Climate and average weather in Palagonia

In Palagonia, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: early April to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Palagonia typically varies from 5°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 1°C or above 36°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 Palagonia for warm-weather activities are from early April to mid June and mid September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
32°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
79 mm
Driest
Jul
4 mm
Rain / yr
551 mm
69 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
200 m
37.3°N
Clearest
Jul
9% cloud

Palagonia is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

Palagonia 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 early April to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Palagonia, 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 8 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Palagonia is July, with an average high of 32°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 25 to March 24, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Palagonia is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan145
Feb145
Mar167
Apr2010
May2413
Jun2918
Jul3221
Aug3221
Sep2818
Oct2314
Nov1910
Dec157

How hot and cold Palagonia 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 hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Palagonia feels like about 33°C (around July 31). About 36 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan141435
Feb141435
Mar161657
Apr1920810
May24241313
Jun29291818
Jul32322121
Aug32322121
Sep28281818
Oct23231414
Nov1919910
Dec151557

Average hourly temperature in Palagonia

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Palagonia 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
Jan14° / 707.89.74.2
Feb14° / 58710.64.5
Mar16° / 517.111.75.7
Apr20° / 10°437.212.96.9
May24° / 13°234.1148.1
Jun29° / 18°152.314.57.0
Jul32° / 21°40.914.35.4
Aug32° / 21°122.413.45.2
Sep28° / 18°515.812.37.0
Oct23° / 14°798.1117.4
Nov19° / 10°778.6106.3
Dec15° / 6789.54.8

Chance of rain

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

Palagonia gets about 551 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 7.6 months, from around Sep 14 to May 3, peaking in November at about 29% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 6.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 79 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetNov 26 · 29%Jul 6 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb257
Mar247
Apr237
May144
Jun72
Jul31
Aug82
Sep196
Oct268
Nov289
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Palagonia collects about 551 mm of rain across 69 wet days — roughly 46 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 79 mm, while July is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec70585143231541251797767
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan708
Feb587
Mar517
Apr437
May234
Jun152
Jul41
Aug122
Sep516
Oct798
Nov779
Dec678

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Palagonia, 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 5 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around September 24. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 25 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around May 4. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 38% 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 · 100%Nov 28 · 59%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb6436
Mar6634
Apr6733
May7624
Jun8911
Jul991
Aug964
Sep8020
Oct6634
Nov6238
Dec6238

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 16, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan9.77:205:01
Feb10.66:585:33
Mar11.76:206:02
Apr12.95:326:30
May14.04:576:57
Jun14.54:457:18
Jul14.34:577:17
Aug13.45:226:48
Sep12.35:486:02
Oct11.06:155:17
Nov10.06:474:45
Dec9.57:144:40

Sunny days

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

Palagonia 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 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around May 10 to Sep 21. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 13 sunny days — about 54% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2329 daysJan 2412 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr15Bright
May19Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
Sep20Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around June 20 to October 27. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 64% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 28 to June 19, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 7 · 100%Sep 1 · 28%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr964000
May7821100
Jun39451510
Jul15413850
Aug53046181
Sep92746181
Oct26412840
Nov7224400
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 Palagonia is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Nov 12 to May 23. The windiest month is March, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 24 to Nov 11, with August the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 3 · 10 km/hAug 15 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Palagonia

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid April, Palagonia is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Palagonia for general outdoor tourist activities run from early April to late June and again from mid September to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of May.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 16 · 8.3

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
Jan4.2fair
Feb4.5fair
Mar5.7good
Apr6.9good
May8.1ideal
Jun7.0good
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.3fair
Sep6.9good
Oct7.3good
Nov6.3good
Dec4.9fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 20 · 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 Palagonia, 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 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Palagonia sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Palagonia

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 34 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 Palagonia 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 Palagonia peaks around July 15 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 23 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighModerateVery highVery highHighModerateJul 15UV 10Dec 23UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr5Moderate
May5High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Palagonia

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
May60
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Palagonia 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 Palagonia 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 day

Palagonia is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan960
Feb960
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec980

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)

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. Palagonia banks about 2,697 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)
Jan0
Feb1
Mar48
Apr135
May274
Jun405
Jul505
Aug511
Sep389
Oct276
Nov131
Dec22

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.

Palagonia receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 7.6 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 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 297.6 kWhDec 162.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov2.6Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Palagonia?

Palagonia sits at 37.3°N, 14.7°E, 200 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Scordia, 9.0 km away.

Topography around Palagonia

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Palagonia has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 416 m around an average of 199 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 684 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,307 m.

The land around Palagonia is covered by trees (46%) and grassland (33%) within 3 km, cropland (42%), trees (28%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and water (29%), grassland (28%) and cropland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
416 m
16 km
684 m
80 km
3,307 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Scordia 9.0 km · Caltagirone 23 km · Lentini 23 km · Paternò 30 km · Misterbianco 31 km · Piazza Armerina 34 km · Catania 34 km · Belpasso 36 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 Palagonia (37.3295°, 14.7447°, elevation 200 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).