The year 2025 was the fourth warmest in the history of weather measurements in Romania. How many months were dry?
Balea Lac weather station (photo Fotokon, Dreamstime.com)
The year 2025 was the fourth warmest year from 1901 to the present in Romania, announces ANM. Nine of the 12 months were warmer than the climatological average, with January being the farthest. Seven months were dry, with a maximum in June.
The average annual temperature was 11.95 °C, and the thermal deviation of + 1.22 °C compared to the average of the period 1991-2020.
The three warmest years were 2024, 2023 and 2019
The interval 2012-2025 represents the warmest time interval of 14 consecutive years in the history of national meteorological measurements, a fact that reconfirms the annual trend of increasing air temperature in our country as well, say the ANM.
In 2025, 170 general weather warnings were issued, of which 14 were code red.
Last year recorded positive monthly temperature deviations in nine months, in all winter months reaching values that had deviations greater than 3 °C, with a maximum of 3.9 °C in January 2025. March, November and December were more than 3 degrees C warmer than normal. And the months of June and September were very warm.
In 2025, seven dry months were recorded, June being the driest in history, with an average amount of only 18.9 mm, against a climatological average of 90.5 mm (1991-2020), ANM data show.
The summer was the fourth driest summer, with a national rainfall of 143.8 mm.
As of August 31, 2025, soil drought was extreme, severe, and moderate in most of the country, with the annual amount of precipitation in the 2024-2025 agricultural year being 571.3 mm.
At the opposite pole in terms of rainfall extremes, monthly rainfall amounts were above the monthly multi-year average in five months.
In May 2025, the highest monthly amount was recorded, 120.6 mm, against an average of 74.2 mm.
In the first decade of October, 51 weather stations recorded amounts of more than 100.0 mm, of which 13 stations exceeded the previously recorded maximum monthly records.
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