Climate and average weather in Terni

In Terni, 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 Terni typically varies from 1°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 33°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 Terni for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
129 mm
Driest
Jul
30 mm
Rain / yr
963 mm
118 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
130 m
42.6°N
Clearest
Jul
27% cloud
Air quality
Elevated
PM2.5 17.3 µg/m³ · 2019

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

Terni 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 Terni, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.1 months, from June 11 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Terni is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 19 to March 12, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Terni 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 12°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan81
Feb91
Mar123
Apr166
May2010
Jun2514
Jul2817
Aug2817
Sep2313
Oct1810
Nov136
Dec92

How hot and cold Terni 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 31), with roughly 79 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
Mar121213
Apr161656
May20201010
Jun25251414
Jul28281617
Aug28281717
Sep23231313
Oct1818910
Nov131346
Dec9902

Average hourly temperature in Terni

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

Terni 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 / 719.539.21.3
Feb / 81103.410.31.8
Mar12° / 9210.9311.63.4
Apr16° / 98130.913.14.5
May20° / 10°8311.40.114.46.2
Jun25° / 14°538.8015.17.3
Jul28° / 17°305.7014.87.2
Aug28° / 17°336.1013.76.8
Sep23° / 13°829.4012.37.1
Oct18° / 10°10510.50.110.85.9
Nov13° / 12912.419.63.4
Dec / 10710.72.88.91.6

Chance of rain

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

Terni gets about 963 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 2.8 months, from around Mar 21 to Jun 12, peaking in April at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 30.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 129 mm over about 12 wet days; July is the driest, with 30 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 26 · 45%Jul 30 · 18%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb3610
Mar3511
Apr4313
May3711
Jun289
Jul186
Aug206
Sep329
Oct3511
Nov3912
Dec3511

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Terni collects about 963 mm of rain across 118 wet days — roughly 80 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 129 mm, while July is the driest at just 30 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec718192988353303382105129107
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan71103
Feb81103
Mar92113
Apr98131
May83110
Jun5390
Jul3060
Aug3360
Sep8290
Oct105110
Nov129121
Dec107113

Snow in Terni

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.

Terni averages about 14 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 9 to Apr 25 — about 5.5 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 13 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 48 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 25
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan310
Feb313
Mar37
Apr15
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov14
Dec39

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Terni, 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 September 30. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 1 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 23. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 53% 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 19 · 89%Nov 18 · 46%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb5347
Mar5347
Apr5050
May5644
Jun7426
Jul8812
Aug8515
Sep6733
Oct5743
Nov4753
Dec5149

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 11, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.27:434:55
Feb10.37:165:32
Mar11.66:306:08
Apr13.15:356:44
May14.44:537:18
Jun15.14:377:43
Jul14.84:507:40
Aug13.75:217:06
Sep12.35:556:12
Oct10.86:305:19
Nov9.67:094:41
Dec8.97:394:32

Sunny days

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

Terni averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Jun 11 to Sep 20. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 10 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 1823 daysApr 299 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul23Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov10Mixed
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 Terni, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around June 7 to September 23. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 19% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 24 to June 6, 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 24 · 100%Aug 3 · 77%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May90100
Jun52408
Jul354817
Aug344719
Sep60337
Oct88110
Nov9910
Dec10000

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 3 · 7 km/hAug 21 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Terni

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Terni 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 Terni 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 27 · 7.7

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
Feb1.8poor
Mar3.3poor
Apr4.5fair
May6.2good
Jun7.3good
Jul7.2good
Aug6.8good
Sep7.0good
Oct5.9good
Nov3.4poor
Dec1.7poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 8.3

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 Terni, 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 8°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Terni 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 Terni 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 Terni peaks around July 15 at about 10 (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 highModerateLowJul 15UV 10Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5High
Apr5Moderate
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Terni

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 9 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
Feb00
Mar50
Apr5.50
May7.53
Jun8.55
Jul96
Aug7.54.5
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Terni 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 Terni is worst in April — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Terni's WHO annual average of 17.3 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1021 µg/m³Sep 1715 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Terni is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 26 to November 20 (240 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2690%Nov 2090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6031
Feb5928
Mar8427
Apr970
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov9312
Dec7131

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. Terni banks about 1,607 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
Apr27
May154
Jun279
Jul381
Aug389
Sep245
Oct121
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.

Terni receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.5 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 19. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.6 kWh/m² — roughly 77% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 17.0 kWhDec 191.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.8Dim
Feb2.7Moderate
Mar4.0Moderate
Apr5.1Bright
May6.1Intense
Jun6.8Intense
Jul6.9Intense
Aug6.1Intense
Sep4.5Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov1.9Dim
Dec1.5Dim

Where is Terni?

Terni sits at 42.6°N, 12.6°E, 130 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Spoleto, 21 km away.

Topography around Terni

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Terni has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m around an average of 159 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,226 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,840 m.

The land around Terni is covered by trees (44%) and artificial surfaces (40%) within 3 km, trees (74%) within 16 km, and trees (64%) within 80 km.

3 km
220 m
16 km
1,226 m
80 km
2,840 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Spoleto 21 km · Rieti 25 km · Todi 31 km · Foligno 44 km · Viterbo 47 km · Assisi 56 km · Bastia umbra 56 km · Monterotondo 57 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 Terni (42.5633°, 12.6433°, elevation 130 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).