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Catania weather

Sicily · 311,584 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:57

Air: Good Low storm risk · Sat, Sun

18°

Mainly clear

Feels like 18°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

16 km/h

Humidity

70 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

47 %

Storm

Rise 06:21 Set 17:05 Day 10 h 43 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Partly cloudy

18°17°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ NE 6 km/h

Gusts 16 km/h

Humidity 70 %

19:00

18°

NE 6

22:00

17°

N 4

Catania 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)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Catania climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 600 mm of rain — less than 82% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in July and August; the typical peak is 32 °C in August.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 7 °C.

From 14 h 45 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 34 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	14 °C	7 °C	80 mm
Feb	15 °C	7 °C	64 mm
Mar	17 °C	9 °C	60 mm
Apr	19 °C	11 °C	50 mm
May	24 °C	15 °C	31 mm
Jun	28 °C	19 °C	21 mm
Jul	32 °C	22 °C	10 mm
Aug	32 °C	22 °C	16 mm
Sep	28 °C	19 °C	57 mm
Oct	23 °C	16 °C	69 mm
Nov	19 °C	12 °C	71 mm
Dec	16 °C	9 °C	68 mm
Whole year	22 °C	14 °C	600 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.49° N, 15.07° 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 Catania: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

O₃30µg/m³

NO₂17µg/m³

SO₂2µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone

BirchNone

GrassNone

MugwortNone

OliveNone

RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Catania

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Catania, 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 Catania

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:14 Set 21:17

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 Catania

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

Catania weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Catania, Sicily: 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 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 22 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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.

Other big cities nearby

Palermo 165 km 19°

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