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Bucharest · 1,877,155 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:41

Light rain
12°
Light rain
Feels like 12°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
10 km/h
Humidity
97 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
99 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:48 Set 17:09 Day 10 h 20 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Light rain
Light rain
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SSW 5 km/h
Gusts 13 km/h
Humidity 97 %
💧 4.5 mm
20:00
Light rain
12°
2.9mm
S 4
23:00
Light rain
12°
1.6mm
SSW 5

Bucharest 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)
5°8°10°13°15°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed10°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 13° · min 12° · normal 10.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 11° · normal 10.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 10° · normal 9.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 10° · normal 9.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 9° · min 8° · normal 9.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 10° · min 7° · normal 9.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 10° · min 7° · normal 9.2°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu3°9°14°13°5°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bucharest climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.

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

From 15 h 32 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 50 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 690 mm of rain — less than 75% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 7 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan2 °C−5 °C43 mm
Feb5 °C−2 °C37 mm
Mar11 °C2 °C50 mm
Apr18 °C8 °C59 mm
May23 °C12 °C72 mm
Jun27 °C17 °C88 mm
Jul30 °C19 °C78 mm
Aug30 °C19 °C49 mm
Sep25 °C14 °C62 mm
Oct18 °C8 °C55 mm
Nov10 °C2 °C48 mm
Dec4 °C−2 °C48 mm
Whole year17 °C8 °C690 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 44.43° N, 26.11° 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 Bucharest: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.520µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃37µg/m³
NO₂8µg/m³
SO₂2µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bucharest

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

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Bucharest

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 02:57 Set 20:01
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/Bucharest); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bucharest

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

Bucharest weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bucharest, Bucharest: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light rain”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 13 °C and around 9 mm of rain. 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.

Bucharest weather data for developers

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