Ideal weather days in Palermo
The best time to visit Palermo for warm, dry weather is May, June and August, with 23 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Palermo's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May, June and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Palermo, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold103
- Too windy78
- Too wet56
- Too hot16
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), Palermo averaged 185 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 July and August (up to 25 a month, 81 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May and October (up to 15 a month, 82 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 103 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 78 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in March and November to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Palermo weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16 °C 61 °F | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 of 31 |
| February | 16 °C 60 °F | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 63 °F | 8 | 10 | 10 | 7 of 31 |
| April | 19 °C 66 °F | 5 | 7 | 11 | 18 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 6 | 2 | 13 | 25 of 31 |
| June | 28 °C 82 °F | 2 | 1 | 17 | 27 of 30 |
| July | 31 °C 87 °F | 1 | 2 | 15 | 20 of 31 |
| August | 30 °C 85 °F | 2 | 3 | 17 | 24 of 31 |
| September | 27 °C 81 °F | 4 | 7 | 11 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 77 °F | 3 | 6 | 14 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 21 °C 70 °F | 9 | 12 | 8 | 15 of 30 |
| December | 17 °C 62 °F | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 of 31 |
| Year | 67 | 78 | 134 | 185 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 161 warm, dry days
- 2024 192 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Palermo for good weather?
The best time to visit Palermo for warm, dry weather is May, June and August, with 23 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July and August (up to 25 a month, 81 a year). Counted from measured days at Palermo station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Palermo?
On average 67 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (10 rain days), the driest July (1).
How many sunny days does Palermo get a year?
About 134 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 June (17).
How warm does Palermo get?
The median daily high ranged from 16 °C (60 °F) in February to 31 °C (87 °F) in July.
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Source: Palermo weather station (16405099999), 24 km from the centre of Palermo, 20 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.