About Romania: When to go

The climate is pretty crucial in deciding where and when to go. Before planning a trip one should take into consideration a well known fact about Romania and that would be its fairly brutal winters - snow blankets much of the country, temperatures of minus fifteen to twenty degrees are not uncommon, and a strong, icy wind (the crivat) sweeps down from Russia. Conditions improve with spring, bringing rain and wild-flowers to the mountains and the softest of blue skies over Bucharest, and prompting the great migration of birds through the Delta. By May, the lowlands are warming up and you might well find strong sunshine on the coast before the season starts in July. Although by far the hottest time of the year, summer or early autumn is the perfect time to investigate Transylvania's festivals and hiking trails (though brief but violent thunder-storms are common in the Carpathians during this period), and to see the Painted Monasteries of Bucovina, while flocks of birds again pass through the Delta towards the end of autumn.