Climate and average weather in Mantua

In Mantua, the summers are hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mantua typically varies from 1°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 35°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Mantua for warm-weather activities are from mid April to late June and late August to late October.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
98 mm
Driest
Jan
48 mm
Rain / yr
905 mm
108 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
19 m
45.2°N
Clearest
Jul
40% cloud

Mantua 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 April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 27 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Mantua is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 18 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Mantua is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan71
Feb102
Mar156
Apr1910
May2314
Jun2818
Jul3021
Aug3020
Sep2516
Oct1912
Nov127
Dec82

How hot and cold Mantua 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 -1°C (around January 25), with roughly 60 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-11
Feb101002
Mar151546
Apr1919910
May23231414
Jun28281818
Jul30302121
Aug30302020
Sep25251616
Oct19191112
Nov121257
Dec8802

Average hourly temperature in Mantua

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

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

Mantua 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 / 486.81.191.2
Feb10° / 536.81.210.12.3
Mar15° / 598.10.411.64.7
Apr19° / 10°8311.5013.25.8
May23° / 14°9111.2014.66.7
Jun28° / 18°7910.1015.46.3
Jul30° / 21°668.1015.15.3
Aug30° / 20°789.4013.95.5
Sep25° / 16°959012.37.1
Oct19° / 12°949.3010.76.0
Nov12° / 989.80.29.33.3
Dec / 637.818.61.3

Chance of rain

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

Mantua gets about 905 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 2.9 months, from around Mar 29 to Jun 23, peaking in May at about 41% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 23.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 98 mm over about 10 wet days; January is the driest, with 48 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 1 · 41%Jan 23 · 21%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb247
Mar268
Apr3812
May3711
Jun3310
Jul278
Aug309
Sep319
Oct309
Nov3210
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mantua collects about 905 mm of rain across 108 wet days — roughly 75 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 98 mm, while January is the driest at just 48 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec485359839179667895949863
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4871
Feb5371
Mar5980
Apr83120
May91110
Jun79100
Jul6680
Aug7890
Sep9590
Oct9490
Nov98100
Dec6381

Snow in Mantua

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.

Mantua averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 26 to Mar 11 — about 3.5 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.2 day of snow and an estimated 4 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 17 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 1
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan14
Feb15
Mar01
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec15

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mantua, 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 24 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 1. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 2 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around March 12. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 58% 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 17 · 77%Nov 26 · 41%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb5347
Mar5545
Apr5248
May5248
Jun6634
Jul7723
Aug7426
Sep6634
Oct5149
Nov4258
Dec4654

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 10, brings about 15 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.07:584:54
Feb10.17:285:35
Mar11.66:386:15
Apr13.25:396:55
May14.64:537:33
Jun15.44:348:00
Jul15.14:497:56
Aug13.95:237:18
Sep12.36:026:20
Oct10.76:415:23
Nov9.37:234:41
Dec8.67:564:30

Sunny days

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

Mantua averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Jun 11 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is November, down near 9 sunny days — about 48% fewer than the July peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJul 1917 daysNov 99 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul17Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep15Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov9Mixed
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 Mantua, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around May 29 to September 27. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 74% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 28 to May 28, 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 10 · 100%Aug 6 · 22%muggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr964000
May6230800
Jun203235121
Jul82239283
Aug71945272
Sep32312970
Oct6923700
Nov964000
Dec1000000

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 Mantua is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 4 · 7 km/hDec 26 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Mantua

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Mantua 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 Mantua for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid April to late June and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 17 · 7.2

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
Jan1.2poor
Feb2.4poor
Mar4.6fair
Apr5.8good
May6.6good
Jun6.3good
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.5good
Sep7.0good
Oct6.0good
Nov3.3poor
Dec1.3poor

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 Mantua for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 29 · 7.4

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 Mantua, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 7°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Mantua sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mantua 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 Mantua peaks around July 14 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 8Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Mantua

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 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
Mar4.50
Apr72.5
May7.53
Jun84
Jul84.5
Aug73
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Mantua 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 Mantua is worst in January — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJan 1726 µg/m³Aug 2017 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb23Moderate
Mar25Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May20Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug17Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct20Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Mantua is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 4 to November 25 (267 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 490%Nov 2590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6531
Feb7428
Mar964
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov955
Dec7431

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. Mantua banks about 2,224 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar18
Apr120
May270
Jun388
Jul477
Aug467
Sep312
Oct156
Nov16
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.

Mantua receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 80% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 286.5 kWhDec 201.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr4.9Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.5Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.2Dim

Where is Mantua?

Mantua sits at 45.2°N, 10.8°E, 19 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Suzzara, 19 km away.

Topography around Mantua

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mantua has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 23 m around an average of 22 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 51 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,218 m.

The land around Mantua is covered by artificial surfaces (31%) within 3 km, cropland (59%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and cropland (48%) and trees (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
23 m
16 km
51 m
80 km
2,218 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Suzzara 19 km · Villafranca di Verona 22 km · San Giovanni Lupatoto 31 km · Viadana 33 km · Verona 35 km · Bussolengo 35 km · Castiglione delle Stiviere 35 km · Mirandola 37 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 Mantua (45.1603°, 10.7978°, elevation 19 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).