Climate of Italy

The climate of Italy is highly diverse. In most of the inland northern and central regions, the climate ranges from humid subtropical to humid continental and oceanic. The climate of the Po valley geographical region is mostly humid subtropical, with cool winters and hot summers.^[1]^[2] The coastal areas of Liguria, Tuscany and most of the South experience a Mediterranean climate according to the Köppen climate classification.

Between the north and south there can be a considerable difference in temperature, above all during the winter: on some winter days it can be −2 °C (28 °F) and snowing in Milan, while it is 8 °C (46.4 °F) in Rome and 20 °C (68 °F) in Palermo. Temperature differences are less extreme in the summer. On 11 August 2021, an agricultural monitoring station near Syracuse recorded 48.8 °C (119.8 °F) which constitutes the official record of the highest temperature in Europe according to the World Meteorological Organization.^[3]

^ Adriana Rigutti, Meteorologia, Giunti, p. 95, 2009.
^ Thomas A. Blair, Climatology: General and Regional, Prentice Hall pp. 131–132
^ Cite error: The named reference wmo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Rigutti-1] Adriana Rigutti, Meteorologia, Giunti, p. 95, 2009.

[Blair-2] Thomas A. Blair, Climatology: General and Regional, Prentice Hall pp. 131–132

[wmo-3] Cite error: The named reference wmo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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