Annual Average Humidity in Italy

The average humidity year round is listed below for cities and other places throughout Italy. The tables give the averages of daily readings for the highest and lowest relative humidity levels.

The numbers here are averages for the years 1971 to 2000.

Relative humidity measures the actual amount of moisture in the air as a percentage of the maximum amount of moisture the air can hold.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Northeast, Northwest, Central , South and Italy's Mediterranean Islands.

Northeastern Italy

This section takes in the regions of Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto. Three weather stations on the list are located at over 2000 metres (6560 feet) elevation: Paganella and Passo Rolle in the Dolomites and Monte Cimone of the Apennine Mountains.

Average annual relative humidity (%)

Place	High	Low
Bologna	92	55
Bolzano	92	45
Cervia	97	59
Monte Cimone	92	55
Paganella	88	56
Passo Rolle	90	48
Rimini	96	59
Tarvisio	96	56
Trieste	79	50
Venice (Venezia)	93	57
Verona	97	58
Vicenza	95	53

Northwestern Italy

The cities here are in the regions of Liguria, Lombardy (Lombardia) and Piedmont.

Average humidity (%) year round

Place	High	Low
Bergamo	91	51
Brescia	96	54
Genoa (Genova)	82	54
Milan (Milano)	94	56
Turin (Torino)	93	54

Central Italy

The regions of central Italy include Lazio and Tuscany (Toscana) along the west coast, Umbria in the interior and Marche on the east coast. The highest weather station of this group sits at 1875 metres (6150 feet) on Monte Terminillo.

Average humidity (%) daily

Place	High	Low
Ancona	94	57
Arezzo	94	47
Civitavecchia	86	62
Florence (Firenze)	92	48
Monte Argentario	92	53
Monte Terminillo	93	60
Perugia	96	52
Pisa	94	51
Ponza Island	90	60
Rome (Roma)	97	49
Volterra	89	57

Southern Italy

The regions covered here make up Italy's boot, ranging from Abruzzo in the north to Calabria in the south and include Apulia (Puglia), Campania and Molise. Capo Palinuro is in the National Park of Cilento on Italy's west coast.

Annual average humidity levels (%)

Place	High	Low
Bari	90	52
Capo Palinuro	88	53
Foggia	95	47
Lecce	96	52
Naples (Napoli)	94	52
Pescara	94	51
Reggio Calabria	89	51
Santa Maria di Leuca	91	60
Termoli	91	63

Mediterranean Islands

The weather data given in this table are for the Italian islands of Sardinia (Sardegna) and Sicily (Sicilia). Also included are two smaller islands: Ustica located north of Sicily, and Pantelleria to the southwest of Sicily.

Average relative humidity (%) for the year

Place	High	Low
Alghero, Sardinia	93	57
Cagliari, Sardinia	95	51
Catania, Sicily	94	43
Messina, Sicily	87	51
Palermo, Sicily	81	44
Pantelleria Island	91	56
Ustica Island	94	61