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Bologna weather by month

Bologna runs from about 4°C in January to 27°C in July, with October the wettest month at 177 mm.

warmest month

July

27°C

coolest month

January

4°C

wettest month

October

177 mm

worst air month

January

32 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Bologna
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January4°C78 mm185 h32
February9°C86 mm191 h20
March11°C70 mm236 h20
April14°C66 mm308 h13
May17°C97 mm339 h7
June22°C127 mm376 h7
July27°C56 mm435 h6
August27°C38 mm378 h8
September20°C167 mm274 h6
October16°C177 mm172 h9
November8°C11 mm207 h18
December4°C98 mm187 h31

About 3,288 hours of sun a year. Roughly 110 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.