Changelog

Typing a salary below the 6,325-lei floor produced a refusal that pointed "below the form" for the reason — and the reason was not on the page. It is shown with the refusal now: in that band Codul Fiscal art. 77 grants a personal-allowance deduction keyed to your number of dependants, which this page will not guess at.

The net-pay result now reads "Estimated net pay under Romania's national payroll rules, 2026" — nothing about the calculation changed.

Type your gross monthly pay and see CAS, CASS and income tax applied line by line, against this year's national rates. Scoped to pay above 6,325 lei a month — below that, a personal tax deduction applies that this page can't yet answer for, so it says so rather than guess.

Cluj's municipal creșe publish four things about enrolment, in four different places: the calendar of stages, the departajare criteria applied when a creșă gets more applications than it has free places, a page per creșă with its address and capacity, and a statistics sheet going back to 2015. The new page puts them together and works out from today's date which stage, if any, is open — so it says "the 2026-2027 round is over" now rather than listing five dates from the spring. The figures are the city's own, and they are the reason the page exists: 1,238 applications were turned down in 2020-2021 and 244 in 2026-2027. They are a record of what happened, not a forecast — the page does not work out anyone's chance of a place, and the criteria are shown as the published list they are, not as a test of whether a child qualifies. Two rules sit near the top because they are the ones that cost families a place: once an application is validated nothing more can be added to the file, and once results are posted there is no appeal. This covers creșă (antepreșcolar) only. Grădinița is a separate round run by ISJ Cluj on its own calendar, and the page links it. The next calendar is normally published at the end of April.

The monthly-cost page quoted 114 lei for the Baciu metropolitan pass beside 115 for Florești and 165 for Apahida. CTP publishes two Baciu passes: 114 lei if you stay on the single line M31, and 180 lei for the unrestricted one — and 180 is the figure that compares with the other two. Nothing was wrong, but one number was answering a different question from the two next to it, which made Baciu look like the cheapest commune to commute from when it is the dearest of the three. Corrected against CTP's own tariff page, read 29 August 2026.

Kerbside Zona I/II payment (SMS 7480) is enforced Monday to Saturday, 07:00 to 21:00 - the page previously had no hours at all for this, only for the garages.

The town's own facts said Cluj's PM2.5 measured about 45.6 µg/m³ and was among Romania's worst — which contradicted the Air & Smog tool on the same site. IQAir puts the yearly average at around 13 µg/m³, roughly 2.8 times the World Health Organization guideline: high enough that the bad days matter, and worst on calm freezing days when the Someș basin traps wood smoke. The record now says that.

The board still said the widening and the Florești overpass would run until "around summer 2026", a date that has now passed. The Cluj–Florești works reached 92 percent in early July; the city has August down for road markings and the new traffic-light system, and expects full traffic on all six lanes — including about 3.5 km of dedicated bus and emergency lane between Calvaria and the hospital site — from 1 September 2026.

The transport line still carried the tariffs that came in on 1 August 2025. CTP has since moved to a simplified grid: a monthly pass is now 108 lei for one line, 147 for two and 213 for all of them, and a single ticket is 3.50 lei. Students, master's and doctoral students under 30 enrolled full-time at a Cluj university still travel free; those who do not qualify pay 44 lei a month, not 56. The metropolitan lines out to Florești, Baciu and Apahida are charged by zone and are now named separately.

Pick how long you are staying and the options rank cheapest first, using the city's own published tariffs. The gap is bigger than most people expect: a six-hour day in town is 2 lei at the airport Park & Ride — where the parking ticket is also your bus ticket into the city — against 48 lei at Moților on a weekday and 80 lei at Piața Unirii. Weekend rates at Moților are about a third of the weekday ones, and the page shows both.

Cluj runs on festivals, but they're scattered across a dozen organiser sites. A new page gathers the recurring ones — Cluj Days in May, Jazz in the Park and TIFF in June, Electric Castle, UNTOLD and the Hungarian Days across the summer, the Christmas market in December — in the order they next come around, each with a countdown and a link to the organiser's own page for exact dates. UNTOLD's entry carries the practical heads-up for residents: the road closures and crowds around Cluj Arena to expect. Dates shift year to year, so the page always sends you to the source to confirm.

The town page now opens with a colored-pencil banner looking down from Cetatuia over the Somes, the old-town rooftops and the Gothic tower of St. Michael's Church, the hills beyond.

Three tools to start: a live air-and-smog check with pollen, a calculator for what a month here really costs (rent, bills, the CTP pass, food), and a neighbour-reported board for how the DN1 run to Florești is moving right now.