Chisinau - Post Report Question and Answers

What is the overall climate: is it extremely hot or cold, wet or dry, at any time of year, for example?

Temperate, four seasons. - Sep 2023


Continental climate; winters are cold and snowy, summers are long and tend to be hot and a bit dry. It's similar to the US Midwest or Great Plains. - Apr 2019


The winters are loooong (6 months)and cold, although embassy houses are well-made and you will be comfortable if you live in one. The other three seasons are kind of smushed into the remaining six months. Spring and summer, though quite short after a long winter, are very pleasant. I keep hearing that it can get quite hot here, but I've actually had the small heater on in my office on and off for both seasons. Not sure yet about fall. One word of caution: bring your Yaktrax or ice cleats...the sidewalks and streets here in Chisinau tend to get as smooth and slick as an ice rink...even with my ice cleats on, I've managed to come close to falling. I know many people who've fallen and broken bones, and this is NOT the place you want to break a bone. (The medical care here is indeed post-Soviet in nature.) - Aug 2011


Weather is fairly similar to that in the northern United States. There are four distinct seasons. Winter can be long and cold, although temperatures do not often drop below zero Fahrenheit. Similarly, although the summers can be hot...it does not often get above 100 (although it can and it does). - May 2010


Similar to Maryland. - Mar 2010


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