Last month was warmer than normal and drier, and what is usually the precipitation “pole” in Romania had a very special March. In a well-known mountain resort in Apuseni, it rained ten times less than in an ordinary month of “Mărțişor”, according to the data published by ANM.
A much warmer March
The country's monthly mean air temperature in March 2026 was 6.1 °C, 2.4 °C higher than the median of the standard reference interval (1991–2020). In Bucharest it was 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than average, while in Dumbrăvița de Codru (Bihor county) the average temperature was 4.4 degrees Celsius above average (the biggest deviation in the country).
The average temperature last month was between -6.4 °C, at the weather station Vf. Omu and 9.9 °C, at Moldova Veche.
Absolute temperatures varied between -12.9 C at Omu and +21.4 C at Zimnicea.
Very little rain in the resort that holds the rainfall record
March was special in that there was very little rain in the first 20 days, but then came heavy rainfall in the last five days. It rained the most in Băișoara, a mountain resort in Cluj county, with a monthly total of 82.2 l/m2. of which more than half in one day (March 29). It also rained well above average at the Lăcăuți weather station, in the Buzăului mountains.
The total amount of average precipitation per country in March 2026 had the value of 31 mm (l/m2), being 23% lower than the median of the standard reference interval (1991 – 2020). In Bucharest, it exceeded 50 mm, 83% above the multi-year average, ANM data also show.
The least compared to normal – deviation of 90% – rained at the weather station in Stâna de Vale (a total of 11 l/m2). The resort is the place where it rains the most annually in Romania, an average of 1,600 l/m2 for 12 months, and in March the average is 113 l/m2.
The month of March 2026 at Stâna de Vale was all the more special, as the resort holds the absolute record for the place in Romania where the most precipitation fell in the third month of the year: 382 l/m2 in March 1944. The Stâna de Vale resort is located on the Hell Valley, on the western slope of the Apuseni Mountains, in the southern part of the Vlădeasa Mountains.
On average, Sulina is the place where it rains the least in the third month of the year: 14 l/m2.
The maximum thickness of the snow cover in March 2026 exceeded 160 cm at some stations in the high mountain area, at over 2000 m altitude. The highest value, 215 cm, was recorded at the weather station Vf. Omu (Bucegi Mountains), and 193 cm were measured at Bâlea Lac.
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