Climate and average weather in Ginosa

In Ginosa, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: late April to late July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ginosa typically varies from 6°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 2°C or above 33°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ginosa for warm-weather activities are from late April to late July and mid August to early November.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
74 mm
Driest
Jul
12 mm
Rain / yr
505 mm
77 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
240 m
40.6°N
Clearest
Jul
19% cloud

Ginosa is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

Ginosa 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 April to late July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Ginosa, 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 9 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Ginosa is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 22°C.

The cool season lasts 4.1 months, from November 23 to March 27, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Ginosa is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan126
Feb126
Mar158
Apr1811
May2215
Jun2719
Jul3022
Aug3022
Sep2619
Oct2215
Nov1711
Dec138

Average hourly temperature in Ginosa

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Ginosa 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° / 547.49.43.4
Feb12° / 537.610.43.6
Mar15° / 537.911.74.7
Apr18° / 11°447.8136.0
May22° / 15°276.514.27.5
Jun27° / 19°204.614.87.7
Jul30° / 22°123.114.66.6
Aug30° / 22°133.513.66.4
Sep26° / 19°375.712.37.7
Oct22° / 15°56710.97.3
Nov17° / 11°748.19.75.7
Dec13° / 617.79.24.0

Chance of rain

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

Ginosa gets about 505 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 6.2 months, from around Nov 5 to May 13, peaking in November at about 30% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 13.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 74 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetNov 22 · 30%Jul 13 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan247
Feb278
Mar258
Apr278
May217
Jun155
Jul103
Aug124
Sep196
Oct227
Nov268
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ginosa collects about 505 mm of rain across 77 wet days — roughly 42 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 74 mm, while July is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec545353442720121337567461
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan547
Feb538
Mar538
Apr448
May277
Jun205
Jul123
Aug134
Sep376
Oct567
Nov748
Dec618

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ginosa, 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 13 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around September 28. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 29 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around May 12. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 43% 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 · 96%Nov 25 · 55%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6040
Feb5842
Mar5941
Apr6238
May7129
Jun8515
Jul955
Aug928
Sep7624
Oct6535
Nov5743
Dec5842

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 12, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.47:204:44
Feb10.46:565:19
Mar11.76:135:53
Apr13.05:216:26
May14.24:426:57
Jun14.84:277:20
Jul14.64:407:18
Aug13.65:086:46
Sep12.35:395:55
Oct10.96:115:05
Nov9.76:474:29
Dec9.27:164:22

Sunny days

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

Ginosa averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around May 30 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 12 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 1926 daysFeb 2711 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun20Bright
Jul26Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
Sep18Bright
Oct15Mixed
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 Ginosa, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around May 30 to October 17. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 80% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 18 to May 29, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 17 · 100%Aug 7 · 16%muggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan991000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr928000
May5635900
Jun203236120
Jul72345241
Aug31640374
Sep182736182
Oct40342060
Nov7718400
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Ginosa is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 17. The windiest month is February, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 18 to Oct 28, with August the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 6 · 13 km/hAug 19 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov12calm
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Ginosa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, Ginosa 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 times of year to visit Ginosa for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to late July and again from late August to early November, with a peak score in the first week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 1 · 8.0

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
Jan3.5poor
Feb3.6fair
Mar4.7fair
Apr6.0good
May7.5good
Jun7.7ideal
Jul6.6good
Aug6.4good
Sep7.6ideal
Oct7.3good
Nov5.7good
Dec4.0fair

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 Ginosa for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 11 · 8.9

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 Ginosa, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ginosa sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Ginosa

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 25 km away) is warmest in August at about 26°C and coldest in February near 14°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from May 30 to Nov 1 — about 5.1 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan14Bracing
Feb14Bracing
Mar14Bracing
Apr15Cool
May18Cool
Jun22Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct22Refreshing
Nov19Cool
Dec16Cool

UV index (midday) in Ginosa 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 Ginosa peaks around July 17 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 17UV 9Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr5High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Ginosa

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
Apr60
May72.5
Jun85
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Ginosa 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 Ginosa is worst in April — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.6× the cleanest month (December, 10 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateGoodApr 1416 µg/m³Dec 1310 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb14Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug13Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct12Good
Nov11Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ginosa 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
Jan990
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec990

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. Ginosa banks about 2,543 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)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar41
Apr121
May258
Jun388
Jul486
Aug492
Sep369
Oct255
Nov118
Dec15

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.

Ginosa receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.8 kWh/m² — roughly 75% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 297.3 kWhDec 161.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.1Moderate
Feb3.0Moderate
Mar4.3Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.2Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep4.8Bright
Oct3.4Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.8Dim

Where is Ginosa?

Ginosa sits at 40.6°N, 16.8°E, 240 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Matera, 16 km away.

Topography around Ginosa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ginosa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 223 m around an average of 239 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 516 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,742 m.

The land around Ginosa is covered by grassland (44%) and trees (25%) within 3 km, cropland (48%), trees (25%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (29%), water (26%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
223 m
16 km
516 m
80 km
1,742 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Matera 16 km · Palagiano 24 km · Santeramo in Colle 24 km · Gioia del Colle 28 km · Massafra 30 km · Altamura 33 km · Acquaviva delle Fonti 36 km · Gravina in Puglia 39 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 Ginosa (40.5769°, 16.7566°, elevation 240 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).