Hill towns, vineyards and Renaissance cities across central Italy, best walked rather than endured. Daytime highs in Tuscany run from about 9 °C in January to 29 °C in July, an annual range of roughly 20 °C.
Measured against a city trip, the conditions hold up April to June and September. April is the most consistent single month: highs near 17 °C, nights around 7 °C, and roughly 87 mm of rain across the month.
What rules months out here is temperature and rainfall, not any composite judgement. Rainfall is sharply seasonal: October averages 132 mm against 33 mm in July, so the wet season is the real planning constraint rather than heat or cold. January is the weakest month on these criteria.
Visitor numbers follow their own curve. Recorded overnight stays peak in the two weeks from 13 August at about 2.3 times an average fortnight for this region, against 0.3 times in January. April is the useful case: it is the most consistent month on the weather and still sits at 0.8 times average on occupancy. On the separate question of how much tourism the area carries all year, Florence sits in the 31st densest of 294 European regions, at 12.6 overnight stays per resident a year.
March and August sit just outside the window, with part of the month working and part not. These are usually the interesting weeks: conditions are close to the peak-season answer while prices and crowds are not. On recorded overnight stays that holds: March and August run about 37% below the August peak. The map lets you check them fortnight by fortnight rather than trusting a monthly average.
What Tuscany is known for
- Florence holds the Uffizi, the Accademia's David and Brunelleschi's dome, all within a few streets
- Siena's Palio horse race runs twice each summer around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo
- The Val d'Orcia's cypress-lined ridges are a UNESCO landscape, essentially a Renaissance painting made real
- Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile all come from within an hour of Siena
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 2 | 86 | 10.5 |
| February | 11 | 2 | 74 | 10.0 |
| March | 13 | 4 | 87 | 10.4 |
| April | 17 | 7 | 87 | 12.5 |
| May | 21 | 11 | 80 | 11.4 |
| June | 26 | 16 | 51 | 8.0 |
| July | 29 | 18 | 33 | 5.9 |
| August | 28 | 18 | 50 | 7.0 |
| September | 24 | 15 | 93 | 10.1 |
| October | 19 | 11 | 132 | 11.3 |
| November | 14 | 7 | 128 | 13.4 |
| December | 10 | 3 | 111 | 12.3 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a city trip is met across at least half the month.
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Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Montepulciano and San Gimignano, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.