Climate and average weather in San Cataldo

In San Cataldo, the summers are hot, 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 San Cataldo typically varies from 3°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 34°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 San Cataldo for warm-weather activities are from late April to late July and late August to early November.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
62 mm
Driest
Jul
5 mm
Rain / yr
465 mm
74 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
625 m
37.5°N
Clearest
Jul
10% cloud

San Cataldo is chief town of the homonym municipality.

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

San Cataldo 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 San Cataldo, 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 8 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in San Cataldo is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 4.1 months, from November 25 to March 28, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in San Cataldo is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan123
Feb133
Mar155
Apr188
May2312
Jun2716
Jul3018
Aug3019
Sep2616
Oct2213
Nov178
Dec135

Average hourly temperature in San Cataldo

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

San Cataldo 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° / 5389.73.5
Feb13° / 538.110.63.6
Mar15° / 498.611.74.7
Apr18° / 478.312.96.1
May23° / 12°254.6147.9
Jun27° / 16°173.314.57.7
Jul30° / 18°5114.36.6
Aug30° / 19°112.413.46.3
Sep26° / 16°375.812.37.6
Oct22° / 13°627.4117.4
Nov17° / 568.1105.9
Dec13° / 517.99.54.1

Chance of rain

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

San Cataldo gets about 465 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 7.5 months, from around Sep 17 to May 3, peaking in March at about 31% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 13.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 62 mm over about 7 wet days; July is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetMar 4 · 31%Jul 13 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb308
Mar289
Apr268
May165
Jun113
Jul41
Aug82
Sep196
Oct247
Nov278
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, San Cataldo collects about 465 mm of rain across 74 wet days — roughly 39 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 62 mm, while July is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec53534947251751137625651
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan538
Feb538
Mar499
Apr478
May255
Jun173
Jul51
Aug112
Sep376
Oct627
Nov568
Dec518

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In San Cataldo, 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 6 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around September 29. 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 30 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 5. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 45% 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 18 · 99%Jan 24 · 52%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb5842
Mar6337
Apr6634
May7426
Jun8713
Jul991
Aug964
Sep7921
Oct6634
Nov5941
Dec5743

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 14, 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)
Jan9.77:235:04
Feb10.67:025:36
Mar11.76:236:05
Apr12.95:356:33
May14.05:007:01
Jun14.54:477:21
Jul14.34:597:20
Aug13.45:256:52
Sep12.35:516:05
Oct11.06:195:20
Nov10.06:514:48
Dec9.57:174:43

Sunny days

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

San Cataldo averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around May 9 to Sep 22. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 10 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 1729 daysDec 2310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May17Bright
Jun23Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep18Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 San Cataldo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around June 27 to October 18. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 38% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 19 to June 26, 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 27 · 100%Aug 31 · 58%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May93700
Jun653150
Jul3546191
Aug2141344
Sep2641303
Oct5435100
Nov90910
Dec99100

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 San Cataldo is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 1 · 10 km/hAug 20 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit San Cataldo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, San Cataldo 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 San Cataldo 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 last week of May.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 28 · 8.2

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
Jan3.5poor
Feb3.5fair
Mar4.7fair
Apr6.2good
May7.9ideal
Jun7.7ideal
Jul6.6good
Aug6.4good
Sep7.5ideal
Oct7.4good
Nov5.9good
Dec4.1fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 8 · 9.2

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 San Cataldo, 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 and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, San Cataldo sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near San Cataldo

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 41 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 5 to Nov 12 — about 5.3 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
Aug26Warm
Sep24Warm
Oct22Refreshing
Nov20Cool
Dec17Cool

UV index (midday) in San Cataldo 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 San Cataldo peaks around July 15 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighModerateHighVery highVery highHighModerateJul 15UV 10Dec 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr5Moderate
May5High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in San Cataldo

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
Feb3.50
Mar5.50
Apr50
May6.50
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in San Cataldo 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 San Cataldo is worst in April — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.6× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodApr 1717 µg/m³Dec 1411 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb14Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

San Cataldo is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 26 to December 26 (304 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2690%Dec 2690%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8631
Feb8625
Mar960
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec945

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. San Cataldo banks about 2,190 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar6
Apr79
May217
Jun347
Jul440
Aug447
Sep336
Oct230
Nov86
Dec2

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.

San Cataldo 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 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

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

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.7 kWhDec 182.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is San Cataldo?

San Cataldo sits at 37.5°N, 14.0°E, 625 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Caltanissetta, 7.0 km away.

Topography around San Cataldo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around San Cataldo has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 368 m around an average of 555 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 765 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,958 m.

The land around San Cataldo is covered by grassland (45%) and trees (28%) within 3 km, cropland (45%) and grassland (37%) within 16 km, and grassland (34%), water (28%) and cropland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
368 m
16 km
765 m
80 km
1,958 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Caltanissetta 7.0 km · Canicattì 19 km · Enna 27 km · Favara 34 km · Piazza Armerina 36 km · Palma di Montechiaro 38 km · Agrigento 41 km · Licata 43 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 San Cataldo (37.4841°, 13.9854°, elevation 625 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).