Chișinău (Kishinev) weather by month
The best time to visit Chișinău (Kishinev) is May, June and September — 94/100 in September, 25°C and 6 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (84/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 45/100 — freezing, a little rain, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Best season: June to August (84/100 on average) · worst January (45/100)
- Days
- 25°C
- Nights
- 14°C
- Wet days
- 6
- Sun
- 9.4 h
- Humidity
- 60%
- Daylight
- 13 h

Chișinău, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Chișinău is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Chișinău through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- February
- Dragobete24 FebFestival
- March
- Mărțișor1–10 MarFestival
- April
- Orthodox Easter and Blajini5 Apr – 20 May (usually)Holiday
- May
- Green Theatre open-air season29 May – 15 Sep (usually)Opening
- August
- Independence and Limba Noastră26 Aug – 1 SepHoliday
- September
- Chișinău Marathon10–20 Sep (usually)Festival
- October
- National Wine Day3–4 OctFestival
- Chișinău City Day13–15 OctHoliday
- December
- Christmas market at PMAN1 Dec – 18 Jan (usually)Festival
- Two Christmases25 Dec – 14 JanHoliday
Crowds in Chișinău in September
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusyIndependence and Limba Noastră, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Chișinău
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Detailed month-specific weather trip reports for Chișinău are sparse on the forum, with most discussion focused on itineraries and sightseeing - the Nativity Cathedral, Ciuflea Monastery and the city's historical museums come up often - rather than granular weather detail. Posters discussing the broader Moldova region in late winter note that areas farther north can still see heavy snow into early spring, making hiking difficult through snow and ice at that time. Given the thin destination-specific detail for Chișinău itself, this note leans on the well-established regional pattern for this part of Eastern Europe: March marks an early, still-cool transition toward spring, with lingering cold and a real chance of a late snow event, especially compared to the country's northern reaches.
Forum posters who've visited Moldova's capital in September describe the weather as beautiful and warm, with one visitor specifically calling out a clean, pleasant atmosphere with no unpleasant smells to contend with while exploring the city. Late summer into early autumn is repeatedly framed as a favorable stretch to visit, following on from what other posters describe as similarly good August conditions. As a smaller, less internationally-documented capital, Chisinau doesn't generate the volume of dedicated weather threads that bigger European cities do, but the visitor consensus across reports from this time of year is consistently positive - pleasant temperatures without the crowds of better-known regional capitals.
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