Average Rainfall for Italy in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities and vacation spots in Italy. Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets this month and for the normal amount of precipitation.

The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled more than a millimetre (0.04 inches).

The month's total rainfall is an average of weather data collected during 1971 to 2000.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Northeast, Northwest, Central , South and Italy's Mediterranean Islands.

Northeastern Italy

This section takes in the regions of Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto. Three weather stations on the list are located at over 2000 metres (6560 feet) elevation: Paganella and Passo Rolle in the Dolomites and Monte Cimone of the Apennine Mountains.

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
5	Bologna	2.1	53
8	Bolzano	3.4	86
5	Cervia	2.0	51
8	Monte Cimone	2.7	69
10	Paganella	3.5	89
12	Passo Rolle	4.6	116
6	Rimini	2.4	61
10	Tarvisio	4.7	119
6	Trieste	3.3	85
6	Venice (Venezia)	2.6	65
6	Verona	3.2	82
7	Vicenza	3.1	80

Northwestern Italy

The cities here are in the regions of Liguria, Lombardy (Lombardia) and Piedmont.

August averages for total rainfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
7	Bergamo	3.9	100
6	Brescia	2.9	74
5	Genoa (Genova)	2.7	69
7	Milan (Milano)	3.5	89
8	Turin (Torino)	3.0	76

Central Italy

The regions of central Italy include Lazio and Tuscany (Toscana) along the west coast, Umbria in the interior and Marche on the east coast. The highest weather station of this group sits at 1875 metres (6150 feet) on Monte Terminillo.

Average amount of rain in August
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
5	Ancona	3.0	76
5	Arezzo	1.8	45
2	Civitavecchia	0.9	23
5	Florence (Firenze)	2.2	56
2	Monte Argentario	0.8	21
6	Monte Terminillo	2.2	56
5	Perugia	2.0	50
4	Pisa	1.9	49
2	Ponza Island	0.7	18
3	Rome (Roma)	1.3	34
5	Volterra	1.9	49

Southern Italy

The regions covered here make up Italy's boot, ranging from Abruzzo in the north to Calabria in the south and include Apulia (Puglia), Campania and Molise. Capo Palinuro is in the National Park of Cilento on Italy's west coast.

Precipitation totals for August
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
4	Bari	1.2	30
3	Capo Palinuro	0.9	22
8	Foggia	1.1	29
3	Lecce	1.4	36
4	Naples (Napoli)	1.4	36
5	Pescara	2.2	56
2	Reggio Calabria	0.5	12
2	Santa Maria di Leuca	0.9	23
4	Termoli	1.1	28

Mediterranean Islands

The weather data given in this table are for the Italian islands of Sardinia (Sardegna) and Sicily (Sicilia). Also included are two smaller islands: Ustica located north of Sicily, and Pantelleria to the southwest of Sicily.

Total precipitation during August
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
2	Alghero, Sardinia	1.0	25
1	Cagliari, Sardinia	0.3	8
2	Catania, Sicily	0.5	13
3	Messina, Sicily	1.0	26
2	Palermo, Sicily	1.3	32
1	Pantelleria Island	0.1	4
2	Ustica Island	0.7	18