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Climate in Rome

Rome has a Mediterranean climate with continental influence due to its inland position. Summers are hot and dry, with average highs of 31 degrees Celsius, and winters are mild with average lows of 4 degrees.

Annual rainfall is around 800 mm, concentrated in autumn and winter. Mediterranean cut-off lows can deliver intense rain in a few days, with problems along the Tiber and low-lying areas.

The sirocco, a hot, dusty wind from North Africa, arrives several times a year and can spike temperatures and degrade air quality. The northerly tramontana brings cold, dry air in winter.

Best time to visit is spring (April-May) and autumn (September-October), avoiding the extreme July-August heat. Use the hourly forecast, UV index and air quality before planning the Colosseum, the Forums or Vatican City.

The climate of Rome, with thirty years of data

Rome is Mediterranean by the book: a hot, dry summer, with July and August practically without rain, and a wet autumn and winter, with peak precipitation in November. The nearby Tyrrhenian moderates the maxima on the coast, but the historic centre, dense and with barely any trees, banks up heat and makes August nights harder than the airport figures suggest.

The year at a glance

The warmest month is July, with a mean maximum of 30.5 °C, and the coldest January, with minima averaging 3.8 °C. About 910 mm fall a year, spread over 111 days of appreciable rain, peaking in November and at its lowest in July. There are 8 days of frost a year and 47 with the maximum above 30 °C.

Month by month

Monthly means over 30 years at Rome. ERA5-Land reanalysis, 1995 to 2024.
Monthly mean	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Maximum (°C)	11.6	12.6	15.1	18.1	22.5	27.3	30.5	30.5	25.5	21.3	16.3	12.6
Minimum (°C)	3.8	4.0	5.9	8.7	12.8	16.9	19.8	20.3	16.8	13.2	9.2	5.3
Rain (mm)	82	80	82	76	62	32	21	27	88	109	142	108
Rain days	10.8	10.0	10.4	10.8	9.1	5.5	3.9	4.8	9.3	11.0	13.7	12.0

The extremes of the series

Across these 30 years the highest temperature was 38.3 °C, on 4 August 2017, and the lowest -10.4 °C, on 28 February 2018. These are reanalysis values, not those of an observatory: they are useful for placing the magnitude, not as an official record.

Where these numbers come from

From ERA5-Land, the reanalysis produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, downloaded from the Copernicus Climate Data Store under a CC-BY licence: hourly temperature and precipitation between 1995-01-01 and 2024-12-06, 30 complete years, in the 41.90°, 12.50° cell. It is a grid of about 9 km covering land only.

The Spanish cities on this site use AEMET’s official normals; there is no single equivalent for ten different countries, so the same global series is used for all of them. That has an advantage: the figures are comparable with one another, computed by the same method over the same period. And a limitation: a reanalysis cannot see the urban heat island, so in the centre of a large city the real minima are usually somewhat higher than those in the table.