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Chisinau weather

Chișinău Municipality · 635,994 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:39

Partly cloudy
9°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 8°C
Wind
11 km/h
Gusts
24 km/h
Humidity
89 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
70 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:42 Set 16:53 Day 10 h 11 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
10°9°
Feels like 10°
Wind ↑ NNW 11 km/h
Gusts 24 km/h
Humidity 87 %
23:00
Partly cloudy
9°
NNW 11

Chisinau forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
2°5°8°11°14°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed10°5°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 9° · normal 8.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 9° · min 8° · normal 8.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 12° · min 7° · normal 8.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 5° · normal 8.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 9° · min 4° · normal 8.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 5° · normal 7.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 10° · min 5° · normal 7.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu1°7°13°12°3°04
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Chisinau climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 25 °C.

From 15 h 54 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 30 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −5 °C in January.

A normal year brings roughly 570 mm of rain — less than 84% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan0 °C−5 °C39 mm
Feb2 °C−4 °C31 mm
Mar9 °C1 °C39 mm
Apr16 °C6 °C49 mm
May21 °C11 °C56 mm
Jun25 °C15 °C71 mm
Jul28 °C17 °C60 mm
Aug28 °C17 °C50 mm
Sep22 °C12 °C50 mm
Oct15 °C7 °C42 mm
Nov8 °C2 °C40 mm
Dec3 °C−3 °C39 mm
Whole year15 °C6 °C570 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 47.01° N, 28.86° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Chisinau: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.520µg/m³
PM1025µg/m³
O₃30µg/m³
NO₂5µg/m³
SO₂2µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Chisinau

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Chisinau, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Chisinau

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 02:30 Set 20:04
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Chisinau); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Chisinau

Curious about the weather in Chisinau on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Chisinau weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Chisinau, Chișinău Municipality: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 9 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 12 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations