%), cropland (29%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
86 m
16 km
364 m
80 km
2,192 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Bocşa 38 km · Caransebeş 39 km · Reşiţa 43 km · Timișoara 53 km · Arad 71 km · Hunedoara 78 km · Vršac 79 km · Deva 80 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 Lugoj (45.6886°, 21.9031°, elevation 122 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).