Climate · Bucharest

Bucharest in May

Warm and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Bucharest is warm: highs near 75°F, lows near 53°F. Rain falls on about two days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour from the first week to the last.May in Bucharest is warm: highs near 24°C, lows near 12°C. Rain falls on about two days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 1 hour from the first week to the last.

High
75°F24°Caverage
Low
53°F12°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 35% of days
Daylight
14h 47mon average

Is May a good time to visit Bucharest?


A good month, just outside Bucharest's best months, which run from September.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 75°F in May, against 41°F to 88°F through the year.Highs near 24°C in May, against 5°C to 31°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

35% of days in May, against 23% to 42% through the year.

Cloud cover

48% cover in May, against 23% to 63% through the year.

Daylight

14h 47m in May, against 8h 53m to 15h 29m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

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  1. April65°18°low 42°low 6°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May75°24°low 53°low 12°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. June83°28°low 61°low 16°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Bucharest sits, in May

Europe/Bucharest

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:49 AMsets 8:34 PM
Above the sea
80 mlow-lying
Latitude
44.4°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
our one place here

The land around Bucharest, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Bucharest is our one place in Romania so far. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Bucharest. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.