Today's weather for Milan, Italy22nd May 2008 18:50

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Weather Overview for Milan

Milan is one of Italy’s largest and most metropolitan cities. Famed for his long history of fashion and design, Milan is renowned for its stylish and up market demeanor. While the large majority of Italy plays host to a comfortable Mediterranean climate, Milan’s climate is characterized by humid subtropical weather conditions.

The best word to sum up Milan’s weather is variety. In fact, if you look at where Milan sits in the following lists you will gain a fairly good idea at just how changeable the weather in Milan is across a year. Milan is the 4^th hottest capital city in Europe whilst also exercising the 6^th most days below freezing. It is the second wettest city in Europe, whilst also playing host to 343 days of fog per year.. this all combines to make Milan top the list of European cities with the greatest weather variety!

Milan experiences a large average temperature difference between summer and winter. this climate has it all- there is snowfall in winter, high annual rain fall, hot days in summer, cold days in winter, dry sunny days and windy wet days.

Europe’s fashion capital is humid for much of the year, making winters damp and summers muggy, so keep this in mind when choosing your designer silk outfit. Annual the city has average relative humidity of 75% but it can hit to 80’s come summer time. The humidity and high precipitation is why Milan experiences, an average 49 thunderstorms per year!

Summer

Summer in Milan sees an average daily temperature of about 21°c, with July and August being the hottest months witnessing average maximums of 28 to 29 degrees. Rainfall is low in July but picks up again by August.

Summer in Milan, like most of Italy is peak tourist season so expect packed hotels and busy cafes. Keep in mind though that come August time a lot of the locals flee the city and head to coastal destinations so to escape the searing inland heat the Milan experiences. Throughout the height of summer the mercury sits above 30 degrees for many days on end, not helped by the humidity, so locals head coastal for a break from these sometimes uncomfortable conditions.

Winter

Milan weather can get very chilly in the height of winter, particularly in the evenings. It city does receive snowfall though on average only 7 days of snow per year. Average daily temperature throughout December and January sits at about 1 to 2 degrees, with chilly minimums of -3 to -4 degrees. Rainfall remains steady and constant throughout winter, and weather can get somewhat disturbed coming into February.

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