Ideal weather days in Florence
The best time to visit Florence for warm, dry weather is April, May and September, with 20 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Florence's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April, May and September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Florence, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold126
- Too wet83
- Too hot52
- Too windy2
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Florence averaged 144 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Italy, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and September (up to 17 a month, 73 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March and April (up to 18 a month, 92 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 126 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 83 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March and October to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Florence weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 °C 56 °F | 11 | 1 | 5 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 15 °C 59 °F | 7 | 0 | 5 | 4 of 28 |
| March | 18 °C 64 °F | 10 | 0 | 2 | 12 of 31 |
| April | 21 °C 70 °F | 7 | 0 | 7 | 20 of 30 |
| May | 25 °C 77 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 23 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 87 °F | 5 | 0 | 9 | 18 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 95 °F | 3 | 0 | 7 | 11 of 31 |
| August | 37 °C 98 °F | 2 | 0 | 10 | 8 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 85 °F | 5 | 0 | 5 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 24 °C 75 °F | 14 | 0 | 4 | 18 of 31 |
| November | 18 °C 64 °F | 10 | 1 | 7 | 8 of 30 |
| December | 13 °C 55 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 92 | 2 | 69 | 144 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 146 warm, dry days
- 2024 137 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Florence for good weather?
The best time to visit Florence for warm, dry weather is April, May and September, with 20 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and September (up to 17 a month, 73 a year). Counted from measured days at Firenze station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Florence?
On average 92 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (14 rain days), the driest August (2).
How many sunny days does Florence get a year?
About 69 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (10).
How warm does Florence get?
The median daily high ranged from 13 °C (55 °F) in December to 37 °C (98 °F) in August.
Nearby
- Venice200 km155 days
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- Milan250 km152 days
- Turin320 km152 days
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- Ljubljana360 km, Slovenia119 days
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Source: Firenze weather station (16170099999), 6 km from the centre of Florence, 44 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.