Climate and average weather in Gallipoli

In Gallipoli, the summers are muggy, warm, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, breezy, and mostly clear.

Best: mid May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gallipoli typically varies from 10°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 29°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Gallipoli for warm-weather activities is from mid May to early October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Feb
10°
Wettest
Nov
115 mm
Driest
Jul
8 mm
Rain / yr
658 mm
77 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
12 m
40.1°N
Clearest
Jul
11% cloud

Gallipoli is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

Gallipoli 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 May to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from June 16 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Gallipoli is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 4.4 months, from December 2 to April 13, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Gallipoli is February, with an average low of 10°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 2°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1310
Feb1210
Mar1411
Apr1613
May1917
Jun2321
Jul2624
Aug2724
Sep2422
Oct2118
Nov1715
Dec1412

Average hourly temperature in Gallipoli

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 August afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 10°C.

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

Gallipoli weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan13° / 10°739.29.53.6
Feb12° / 10°618.110.43.6
Mar14° / 11°61811.74.3
Apr16° / 13°447135.4
May19° / 17°274.214.27.4
Jun23° / 21°122.114.88.8
Jul26° / 24°81.214.69.0
Aug27° / 24°121.813.68.6
Sep24° / 22°596.512.37.9
Oct21° / 18°998.510.97.0
Nov17° / 15°115109.85.6
Dec14° / 12°8610.19.24.2

Chance of rain

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

Gallipoli gets about 658 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.3 months, from around Sep 15 to Apr 23, peaking in November at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 10.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 115 mm over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 24 · 36%Jul 10 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan309
Feb298
Mar268
Apr237
May144
Jun72
Jul41
Aug72
Sep217
Oct279
Nov3310
Dec3210

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gallipoli collects about 658 mm of rain across 77 wet days — roughly 55 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 115 mm, while July is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec736161442712812599911586
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan739
Feb618
Mar618
Apr447
May274
Jun122
Jul81
Aug122
Sep597
Oct999
Nov11510
Dec8610

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around May 8 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around September 29. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 30 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 7. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 39% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 15 · 97%Jan 21 · 58%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb6238
Mar6535
Apr6634
May7624
Jun8812
Jul973
Aug955
Sep8020
Oct6832
Nov6139
Dec6139

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 22, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 22, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.57:144:41
Feb10.46:505:15
Mar11.76:085:48
Apr13.05:176:20
May14.24:386:51
Jun14.84:237:13
Jul14.64:367:11
Aug13.65:046:40
Sep12.35:355:50
Oct10.96:055:01
Nov9.86:414:26
Dec9.27:094:19

Sunny days

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

Gallipoli averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around May 17 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is November, down near 13 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2028 daysNov 2612 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr16Bright
May19Bright
Jun23Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
Sep20Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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 Gallipoli, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around May 18 to October 27. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 28 to May 17, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 6 · 100%Aug 15 · 1%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9820000
Feb9910000
Mar9640000
Apr74252000
May234230600
Jun3123238130
Jul051540373
Aug031036456
Sep7152832171
Oct2324351620
Nov543312100
Dec9090000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Gallipoli is typically light breeze, near 18 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Oct 22 to Apr 16. The windiest month is December, averaging about 22 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 17 to Oct 21, with August the calmest month at about 15 km/h.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezywindyDec 27 · 22 km/hAug 16 · 15 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan21breezy
Feb22breezy
Mar20light breeze
Apr18light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep17light breeze
Oct18light breeze
Nov21breezy
Dec22breezy

Hazard calendar for Gallipoli

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Gallipoli's rainy season runs September–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Gallipoli

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Gallipoli 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 Gallipoli for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to early October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 27 · 9.1

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar4.3fair
Apr5.4fair
May7.3good
Jun8.8ideal
Jul9.0ideal
Aug8.6ideal
Sep7.9ideal
Oct7.0good
Nov5.7good
Dec4.2fair

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 Gallipoli for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 10 · 8.8

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 Gallipoli, 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 August (highs near 27°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around February (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer, rain gear and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Gallipoli sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 24°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes.

Sea temperature near Gallipoli

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in August at about 26°C and coldest in February near 13°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from May 30 to Oct 30 — about 5.1 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan14Bracing
Feb13Bracing
Mar14Bracing
Apr15Cool
May18Cool
Jun22Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct22Refreshing
Nov18Cool
Dec16Cool

UV index (midday) in Gallipoli 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 Gallipoli peaks around July 16 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 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 16UV 9Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Gallipoli

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
Mar50
Apr6.50
May73
Jun8.55
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gallipoli is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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. Gallipoli banks about 2,807 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan43
Feb34
Mar75
Apr134
May250
Jun368
Jul466
Aug485
Sep389
Oct296
Nov180
Dec86

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.

Gallipoli receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.9 kWh/m² — roughly 74% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 287.5 kWhDec 171.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.2Moderate
Feb3.1Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.7Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep4.8Bright
Oct3.4Moderate
Nov2.3Moderate
Dec1.8Dim

Where is Gallipoli?

Gallipoli sits at 40.1°N, 18.0°E, 12 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Nardò, 14 km away.

Topography around Gallipoli

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gallipoli has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 55 m around an average of 6 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 199 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 406 m.

The land around Gallipoli is covered by water (69%) within 3 km, water (53%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and water (64%) within 80 km.

3 km
55 m
16 km
199 m
80 km
406 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Nardò 14 km · Casarano 15 km · Galatina 20 km · Copertino 24 km · Lecce 37 km · Manduria 49 km · Sava 54 km · Mesagne 58 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 Gallipoli (40.0559°, 17.9909°, elevation 12 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).