Borcea climate — normals and trends
Borcea has a hot-summer humid continental climate, averaging 12.0 °C annually with 516 mm of rain per year.
Climate normals · ERA5
BorceaCălărași County
- coords
- 44.33°, 27.75°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
The normals for this period
The average of every indicator across the whole window: temperature, water, sky, wind and notable days.
Mean daily temperature
12.0°C
Average daily high
16.4°C
Average daily low
8.1°C
Annual rainfall
516mm
Sunshine / day
9.0h
Mean relative humidity
74%
Average peak wind
17.2km/h
Seasonal range
23.7°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
69 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
28 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
87 d/yr
Annual snowfall
43.8 cm
Average feels-like high
14.7 °C
Average feels-like low
5.9 °C
Average peak gust
32.8 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
19 d/yr
Solar radiation
13.7 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
What the yearly averages say about warming here, and whether the slope is statistically solid.
+1.9 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.34 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Climate month by month
How an average year unfolds: when it rains, when it turns hot, when the sun is out.
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
The most extreme days ever measured here, then the year-by-year detail.
Hottest day
42.2 °C
20 August 1945
Coldest day
-27.9 °C
25 January 1942
Wettest day
93 mm
23 September 1964
Windiest day
47.4 km/h
3 December 2012
Strongest gust
88.6 km/h
4 October 1991
Hottest feels-like
42.9 °C
5 July 2000
Coldest feels-like
-33.1 °C
25 January 1942
Snowiest day
26.0 cm
26 November 2023
Sunniest day
14.8 h
2 July 2025
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
A specific year
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 10.0 °C | +7.1 °C | 16 mm | -22 mm |
| Feb | 2.5 °C | -2.8 °C | 18 mm | -17 mm |
| Mar | 16.0 °C | +5.9 °C | 15 mm | -26 mm |
| Apr | 16.5 °C | +0.2 °C | 25 mm | -18 mm |
| May | 20.7 °C | -1.0 °C | 67 mm | +10 mm |
| Jun | 29.3 °C | +3.4 °C | 5 mm | -58 mm |
| Jul | 32.4 °C | +4.1 °C | 47 mm | +3 mm |
| Aug | 30.6 °C | +2.2 °C | 4 mm | -32 mm |
| Sep | 25.7 °C | +1.6 °C | 27 mm | -10 mm |
| Oct | 16.9 °C | -0.8 °C | 127 mm | +88 mm |
| Nov | 14.5 °C | +3.6 °C | 83 mm | +40 mm |
| Dec | 6.5 °C | +1.3 °C | 8 mm | -34 mm |
The year's extremes
What was the weather like that day?
The weather actually measured on a given date, anywhere in the covered window.
Climate at a glance
What these normals say about the place, in a few sentences, and the notions needed to read them.
Borcea (Romania) has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 12.0 °C and it receives 516 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (23.4 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-0.3 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.
Borcea averages 69 frost days, 28 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 87 rainy days per year.
Borcea has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.22 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 86 to 52 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 42.2 °C (on 20 August 1945) and the coldest -27.9 °C (on 25 January 1942).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Borcea?
Borcea has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 12.0 °C and it receives 516 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Borcea?
The hottest day measured in Borcea between 1940 and 2025 was 20 August 1945, reaching 42.2 °C.
What is the coldest day in Borcea?
The coldest day measured in Borcea between 1940 and 2025 was 25 January 1942, at -27.9 °C.
Does it snow in Borcea?
Yes. Borcea gets on average 43.8 cm of snow per year and has around 69 frost days.
Has the climate of Borcea warmed?
Yes: Borcea warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Borcea?
The wettest day measured in Borcea between 1940 and 2025 was 23 September 1964, with 93 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Borcea?
The windiest day measured in Borcea between 1940 and 2025 was 3 December 2012, with winds reaching 47.4 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Borcea?
The warmest month in Borcea is July (23.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (-0.3 °C).
How much does it rain in Borcea?
Borcea receives on average 516 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 87 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Borcea?
Borcea gets on average 9.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,285 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Borcea?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Borcea between 1940 and 2025 was 26 November 2023, with 26.0 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Borcea?
Yes: Borcea has on average 19 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Borcea?
In Borcea, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 42.9 °C on 5 July 2000, and the lowest was -33.1 °C on 25 January 1942.
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