Local Reviews to Plan Your Tour of Sicily

Sicily can be visited all the year. The mild climate allow you not to find difficult about the weather.

The rains are not much and winter is not very cold, in fact you could see people doing a swim in the sea also in january.

Summer is very hot, and the best thing to do is choise Sicily as a summer resort, bacuse visitign the cities under the hto sun will be very hard.

The best period to visit monuments and cities is spring

The Sicilian climate is usually mild, as is typically Mediterranean. In winter, the temperature is warmer than the rest of Italy and Europe. Indeed, during the winter, the rain is present for a few months. In autumn and spring, the weather is pleasantly warm.

The summer is very hot, especially in July and August, or when the Sirocco wind, coming from Africa, causes an increase in temperatures during some periods of the year.

In Sicily, minimum temperatures are between 5 ° C and 15 ° C from January to May and from October to December, while the highest in recent months are between 10 C and 25 C.

From June to September, minimum temperatures are between 15 C and 20 ° C and the maximum between 25 ° C and 35 ° C.

The most sunny months are from May to September, with an average of 250 hours of sunshine per month, except July who has 350. The rain is rarely from November to May, with an average of 50mm of rain per month.

The capital is Palermo, which is located on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The weather here is usually sunny and there is little rain.

The second largest city in Sicily is Catania. And 'often hottest other Italian cities and is located on the eastern coast of the island, on the Ionian Sea.

About visiting Catania, can not miss the spectacle of Etna. Here, the climatic conditions are different compared to Catania. During the summer months, climate Etna is more cold then coastal and it's likely to find low temperatures.

Then, during an excursion on the mountain, we must have the right equipment. Of course, in winter, the mountain is covered with snow from November to March.

The Ionian Sea is also the city of Messina, considered colder then the other cities on the island because of its position close to the mountains (Peloritani).