Zalău, Romania Climate
The warmest month is August, with an average high of 27°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -6°C. A normal year brings 655 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 20°C
- Normal low
- 9°C
- Reanalysis high
- 27°Cin 1993
- Reanalysis low
- 1°Cin 1997
- Chance of a wet day
- 32%
- Daylight
- 12 h 02 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1°C | -6°C | 13°C (2001) | -23°C (2000) | 31 mm | 9.3 |
| February | 3°C | -5°C | 16°C (2014) | -21°C (2012) | 34 mm | 8.5 |
| March | 8°C | -1°C | 23°C (1991) | -16°C (2005) | 40 mm | 9.3 |
| April | 15°C | 4°C | 27°C (2012) | -7°C (1997) | 51 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 20°C | 9°C | 30°C (2003) | -2°C (2011) | 74 mm | 15.5 |
| June | 24°C | 13°C | 35°C (2002) | 4°C (2005) | 90 mm | 15.0 |
| July | 26°C | 15°C | 37°C (2007) | 6°C (1996) | 84 mm | 15.5 |
| August | 27°C | 15°C | 37°C (2017) | 7°C (1993) | 59 mm | 9.3 |
| September | 21°C | 10°C | 36°C (2015) | 1°C (2018) | 57 mm | 9.0 |
| October | 16°C | 5°C | 30°C (2012) | -6°C (1997) | 50 mm | 9.3 |
| November | 9°C | 0°C | 24°C (2018) | -13°C (1995) | 42 mm | 9.0 |
| December | 2°C | -4°C | 14°C (2019) | -20°C (1996) | 43 mm | 9.3 |
| Year | 14°C | 5°C | 655 mm | 131 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
655 mm in a normal year, most in June.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Zalău.
The muggiest month is June, when 2 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -5°C | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -4°C | 85% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -1°C | 79% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 4°C | 73% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 9°C | 70% | 92% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 12°C | 67% | 62% | 27% | 9% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 12°C | 63% | 53% | 35% | 11% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 12°C | 59% | 61% | 31% | 7% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 8°C | 66% | 93% | 7% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 5°C | 74% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 1°C | 83% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -3°C | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is August, with the sky 49 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 74 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is March, averaging 14.0 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 18, with 15 h 56 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 18, with 8 h 29 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Zalău in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.