Cernavodă climate — normals and trends
Cernavodă (Romania) has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 11.9 °C and it receives 509 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 (23.2 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-0.3 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.
Cernavodă averages 70 frost days, 26 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 88 rainy days per year.
Cernavodă has warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.21 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 87 to 53 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 42.0 °C (on 20 August 1945) and the coldest -27.7 °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.
Climate normals · ERA5
CernavodăConstanța County
- coords
- 44.34°, 28.03°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
11.9°C
Average daily high
16.3°C
Average daily low
7.9°C
Annual rainfall
509mm
Sunshine / day
9.0h
Mean relative humidity
74%
Average peak wind
17.1km/h
Seasonal range
23.5°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
70 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
26 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
88 d/yr
Annual snowfall
40.7 cm
Average feels-like high
14.5 °C
Average feels-like low
5.7 °C
Average peak gust
33.1 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
16 d/yr
Solar radiation
13.8 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+1.8 °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).
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
Hottest day
42.0 °C
20 August 1945
Coldest day
-27.7 °C
25 January 1942
Wettest day
100 mm
22 September 2005
Windiest day
46.7 km/h
3 December 2012
Strongest gust
85.3 km/h
4 October 1991
Hottest feels-like
43.2 °C
5 July 2000
Coldest feels-like
-32.8 °C
25 January 1942
Snowiest day
24.1 cm
26 November 2023
Sunniest day
14.8 h
2 July 2025
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 9.9 °C | +6.9 °C | 15 mm | -22 mm |
| Feb | 3.0 °C | -2.4 °C | 16 mm | -18 mm |
| Mar | 15.6 °C | +5.8 °C | 15 mm | -25 mm |
| Apr | 16.1 °C | +0.1 °C | 28 mm | -15 mm |
| May | 20.5 °C | -1.0 °C | 65 mm | +8 mm |
| Jun | 29.1 °C | +3.3 °C | 3 mm | -59 mm |
| Jul | 32.1 °C | +3.9 °C | 34 mm | -9 mm |
| Aug | 30.4 °C | +2.1 °C | 4 mm | -30 mm |
| Sep | 25.2 °C | +1.3 °C | 27 mm | -10 mm |
| Oct | 16.9 °C | -0.6 °C | 119 mm | +80 mm |
| Nov | 14.5 °C | +3.6 °C | 72 mm | +30 mm |
| Dec | 6.5 °C | +1.2 °C | 7 mm | -35 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Cernavodă?
Cernavodă has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 11.9 °C and it receives 509 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Cernavodă?
The hottest day measured in Cernavodă between 1940 and 2025 was 20 August 1945, reaching 42.0 °C.
What is the coldest day in Cernavodă?
The coldest day measured in Cernavodă between 1940 and 2025 was 25 January 1942, at -27.7 °C.
Does it snow in Cernavodă?
Yes. Cernavodă gets on average 40.7 cm of snow per year and has around 70 frost days.
Has the climate of Cernavodă warmed?
Yes: Cernavodă warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Cernavodă?
The wettest day measured in Cernavodă between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 2005, with 100 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Cernavodă?
The windiest day measured in Cernavodă between 1940 and 2025 was 3 December 2012, with winds reaching 46.7 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Cernavodă?
The warmest month in Cernavodă is July (23.2 °C on average); the coldest is January (-0.3 °C).
How much does it rain in Cernavodă?
Cernavodă receives on average 509 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 88 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Cernavodă?
Cernavodă 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 Cernavodă?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Cernavodă between 1940 and 2025 was 26 November 2023, with 24.1 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Cernavodă?
Yes: Cernavodă has on average 16 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Cernavodă?
In Cernavodă, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 43.2 °C on 5 July 2000, and the lowest was -32.8 °C on 25 January 1942.
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