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Palermo weather

Sicily · 648,260 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:03

Air: Fair

19°

Clear sky

Feels like 19°C

Wind

2 km/h

Gusts

8 km/h

Humidity

58 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

7 %

Storm

Rise 06:29 Set 17:11 Day 10 h 41 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

19°18°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h

Humidity 58 %

19:00

19°

ENE 2

22:00

18°

SSW 4

Palermo 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)

Palermo climate: what a normal year looks like

Swimmers find the warmest sea in August (27 °C) and the coolest in February (14 °C).

From 14 h 49 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 30 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 650 mm of rain — less than 79% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 7 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 20 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	13 °C	7 °C	73 mm	15 °C
Feb	13 °C	7 °C	74 mm	14 °C
Mar	15 °C	9 °C	69 mm	14 °C
Apr	18 °C	11 °C	63 mm	15 °C
May	21 °C	15 °C	38 mm	18 °C
Jun	26 °C	19 °C	17 mm	22 °C
Jul	29 °C	22 °C	7 mm	26 °C
Aug	29 °C	23 °C	19 mm	27 °C
Sep	26 °C	20 °C	64 mm	25 °C
Oct	22 °C	16 °C	85 mm	23 °C
Nov	18 °C	13 °C	69 mm	19 °C
Dec	15 °C	10 °C	76 mm	17 °C
Whole year	20 °C	14 °C	650 mm	20 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 38.12° N, 13.37° 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 Palermo: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.54µg/m³

PM108µg/m³

O₃71µg/m³

NO₂14µg/m³

SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone

BirchNone

GrassLow

MugwortNone

OliveNone

RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Palermo

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

No open weather radar covers Palermo yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Palermo

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:19 Set 21:26

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.

Sea and tides near Palermo

Tide station used: Palermo

🌊 Sea surface

22.1 °C

satellite, 29/10

Sea state

Rippled

waves 0.2 m

Period

4 s

Swell

0.2 m

TodayThu 29/10

Low tide 04:23 0.2 m

High tide 11:06 0.5 m

Low tide 17:00 0.2 m

High tide 23:15 0.5 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

Low tide 05:07 0.2 m

High tide 11:58 0.5 m

Low tide 18:08 0.3 m

SatSat 31/10

High tide 00:14 0.4 m

Low tide 05:56 0.2 m

High tide 13:00 0.5 m

Low tide 19:51 0.3 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 01:21 0.4 m

Low tide 06:56 0.2 m

High tide 14:14 0.5 m

Low tide 21:30 0.3 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Palermo

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

Palermo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Palermo, Sicily: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 21 °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, plus the tide times for Palermo.

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