Climate and average weather in Bressanone

In Bressanone, the summers are mild, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bressanone typically varies from -11°C to 19°C, and is rarely below -19°C or above 25°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Bressanone for warm-weather activities is from mid June to mid September.

Hottest
Jul
19°
Coldest
Jan
-11°
Wettest
Jun
105 mm
Driest
Feb
38 mm
Rain / yr
911 mm
141 wet days
Daylight
8.3–15.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
559 m
46.7°N
Clearest
Jan
53% cloud

Bressanone is historic centre of the city of Brixen in South Tyrol.

Air quality
Good
PM10 17.2 µg/m³ · 2018

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Bressanone weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bressanone, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 27 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 15°C. The hottest month of the year in Bressanone is July, with an average high of 19°C and low of 8°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 20 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 2°C. The coldest month of the year in Bressanone is January, with an average low of -11°C and high of -2°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

-20°-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-2-11
Feb0-9
Mar4-5
Apr8-2
May133
Jun176
Jul198
Aug198
Sep155
Oct101
Nov4-4
Dec-1-10

How hot and cold Bressanone really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -11°C (around January 18), with roughly 187 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 50 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-2-2-11-11
Feb00-9-9
Mar44-7-5
Apr88-3-2
May131323
Jun171766
Jul191988
Aug191988
Sep151555
Oct101011
Nov44-4-4
Dec-1-1-10-10

Average hourly temperature in Bressanone

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 19°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -11°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bressanone weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-2° / -11°418.19.38.80.0
Feb / -9°388.19.2100.0
Mar / -5°559.59.311.60.0
Apr / -2°76138.113.31.1
May13° / 9917.32.914.83.0
Jun17° / 10516.70.715.64.7
Jul19° / 9414.90.215.35.6
Aug19° / 9314.20.3145.6
Sep15° / 7310.31.312.44.3
Oct10° / 879.93.810.62.1
Nov / -4°8910.38.39.20.1
Dec-1° / -10°5999.88.40.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bressanone gets about 911 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.3 months, from around Apr 3 to Sep 9, peaking in June at about 59% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 24.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 105 mm over about 17 wet days; February is the driest, with 38 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 5 · 59%Jan 24 · 25%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb298
Mar3010
Apr4413
May5517
Jun5617
Jul4815
Aug4514
Sep3610
Oct3210
Nov3410
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bressanone collects about 911 mm of rain across 141 wet days — roughly 76 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 105 mm, while February is the driest at just 38 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4138557699105949373878959
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4189
Feb3889
Mar55109
Apr76138
May99173
Jun105171
Jul94150
Aug93140
Sep73101
Oct87104
Nov89108
Dec59910

Snow in Bressanone

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Bressanone averages about 63 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Aug 25 to Jun 25 — about 10 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 10 days of snow and an estimated 42 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 345 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan944
Feb942
Mar942
Apr847
May312
Jun12
Jul01
Aug00
Sep110
Oct426
Nov868
Dec1052

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bressanone, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 19 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around September 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 53% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 29 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around June 18. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 61% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 3 · 54%May 3 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb4852
Mar4852
Apr4258
May3961
Jun4555
Jul5248
Aug5347
Sep4951
Oct4456
Nov4159
Dec4753

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 20, brings about 15 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 20, only 8 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.88:004:45
Feb10.07:285:28
Mar11.66:356:11
Apr13.35:336:54
May14.84:457:34
Jun15.64:258:02
Jul15.34:407:58
Aug14.05:177:18
Sep12.45:586:18
Oct10.66:395:17
Nov9.27:254:32
Dec8.47:584:21

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bressanone averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Nov 18 to Mar 28. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 6 sunny days — about 50% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 1512 daysMay 75 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul8Gloomy
Aug8Mixed
Sep8Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec10Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Bressanone, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul991
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Bressanone is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 6 · 5 km/hAug 15 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Bressanone

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bressanone throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early September, Bressanone is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bressanone for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 23 · 5.7

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.0poor
Apr1.1poor
May3.0poor
Jun4.6fair
Jul5.6good
Aug5.6good
Sep4.3fair
Oct2.1poor
Nov0.2poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bressanone for hot-weather activities is from mid July to mid August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 29 · 3.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bressanone, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 19°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Bressanone sees daytime highs around 19°C and nights near 8°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bressanone by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bressanone peaks around July 14 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 9Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Bressanone

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar5.50
Apr7.54
May84.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Bressanone by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Bressanone is worst in January — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (September, 11 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateJan 1718 µg/m³Sep 1911 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct11Good
Nov12Good
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Bressanone typically lasts about 180 days, from around April 26 to October 22 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 26 to September 18.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 810%Apr 2650%May 2690%Sep 1890%Oct 2250%Nov 2810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan231
Feb428
Mar1331
Apr3330
May8126
Jun980
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep9115
Oct6131
Nov2230
Dec431

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bressanone banks about 286 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

0100200300400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun54
Jul117
Aug106
Sep9
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bressanone receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 11 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.4 kWh/m² — roughly 76% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 265.9 kWhDec 211.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.7Dim
Feb2.6Moderate
Mar4.0Moderate
Apr5.1Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Bressanone?

Bressanone sits at 46.7°N, 11.7°E, 559 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Bolzano, 35 km away.

Hötting

Topography around Bressanone

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bressanone.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bressanone has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,032 m around an average of 840 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,477 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,527 m.

The land around Bressanone is covered by trees (61%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and grassland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (53%) and grassland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,032 m
16 km
2,477 m
80 km
3,527 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewatermoss and lichen
Nearby: Bolzano 35 km · Merano 38 km · Eppan 42 km · Igls 60 km · Wilten 64 km · Pradl 64 km · Innsbruck 64 km · Hötting 65 km

Italy travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F / L
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 69% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$43,309
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
97%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.6
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 513
Religion
Christian 81%unaffiliated 13%Muslim 5%other 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bressanone (46.715°, 11.656°, elevation 559 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).