Climate and average weather in Mediaş

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

Best: late April to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mediaş typically varies from -5°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -14°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 Mediaş for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jun
104 mm
Driest
Feb
28 mm
Rain / yr
706 mm
125 wet days
Daylight
8.4–15.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
301 m
46.2°N
Clearest
Aug
44% cloud

Mediaş is locality in Sibiu County, Romania.

Air quality
Good
PM10 21.2 µg/m³ · 2019
Founded
1267

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

Mediaş 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 Mediaş, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 14 to September 20, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Mediaş 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 25, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Mediaş is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 10°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)
Jan2-5
Feb5-3
Mar101
Apr176
May2110
Jun2514
Jul2715
Aug2715
Sep2211
Oct166
Nov91
Dec3-3

How hot and cold Mediaş 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 -9°C (around January 27), with roughly 140 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)
Jan22-8-5
Feb55-7-3
Mar1010-21
Apr161746
May21211010
Jun25251414
Jul27271515
Aug27271515
Sep22221111
Oct161646
Nov99-11
Dec33-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Mediaş

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 -5°C.

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

Mediaş 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°2985.48.80.0
Feb / -3°287.44.5100.2
Mar10° / 439.32.511.62.4
Apr17° / 6511.90.713.34.9
May21° / 10°9014.6014.75.9
Jun25° / 14°10415.1015.56.0
Jul27° / 15°9014.7015.26.0
Aug27° / 15°71110146.6
Sep22° / 11°659.2012.36.9
Oct16° / 5080.110.75.3
Nov / 377.629.21.9
Dec / -3°3584.28.50.0

Chance of rain

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

Mediaş gets about 706 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 4.4 months, from around Mar 31 to Aug 12, peaking in May at about 53% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Nov 2.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 104 mm over about 15 wet days; February is the driest, with 28 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 29 · 53%Nov 2 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb277
Mar309
Apr4012
May4615
Jun5115
Jul4715
Aug3611
Sep309
Oct268
Nov258
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mediaş collects about 706 mm of rain across 125 wet days — roughly 59 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 104 mm, while February is the driest at just 28 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2928436590104907165503735
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2985
Feb2875
Mar4393
Apr65121
May90150
Jun104150
Jul90150
Aug71110
Sep6590
Oct5080
Nov3782
Dec3584

Snow in Mediaş

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.

Mediaş averages about 19 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 31 to Apr 22 — about 5.7 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 77 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan517
Feb521
Mar39
Apr17
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov29
Dec415

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mediaş, 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 June 3 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around November 5. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 68% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 6 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around April 23. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 63% 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 · 71%Feb 18 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4060
Feb3763
Mar4159
Apr4555
May4555
Jun5446
Jul6238
Aug6832
Sep5644
Oct5149
Nov4456
Dec3862

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 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 8 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.88:084:56
Feb10.07:365:38
Mar11.66:446:20
Apr13.35:437:02
May14.74:567:42
Jun15.54:368:09
Jul15.24:518:05
Aug14.05:277:26
Sep12.36:076:27
Oct10.76:485:27
Nov9.27:324:43
Dec8.58:054:32

Sunny days

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

Mediaş averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.6 months, from around Jun 24 to Nov 10. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is February, down near 7 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1615 daysFeb 187 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug15Mixed
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 Mediaş, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 2 to September 3. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 41% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 4 to June 1, 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 24 · 100%Jul 30 · 49%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May831510
Jun3837232
Jul2138347
Aug2839294
Sep772030
Oct97300
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 Mediaş is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 21 · 9 km/hAug 4 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Mediaş

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Mediaş's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Mediaş

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Mediaş 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 Mediaş 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 7 · 7.0

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
Feb0.2poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr4.9fair
May5.9good
Jun6.0good
Jul6.0good
Aug6.6good
Sep6.8good
Oct5.2fair
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 Mediaş for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 15 · 6.9

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 Mediaş, 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 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, Mediaş sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mediaş 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 Mediaş peaks around July 17 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highModerateLowJul 17UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr7Very high
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Mediaş

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 8.5 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
Mar30
Apr73
May70
Jun84
Jul8.55
Aug7.54
Sep5.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Mediaş typically lasts about 258 days, from around March 11 to November 23 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 9 to October 20.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1150%Apr 990%Oct 2090%Nov 2350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1931
Feb2728
Mar5831
Apr948
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9212
Nov6130
Dec2631

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. Mediaş banks about 1,412 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
Apr40
May180
Jun280
Jul341
Aug340
Sep192
Oct40
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.

Mediaş receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.1 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.2 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 146.0 kWhDec 201.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.4Dim
Feb2.2Moderate
Mar3.5Moderate
Apr4.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Mediaş?

Mediaş sits at 46.2°N, 24.4°E, 301 m above sea level, in Romania. The nearest listed city is Târnăveni, 19 km away.

SibiuTârgu MureşOcna MureşAiud

Topography around Mediaş

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mediaş has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 249 m around an average of 360 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 379 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,279 m.

The land around Mediaş is covered by trees (48%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, trees (43%), grassland (33%) and cropland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (38%), grassland (35%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
249 m
16 km
379 m
80 km
2,279 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Târnăveni 19 km · Blaj 33 km · Sighisoara 35 km · Luduş 40 km · Sibiu 44 km · Târgu Mureş 45 km · Ocna Mureş 45 km · Aiud 51 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 Mediaş (46.1667°, 24.35°, elevation 301 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).