Romania Climate and Weather Guide. When you are buying a property abroad it is useful to know the climate. To help you find out more this Romania country guide provides useful climate information. Romania is an almost landlocked country in south east Europe. The east and south of the country are low-lying and rather flat. The centre and west include the Carpathian Mountains and foothills, with peaks of 1,800 m/6,000 ft.
Romania has a continental type climate, with cold, snowy winters and warm summers. Precipitation is normally low except in the higher parts of the Carpathians. Spring and summer are the wettest seasons when thunderstorms are most frequent. Winter precipitation is mostly snow and lies between thirty to fifty days a year at low levels and up to 100 days in the mountains.
The mildest area in winter is along the coast of the Black Sea, Constanta is typical of weather. In Romania spring is a short and changeable season. Late summer and autumn are often rather dry. Summers in Romania are generally warm and sunny with an average of nine to ten hours of sunshine a day. Winter sunshine is rather low, averaging two to three hours a day.
Away from the Black Sea coast there are no great differences in climate from one part of the country to another, apart from the cooler and wetter summers in the Carpathians. The climate of Bucharest and Arad represent conditions east and west of the Carpathians respectively.