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Sciacca climate by month
What the weather is like
Sciacca has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 28° and nights 22°. February is the coolest month, with highs of 15° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 607 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (82 mm, 13 wet days) and July the driest (3 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 3% in July to 31% in December.
The sea reaches about 25° 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, Sciacca is 4.1° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- 8° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 3% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 25° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 44 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 36 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 | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 28° | 28° | 26° | 23° | 20° | 16° |
| Average low | 9° | 8° | 10° | 12° | 15° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 82 mm | 57 mm | 52 mm | 44 mm | 20 mm | 8 mm | 3 mm | 6 mm | 49 mm | 83 mm | 101 mm | 102 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.6 | 11.3 | 9.9 | 8.7 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 9 | 10.7 | 12.1 | 12.6 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 27% | 26% | 25% | 21% | 12% | 3% | 5% | 16% | 25% | 29% | 31% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 25° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 17° |
| Daylight | 9h 51 | 10h 49 | 11h 55 | 13h 09 | 14h 11 | 14h 44 | 14h 31 | 13h 38 | 12h 28 | 11h 16 | 10h 11 | 9h 36 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | ●● | ● | ● | ● | ● | – | – |
| Month score | 54 | 56 | 67 | 79 | 89 | 93 | 86 | 78 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 60 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent