Ideal weather days in Rome
The best time to visit Rome for warm, dry weather is May to June and August to September, with 23 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Rome's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to June and August to September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Rome, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold121
- Too wet55
- Too windy29
- Too hot19
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), Rome averaged 187 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 26 a month, 91 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April, May and November (up to 18 a month, 103 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 121 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 55 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in February to March and October to December. A day can fail more than one test.
Rome weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15 °C 59 °F | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 16 °C 60 °F | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 63 °F | 9 | 2 | 5 | 8 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 67 °F | 5 | 2 | 10 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 24 °C 74 °F | 6 | 1 | 9 | 25 of 31 |
| June | 28 °C 82 °F | 2 | 0 | 11 | 25 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 90 °F | 2 | 2 | 14 | 20 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 89 °F | 2 | 1 | 10 | 23 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 83 °F | 4 | 1 | 6 | 26 of 30 |
| October | 24 °C 75 °F | 9 | 6 | 8 | 19 of 31 |
| November | 20 °C 67 °F | 8 | 3 | 2 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 15 °C 59 °F | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 65 | 29 | 90 | 187 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 177 warm, dry days
- 2024 194 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Rome for good weather?
The best time to visit Rome for warm, dry weather is May to June and August to September, with 23 to 26 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 26 a month, 91 a year). Counted from measured days at Fiumicino station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Rome?
On average 65 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (9 rain days), the driest July (2).
How many sunny days does Rome get a year?
About 90 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 July (14).
How warm does Rome get?
The median daily high ranged from 15 °C (59 °F) in January to 32 °C (90 °F) in July.
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Source: Fiumicino weather station (16242099999), 23 km from the centre of Rome, 5 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.