Italy
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Climate of Italy
Country climate guideItaly is a long peninsula with an almost unbroken coastline, and the sea cushions most of its weather. But the Apennines, the Alps and the great northern plains complicate that: the south is hot and arid in summer, the north is continental with real winter cold, and the coasts themselves vary between humid and dry. A single country therefore contains several distinguishable climate zones.
Main climate types
Coastal Italy is a classic Mediterranean climate — hot and dry summers with mild, wet winters — classified Csa and Csb in the Köppen scheme. The Po Valley in the north is different: humidity, fog and chilly winters give it a humid continental profile, sometimes Cfa. The alpine belt is subarctic, and the deep valleys of Lombardy and Veneto are drier and warmer than the surrounding mountains.
Temperatures
Rome, at sea level, averages about 8 °C in January and about 25 °C in July, with the hot part of summer lasting from late June to mid-September. Milan, inland in the Po basin, averages about 2 °C in January and roughly 24 °C in July, and frosts occur there most winters. The largest single temperature contrast in the country is between the southern lowlands and the alpine valleys.
Rainfall
Annual totals vary from about 500 mm on the southern plains and the Adriatic side of the Apennines — where the rains must come over the mountains from the north-west — to over 1,500 mm on the Ligurian coast. Rome gets about 800 mm and Milan about 900 mm, most of it between October and March. Summer drought is a real feature, and eight dry weeks in the south is not unusual. Snow falls in the north every winter, though the far south sees it only on the inland mountains.
When to go
Italian climate rewards different months in different places. The coast is best in late May and June and again in September and October, before the summer heat and the crowds. The cities of the north are most pleasant in May and again in late September; winter brings fog on the Po. The south and the islands are worth visiting in winter, when the coast is mild, and in spring, when the countryside blooms.