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Mascalucia climate by month
What the weather is like
Mascalucia has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 13° and lows of 5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 16°.
About 781 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (126 mm, 15 wet days) and July the driest (13 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in July to 34% in January.
The sea reaches about 26° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Rome, the capital, Mascalucia is 2.1° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 4° · February
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 4% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 26° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 45 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 35 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 13° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 27° | 30° | 30° | 27° | 23° | 18° | 14° |
| Average low | 5° | 4° | 6° | 8° | 12° | 16° | 19° | 19° | 17° | 14° | 9° | 6° |
| Precipitation | 112 mm | 61 mm | 68 mm | 45 mm | 33 mm | 17 mm | 13 mm | 21 mm | 70 mm | 95 mm | 120 mm | 126 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 13.5 | 12.2 | 10.7 | 8.2 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 10.2 | 11 | 13.6 | 14.7 |
| Cloud cover | 34% | 30% | 29% | 28% | 22% | 12% | 4% | 6% | 18% | 29% | 33% | 34% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 17° |
| Daylight | 9h 51 | 10h 49 | 11h 55 | 13h 09 | 14h 11 | 14h 45 | 14h 31 | 13h 38 | 12h 28 | 11h 16 | 10h 10 | 9h 35 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | ●● | ● | – | ● | ● | – | – |
| Month score | 40 | 46 | 62 | 81 | 87 | 82 | 73 | 69 | 69 | 74 | 66 | 44 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent