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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Oradea
Oradea climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest Apr · Sep–Oct
Annual mean11°day and night
Seasonal swing22°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation622 mm120 wet days a year
47.05° N, 21.92° EElevation 126 mUTC+2 · Eastern European Standard Time
When to goOradea · weather score
Best timeApr · Sep–Oct
October: high / low17° / 6°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Oradea has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 28° and nights 15°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 3° and lows of -4°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 22°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 622 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (60 mm, 13 wet days) and October the driest (43 mm, 7 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 24% in August to 49% in January.
Compared with Bucharest, the capital, Oradea is 2.7° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- -4° · January
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- October
- Clearest skies
- August · 24% cloud
- Longest day
- 15 h 53 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 32 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 3° | 5° | 11° | 18° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 28° | 23° | 17° | 10° | 4° |
| Average low | -4° | -3° | 1° | 6° | 10° | 14° | 16° | 15° | 11° | 6° | 2° | -2° |
| Precipitation | 36 mm | 34 mm | 39 mm | 50 mm | 60 mm | 79 mm | 70 mm | 59 mm | 54 mm | 43 mm | 45 mm | 53 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 10.8 | 9 | 8 | 9.7 | 13 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 9 | 9.8 | 7.2 | 9.8 | 9.5 |
| Cloud cover | 49% | 46% | 43% | 39% | 35% | 32% | 26% | 24% | 32% | 34% | 45% | 49% |
| Daylight | 8h 55 | 10h 18 | 11h 51 | 13h 35 | 15h 03 | 15h 53 | 15h 33 | 14h 16 | 12h 37 | 10h 57 | 9h 23 | 8h 32 |
| Month score | 25 | 30 | 40 | 71 | 67 | 67 | 60 | 66 | 76 | 75 | 30 | 28 |
ivMonth by month
Oradea in every month
January25
3° / -4°
36 mm · 10.8 wet days
February30
5° / -3°
34 mm · 9 wet days
March40
11° / 1°
39 mm · 8 wet days
April71
18° / 6°
50 mm · 9.7 wet days
May67
22° / 10°
60 mm · 13 wet days
June67
26° / 14°
79 mm · 12.3 wet days
July60
28° / 16°
70 mm · 12.3 wet days
August66
28° / 15°
59 mm · 9 wet days
September76
23° / 11°
54 mm · 9.8 wet days
October75
17° / 6°
43 mm · 7.2 wet days
November30
10° / 2°
45 mm · 9.8 wet days
December28
4° / -2°
53 mm · 9.5 wet days