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Bologna weather

Emilia-Romagna · 394,843 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:04

Mainly clear
18°
Mainly clear
Feels like 18°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
17 km/h
Humidity
62 %
Pressure
1023 hPa
Clouds
30 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:48 Set 17:08 Day 10 h 20 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
14°11°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ WSW 5 km/h
Humidity 78 %
19:00
Mainly clear
14°
ENE 2
22:00
Clear sky
11°
WSW 5

Bologna forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
5°9°13°16°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed14°9°Thu 29 Oct: max 18° · min 7° · normal 13.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 8° · normal 12.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 16° · min 8° · normal 12.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 13° · min 8° · normal 12.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 12° · min 8° · normal 12.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 14° · min 9° · normal 12.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 14° · min 9° · normal 12.2°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu4°12°19°18°6°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bologna climate: what a normal year looks like

From 15 h 33 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 49 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in July and August; the typical peak is 31 °C in July.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 48 mm and 93 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan8 °C1 °C49 mm
Feb10 °C2 °C67 mm
Mar14 °C5 °C65 mm
Apr18 °C9 °C79 mm
May23 °C13 °C78 mm
Jun28 °C18 °C63 mm
Jul31 °C20 °C50 mm
Aug31 °C20 °C57 mm
Sep25 °C16 °C71 mm
Oct20 °C12 °C79 mm
Nov14 °C8 °C93 mm
Dec9 °C3 °C71 mm
Whole year19 °C10 °C820 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 44.49° N, 11.34° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Bologna: pollution and pollen

3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.524µg/m³
PM1027µg/m³
O₃37µg/m³
NO₂15µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bologna

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bologna, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Bologna

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:59 Set 22:03
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Rome); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bologna

Curious about the weather in Bologna on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Bologna weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 7 °C to 18 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations