Climate and average weather in Giarre

In Giarre, the summers are humid, warm, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: late May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Giarre typically varies from 9°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 29°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
146 mm
Driest
Jul
13 mm
Rain / yr
990 mm
113 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
210 m
37.7°N
Clearest
Jul
12% cloud

Giarre is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

Giarre 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 late May to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from June 15 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Giarre is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 4.2 months, from November 30 to April 7, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Giarre is January, with an average low of 9°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan129
Feb129
Mar1310
Apr1512
May1915
Jun2319
Jul2622
Aug2623
Sep2320
Oct2017
Nov1714
Dec1310

Average hourly temperature in Giarre

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Giarre 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
Jan12° / 126139.73.1
Feb12° / 9810.810.53.1
Mar13° / 10°9211.211.73.8
Apr15° / 12°7010.112.94.8
May19° / 15°365.8147.0
Jun23° / 19°243.814.68.4
Jul26° / 22°132.514.38.9
Aug26° / 23°224.113.58.3
Sep23° / 20°10711.712.37.0
Oct20° / 17°14613116.0
Nov17° / 14°13613.6104.9
Dec13° / 10°12013.19.43.6

Chance of rain

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

Giarre gets about 990 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 7.6 months, from around Sep 7 to Apr 26, peaking in November at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 2.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 146 mm over about 13 wet days; July is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 8 · 46%Jul 2 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb3911
Mar3611
Apr3310
May206
Jun124
Jul83
Aug144
Sep3712
Oct4313
Nov4514
Dec4213

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Giarre collects about 990 mm of rain across 113 wet days — roughly 83 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 146 mm, while July is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12698927036241322107146136120
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan12613
Feb9811
Mar9211
Apr7010
May366
Jun244
Jul133
Aug224
Sep10712
Oct14613
Nov13614
Dec12013

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Giarre, 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 7 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around September 20. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 98% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 21 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around May 6. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 41% 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 14 · 99%Jan 21 · 57%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5941
Feb6337
Mar6238
Apr6337
May7327
Jun8614
Jul982
Aug946
Sep7525
Oct6337
Nov6040
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 11, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.77:194:58
Feb10.56:575:30
Mar11.76:186:00
Apr12.95:306:29
May14.04:556:56
Jun14.64:427:17
Jul14.34:547:16
Aug13.55:196:47
Sep12.35:466:01
Oct11.06:145:15
Nov10.06:474:42
Dec9.47:134:38

Sunny days

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

Giarre averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around May 14 to Sep 13. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 12 sunny days — about 56% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2528 daysJan 2511 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May17Bright
Jun22Bright
Jul29Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep16Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov12Mixed
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 Giarre, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around June 3 to October 24. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 25 to June 2, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 2 · 100%Aug 12 · 1%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr955000
May4944700
Jun43148160
Jul0428635
Aug01176913
Sep31342393
Oct18363970
Nov6629500
Dec973000

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 Giarre is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 30 · 11 km/hSep 11 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Giarre

In seasonPeak

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

Giarre's rainy season runs September–April, 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 Giarre

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Giarre 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 Giarre for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 1 · 9.0

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
Jan3.1poor
Feb3.1poor
Mar3.8fair
Apr4.9fair
May6.9good
Jun8.4ideal
Jul8.9ideal
Aug8.3ideal
Sep7.0good
Oct6.0good
Nov4.9fair
Dec3.7fair

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 Giarre for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 30 · 8.4

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 Giarre, 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 26°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Giarre sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 23°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 4 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Giarre

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

The sea at the nearest coast (about 20 km away) is warmest in August at about 26°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 2 to Nov 11 — about 5.4 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan15Cool
Feb15Bracing
Mar15Bracing
Apr16Cool
May18Cool
Jun22Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct23Refreshing
Nov20Cool
Dec17Cool

UV index (midday) in Giarre 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 Giarre peaks around July 15 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighHighVery highVery highHighModerateJul 15UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr5Moderate
May6High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Giarre

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 6 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
Feb30
Mar5.50
Apr5.50
May6.50
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.52.5
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Giarre 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 Giarre is worst in April — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodApr 2217 µg/m³Dec 1511 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May17Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Giarre 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. Giarre banks about 2,444 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan13
Feb7
Mar48
Apr108
May220
Jun335
Jul432
Aug451
Sep354
Oct268
Nov150
Dec57

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.

Giarre receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 71% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 307.5 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.6Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep4.9Bright
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.0Moderate

Where is Giarre?

Giarre sits at 37.7°N, 15.2°E, 210 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Acireale, 13 km away.

Topography around Giarre

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Giarre has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 417 m around an average of 126 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,167 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,306 m.

The land around Giarre is covered by trees (66%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, trees (41%) and water (38%) within 16 km, and water (43%) and trees (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
417 m
16 km
3,167 m
80 km
3,306 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Acireale 13 km · Aci Catena 14 km · Taormina 17 km · San Giovanni la Punta 18 km · Aci Castello 19 km · Mascalucia 20 km · Gravina di Catania 21 km · Belpasso 23 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 Giarre (37.7244°, 15.1816°, elevation 210 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. 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).