Salento
40.35° N, 18.07° E
When to go?
Mean 10 °C, 9 rain days in the month (69 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 10 °C, 8 rain days in the month (58 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 12 °C, 9 rain days in the month (56 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 15 °C, 8 rain days in the month (44 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 19 °C, 5 rain days in the month (35 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 24 °C, 3 rain days in the month (24 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
- Ideal for the seawater at 23 °C
Mean 27 °C, 2 rain days in the month (18 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 25 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 27 °C, 2 rain days in the month (22 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 26 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 23 °C, 6 rain days in the month (62 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
- Ideal for the seawater at 24 °C
Mean 18 °C, 8 rain days in the month (82 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 15 °C, 9 rain days in the month (89 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 11 °C, 9 rain days in the month (70 mm).
Nothing against it.
The best months are April–June, September–November. Ideal for the sea: June–September. Avoid July–August (hot).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Sea temperature: Ionian Sea
Monthly mean sea temperature: Ionian Sea (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Ionian Sea (°C)
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +0.9 °C; in the last ten years by +1.5 °C. Warmest year: 2024 (+2.3 °C), coldest: 1976 (−0.9 °C).
June and July warmed the most (+1.7 and +1.6 °C), February the least (+0.4 °C). The warm season (above the annual mean of then, 17 °C) begins 4 days earlier and ends 7 days later.
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: no clear trend, dry and wet years alternate as before.
The sea, then and now
+0.5 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.