Climate and average weather in Montevarchi

In Montevarchi, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Montevarchi typically varies from 1°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 33°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 Montevarchi for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
28°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
122 mm
Driest
Jul
35 mm
Rain / yr
910 mm
115 wet days
Daylight
8.8–15.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
144 m
43.5°N
Clearest
Jul
30% cloud

Montevarchi is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

Montevarchi 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Montevarchi, 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 7 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Montevarchi is July, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 18 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Montevarchi is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 8°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan81
Feb91
Mar134
Apr167
May2111
Jun2515
Jul2817
Aug2817
Sep2413
Oct1810
Nov136
Dec92

How hot and cold Montevarchi 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 -2°C (around January 30), with roughly 78 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)
Jan88-11
Feb99-11
Mar131324
Apr161657
May21211011
Jun25251515
Jul28281717
Aug28281717
Sep24241313
Oct1818910
Nov131346
Dec9902

Average hourly temperature in Montevarchi

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Montevarchi 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 / 628.71.89.11.3
Feb / 728.81.710.22.0
Mar13° / 749.51.111.63.7
Apr16° / 8712.30.113.24.9
May21° / 11°7611.1014.56.4
Jun25° / 15°538.2015.27.3
Jul28° / 17°355.7014.97.1
Aug28° / 17°406.9013.86.8
Sep24° / 13°919.5012.37.0
Oct18° / 10°10911.4010.85.8
Nov13° / 12212.10.69.53.2
Dec / 9111.11.48.81.6

Chance of rain

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

Montevarchi gets about 910 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 1.9 months, from around Mar 26 to May 23, peaking in April at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 19.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 122 mm over about 12 wet days; July is the driest, with 35 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 29 · 43%Jul 19 · 18%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb319
Mar3010
Apr4112
May3611
Jun278
Jul186
Aug237
Sep3310
Oct3611
Nov4012
Dec3511

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Montevarchi collects about 910 mm of rain across 115 wet days — roughly 76 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 122 mm, while July is the driest at just 35 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec62727487765335409110912291
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan6292
Feb7292
Mar74101
Apr87120
May76110
Jun5380
Jul3560
Aug4070
Sep91100
Oct109110
Nov122121
Dec91111

Snow in Montevarchi

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.

Montevarchi averages about 7 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 13 to Apr 2 — about 4.6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.8 days of snow and an estimated 5 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 25 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan25
Feb27
Mar13
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov12
Dec17

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Montevarchi, 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 23 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 85% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 3 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 60% 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 20 · 86%Nov 15 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4258
Feb4852
Mar5149
Apr5050
May5446
Jun7030
Jul8515
Aug8317
Sep6634
Oct5248
Nov4060
Dec4357

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 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.17:504:56
Feb10.27:225:35
Mar11.66:346:12
Apr13.25:386:50
May14.54:557:25
Jun15.24:377:50
Jul14.94:517:47
Aug13.85:247:12
Sep12.35:596:17
Oct10.86:355:22
Nov9.57:164:42
Dec8.87:474:33

Sunny days

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

Montevarchi averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Jun 10 to Sep 22. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is November, down near 8 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 1922 daysNov 137 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun15Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov8Gloomy
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 Montevarchi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around June 9 to September 26. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 50% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 27 to June 8, 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 19 · 100%Aug 2 · 43%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May821710
Jun3544192
Jul1835416
Aug1336428
Sep4536181
Oct762040
Nov97300
Dec100000

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 Montevarchi is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 6 · 8 km/hAug 9 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Montevarchi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 29 · 7.6

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
Jan1.3poor
Feb2.0poor
Mar3.7fair
Apr4.9fair
May6.3good
Jun7.3good
Jul7.1good
Aug6.8good
Sep7.0good
Oct5.8good
Nov3.3poor
Dec1.6poor

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 Montevarchi 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 27 · 8.2

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 Montevarchi, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 8°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Montevarchi sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Montevarchi 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 Montevarchi 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
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Montevarchi

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
Apr6.52
May72.5
Jun8.55
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54
Sep50
Oct20
Nov00
Dec00

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

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateMar 2016 µg/m³Nov 1712 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug13Moderate
Sep12Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec12Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Montevarchi is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 22 to November 17 (241 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2290%Nov 1790%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6231
Feb6328
Mar8625
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov9115
Dec6931

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. Montevarchi banks about 1,674 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr43
May174
Jun294
Jul389
Aug389
Sep253
Oct122
Nov10
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.

Montevarchi receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.4 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 19. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.4 kWh/m² — roughly 80% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.0 kWhDec 211.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.6Dim
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr5.0Bright
May6.0Bright
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.9Intense
Aug6.0Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct2.8Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Montevarchi?

Montevarchi sits at 43.5°N, 11.6°E, 144 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is San Giovanni Valdarno, 6.0 km away.

Topography around Montevarchi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Montevarchi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 119 m around an average of 174 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,476 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,724 m.

The land around Montevarchi is covered by trees (53%) within 3 km, trees (77%) within 16 km, and trees (71%) within 80 km.

3 km
119 m
16 km
1,476 m
80 km
1,724 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: San Giovanni Valdarno 6.0 km · Arezzo 26 km · Siena 30 km · Poggibonsi 35 km · Campo di Marte 37 km · Colle di Val d'Elsa 38 km · Florence 39 km · Scandicci 40 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 Montevarchi (43.5252°, 11.5724°, elevation 144 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).