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Travel and Tourism in Romania
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Romania.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Time Difference
- UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- lei (RON)
- Climate
- Romania has a continental climate, particularly in the Old Kingdom (east and south of the Carpathians). A long, and occasionally harsh, winter (December-March), a hot summer (May-August), and a prolonged autumn (September-November) are the principal seasons. The average daily minimum temperature for Bucharest (February) is 28.6ºF, and the average daily maximum (August) is 95ºF. Rainfall, heaviest from April through July, averages 5 inches in June.
- Language(s) Spoken
- The Germans and Hungarians speak their native ethnic tongues. The Roma speak Romany.
- Ethnic Groups
- Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4%
- National Holiday
- Unification Day (unification of Romania and Transylvania), 1 December (1918)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 46 00 N, 25 00 E
- Location
- Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine
- Airports
- 62
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Bucharest: The City of Contradictions
Arriving in Bucharest for the first time can be disorienting. The city sprawls across the Wallachian Plain without the natural geographic boundaries that give shape to many European capitals, and the legacy of communist urban planning has created juxtapositions of scale and style that resist easy comprehension. But Bucharest rewards persistence. Beneath the layers of communist construction and post-communist development lies a city of remarkable character and genuine beauty, a city whose contradictions have produced a distinctive creativity and energy that is recognizably its own.
The Romanian Athenaeum, the semicircular neoclassical concert hall completed in 1888 and standing in the heart of the city near Piata Revolutiei, is the symbol of Bucharest and by virtually universal agreement its most beautiful building. Built with funds raised through public subscription, the Athenaeum presents a porticoed facade of Ionic columns beneath a green dome that has become inseparable from images of the city.
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Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical care in Romania is generally not up to Western standards and basic medical supplies are limited, especially outside major cities. Some medical providers that meet Western quality standards are available in Bucharest and other cities but can be difficult to locate. Sanitary conditions in hospitals are variable. Nursing care and assistance from orderlies is often lacking in hospitals. Families often provide basic assistance to hospitalized relatives that U.S. citizens generally expect the hospital to provide.
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