Sibiu weather by month
The best time to visit Sibiu is June, August and September — 93/100 in September, 24°C and 7 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (87/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 48/100 — cold, dry, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Best season: June to August (87/100 on average) · worst January (48/100)
- Days
- 24°C
- Nights
- 10°C
- Wet days
- 7
- Sun
- 9.7 h
- Humidity
- 74%
- Daylight
- 13 h

Sibiu, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Sibiu 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 Sibiu through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- April
- Orthodox Easter10–13 AprHoliday
- June
- Sibiu Theatre Festival19–28 JunFestival
- Transfagarasan road open25 Jun – 31 Oct (usually)Opening
- July
- ARTmania festival24–25 JulFestival
- September
- Sibiu Music Festival5–20 Sep (usually)Festival
- October
- Astra Film Festival17–25 OctFestival
- November
- Sibiu Christmas Market14 Nov – 4 Jan (usually)Festival
Crowds in Sibiu 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.
BusySibiu Music Festival, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Sibiu
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Customs & etiquette
A guide to Sibiu explains the city's "City with Eyes" nickname: the Baroque eyebrow dormers built into many rooftops look like eyes peering out from half-open eyelids, though they're actually functional ventilation shafts rather than any deliberate watching-you effect. Their timing tip: visit during September's "Sibiu Days" festival for genuinely perfect weather, noticeably fewer crowds than summer, and free cultural events throughout the city, a better window than the busier June International Theatre Festival if crowds matter more to you than the performances.
Traveller notes on Sibiu
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters cite mid-March temperatures across Romania typically ranging 5-15C, with daytime highs occasionally reaching 20C depending on region and exact timing, and snowfall relatively unlikely at lower elevations outside the mountains, though a trip up into the mountains themselves in early March is likely to still be genuinely cold. One visitor's March 2022 Sibiu trip specifically described walking through residential streets and a large park dusted with a fine, recent snowfall. Posters recommend layered clothing given how much temperatures can vary within the same day and across different parts of Transylvania. Posters generally rate March as a workable, if still cool and occasionally snow-dusted, time to visit Sibiu, with the medieval old town and Astra open-air museum both viable regardless.
Forum posters describe September as still summer-like around the Fagaras mountains near Sibiu - balmy days with somewhat chillier nights, and if the weather cooperates, most of the day can be spent outside in shirt sleeves. Early September gets the best odds; by late September into early October, conditions are still called nice but with a real uptick in rain chances and cooler air. Rain gear and layers are the standard packing advice regardless of exact dates. For the visit itself, posters recommend about two days in Sibiu's old quarter and museums, with day trips out to the nearby fortified-church German villages as the natural add-on.
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