Padeş climate — normals and trends
Padeş (Romania) has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 8.2 °C and it receives 996 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 (18.6 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-3.3 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Padeş averages 119 frost days, 3 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 148 rainy days per year.
Padeş has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.23 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 133 to 105 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 36.2 °C (on 24 July 2007) and the coldest -26.1 °C (on 19 December 1946).
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
PadeşGorj County
- coords
- 45.02°, 22.85°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
8.2°C
Average daily high
12.8°C
Average daily low
4.0°C
Annual rainfall
996mm
Sunshine / day
9.1h
Mean relative humidity
79%
Average peak wind
9.5km/h
Seasonal range
21.9°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
119 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
3 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
148 d/yr
Annual snowfall
141.4 cm
Average feels-like high
11.4 °C
Average feels-like low
1.7 °C
Average peak gust
28.7 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
13.3 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+1.9 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.46 · 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
36.2 °C
24 July 2007
Coldest day
-26.1 °C
19 December 1946
Wettest day
62 mm
29 July 1969
Windiest day
29.5 km/h
2 April 1944
Strongest gust
88.6 km/h
13 February 1944
Hottest feels-like
39.2 °C
6 July 1988
Coldest feels-like
-30.7 °C
19 December 1946
Snowiest day
33.6 cm
6 February 1969
Sunniest day
15.0 h
11 June 1940
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 5.2 °C | +5.0 °C | 19 mm | -47 mm |
| Feb | 1.9 °C | -0.5 °C | 24 mm | -43 mm |
| Mar | 11.2 °C | +4.1 °C | 137 mm | +66 mm |
| Apr | 14.6 °C | +1.4 °C | 64 mm | -30 mm |
| May | 16.6 °C | -1.5 °C | 122 mm | +3 mm |
| Jun | 26.1 °C | +4.3 °C | 24 mm | -93 mm |
| Jul | 26.7 °C | +2.7 °C | 64 mm | -24 mm |
| Aug | 25.4 °C | +1.4 °C | 35 mm | -35 mm |
| Sep | 21.5 °C | +1.7 °C | 37 mm | -25 mm |
| Oct | 12.3 °C | -1.4 °C | 106 mm | +33 mm |
| Nov | 9.1 °C | +2.2 °C | 165 mm | +77 mm |
| Dec | 4.7 °C | +2.8 °C | 64 mm | -17 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Padeş?
Padeş has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 8.2 °C and it receives 996 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Padeş?
The hottest day measured in Padeş between 1940 and 2025 was 24 July 2007, reaching 36.2 °C.
What is the coldest day in Padeş?
The coldest day measured in Padeş between 1940 and 2025 was 19 December 1946, at -26.1 °C.
Does it snow in Padeş?
Yes. Padeş gets on average 141.4 cm of snow per year and has around 119 frost days.
Has the climate of Padeş warmed?
Yes: Padeş warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Padeş?
The wettest day measured in Padeş between 1940 and 2025 was 29 July 1969, with 62 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Padeş?
The windiest day measured in Padeş between 1940 and 2025 was 2 April 1944, with winds reaching 29.5 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Padeş?
The warmest month in Padeş is July (18.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (-3.3 °C).
How much does it rain in Padeş?
Padeş receives on average 996 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 148 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Padeş?
Padeş gets on average 9.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,322 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Padeş?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Padeş between 1940 and 2025 was 6 February 1969, with 33.6 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Padeş?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Padeş.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Padeş?
In Padeş, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.2 °C on 6 July 1988, and the lowest was -30.7 °C on 19 December 1946.
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