Vicenza Climate Patterns

Summers (June-August) are hot and humid, routinely in the low thirties Celsius, with the stillness typical of an inland valley city. The arcaded stretches of the centre help, and the hills immediately south are consistently a few degrees cooler, which is precisely why the villas are up there.

Winters (December-February) are cold and frequently foggy. Po Valley fog can sit for days; it is atmospheric on Corso Palladio and genuinely obscuring on the Monte Berico climb, where the view is the reason to go up.

Rain is spread across the year with peaks in spring and autumn, and the two rivers meeting in the centre have flooded the city more than once -- most seriously in 2010, when the Bacchiglione put parts of the centre under water.

Snow reaches the plain occasionally and the Berici hills more often, though rarely for long.