Climate and average weather in Ribera

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

Best: early May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ribera typically varies from 8°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 5°C or above 31°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 Ribera for warm-weather activities is from early May to late October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
75 mm
Driest
Jul
3 mm
Rain / yr
503 mm
75 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
223 m
37.5°N
Clearest
Jul
7% cloud

Ribera is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

Ribera 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 May to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.4 months, from June 12 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Ribera is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 22°C.

The cool season lasts 4.1 months, from November 29 to April 2, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Ribera is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan138
Feb138
Mar159
Apr1811
May2115
Jun2519
Jul2821
Aug2822
Sep2520
Oct2217
Nov1813
Dec1510

Average hourly temperature in Ribera

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

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

Ribera 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
Jan13° / 668.89.74.0
Feb13° / 599.310.64.0
Mar15° / 538.211.75.0
Apr18° / 11°457.612.96.2
May21° / 15°204.1147.9
Jun25° / 19°8214.58.8
Jul28° / 21°30.714.38.7
Aug28° / 22°71.713.47.9
Sep25° / 20°365.712.37.9
Oct22° / 17°637.8117.4
Nov18° / 13°759.6106.0
Dec15° / 10°709.99.54.6

Chance of rain

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

Ribera gets about 503 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 7.3 months, from around Sep 21 to May 1, peaking in February at about 35% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 5.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 75 mm over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 3 · 35%Jul 5 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb339
Mar278
Apr248
May144
Jun72
Jul21
Aug62
Sep196
Oct258
Nov3210
Dec3110

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ribera collects about 503 mm of rain across 75 wet days — roughly 42 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 75 mm, while July is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec665953452083736637570
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan669
Feb599
Mar538
Apr458
May204
Jun82
Jul31
Aug72
Sep366
Oct638
Nov7510
Dec7010

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ribera, 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 3 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around September 28. 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 29 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around May 2. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 39% 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 16 · 100%Nov 27 · 59%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb6238
Mar6733
Apr7129
May7723
Jun8911
Jul991
Aug964
Sep8119
Oct6931
Nov6238
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 13, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan9.77:265:07
Feb10.67:055:38
Mar11.76:266:08
Apr12.95:386:36
May14.05:037:03
Jun14.54:507:24
Jul14.35:027:23
Aug13.45:276:55
Sep12.35:546:08
Oct11.06:215:22
Nov10.06:544:51
Dec9.57:204:46

Sunny days

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

Ribera averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.6 months, from around May 8 to Sep 23. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 12 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2030 daysJan 2811 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr16Bright
May19Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
Sep20Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around June 6 to October 26. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to June 5, 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 5 · 100%Aug 9 · 1%oppressivemuggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan991000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr937000
May5539600
Jun94041100
Jul1946404
Aug02275714
Sep31439404
Oct173537100
Nov6231700
Dec964000

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 Ribera is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 4 to May 12. The windiest month is February, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 13 to Nov 3, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 27 · 14 km/hAug 17 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Best time to visit Ribera

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Ribera 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 Ribera for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late October, 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
Jan4.0fair
Feb4.0fair
Mar5.0fair
Apr6.3good
May7.9ideal
Jun8.8ideal
Jul8.6ideal
Aug7.9ideal
Sep7.9ideal
Oct7.3good
Nov6.0good
Dec4.6fair

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 Ribera for hot-weather activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 1 · 9.3

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 Ribera, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ribera sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Ribera

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 17 km away) is warmest in August at about 25°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 8 to Nov 8 — about 5.1 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan15Cool
Feb15Bracing
Mar15Bracing
Apr16Cool
May18Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul24Refreshing
Aug25Warm
Sep24Warm
Oct22Refreshing
Nov19Cool
Dec17Cool

UV index (midday) in Ribera 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 Ribera peaks around July 16 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighModerateVery highVery highHighModerateJul 16UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr4Moderate
May5High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Ribera

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
Apr4.50
May6.50
Jun85
Jul8.56
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Ribera 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 Ribera is worst in April — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 1615 µg/m³Dec 159 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul11Good
Aug12Good
Sep11Good
Oct11Good
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ribera 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. Ribera banks about 2,646 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)
Jan23
Feb18
Mar65
Apr131
May247
Jun356
Jul445
Aug462
Sep375
Oct290
Nov165
Dec69

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.

Ribera receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.7 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 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 17.7 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.9Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.1Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Ribera?

Ribera sits at 37.5°N, 13.3°E, 223 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Sciacca, 16 km away.

Topography around Ribera

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ribera has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 290 m around an average of 163 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,138 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,961 m.

The land around Ribera is covered by grassland (52%) and trees (34%) within 3 km, grassland (51%) and water (22%) within 16 km, and water (36%) and grassland (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
290 m
16 km
1,138 m
80 km
1,961 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Sciacca 16 km · Porto Empedocle 33 km · Agrigento 34 km · Favara 40 km · Castelvetrano 47 km · Canicattì 54 km · Palma di Montechiaro 56 km · Alcamo 60 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 Ribera (37.4977°, 13.2668°, elevation 223 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).