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Agrigento: brown concrete building under blue sky during daytime
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Best time to visit Agrigento

Italy · Europe

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Agrigento

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  1. Agrigento in January: ok
  2. Agrigento in February: good
  3. Agrigento in March: good
  4. Agrigento in April: sweet spot
  5. Agrigento in May: sweet spot, busy
  6. Agrigento in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Agrigento in July: sweet spot
  8. Agrigento in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Agrigento in September: good, busy
  10. Agrigento in October: good, busy
  11. Agrigento in November: ok
  12. Agrigento in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Apr–Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 27C max, 1 rainy day. Sep is the next best.

Things to do in Agrigento

  • Valley of the Temples One of Sicily’s most important archaeological parks and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Valley of the Temples spans several kilometres of ancient Greek ruins.
  • Temple of Concordia Ancient temple in Agrigento, Italy
  • Temple of the Olympian Zeus Ancient temple in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
  • Temple of Heracles Ancient temple in Agrigento, Italy
  • Temple of Juno Ancient temple in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
  • Cattedrale di San Gerlando The large cathedral is uphill in the northwestern corner of the town center on Via Duomo.
  • Mount Cammarata Mountain in Italy

Tours and tickets in Agrigento

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Agrigento), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

MonthMax °CRain days HumiditySun h/day VerdictWhy
Jan 13° 8d 80% 8.2h ok 13C max, 8 rainy days
Feb 14° 7d 79% 9.0h good 14C max, 7 rainy days
Mar 15° 7d 77% 10.1h good 15C max, 7 rainy days
Apr 18° 5d 73% 10.7h sweet spot 18C max, 5 rainy days
May 21° 4d 69% 12.2h sweet spot busy busier than usual
Jun 27° 1d 62% 13.5h sweet spot busy busier than usual
Jul 30° 0d 58% 13.8h sweet spot 30C max, 0 rainy days
Aug 30° 0d 63% 12.6h sweet spot busy busier than usual
Sep 26° 4d 72% 11.1h goodbusy busier than usual
Oct 22° 7d 78% 9.4h goodbusy busier than usual
Nov 18° 10d 81% 8.1h ok 18C max, 10 rainy days
Dec 15° 7d 80% 7.9h ok 15C max, 7 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the Valley of the Temples: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest in May, June, August, September and October; quietest from November to March.

Then and now

Agrigento's December days now average 14.5°C, 1.2°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 2 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1981–9012.1°12.6°14.4°17.6°21.7°26.0°29.4°29.1°26.3°21.9°16.6°13.3°
2017–2612.9°13.5°15.0°17.6°21.4°26.9°29.7°29.6°26.3°21.9°17.7°14.5°
Change+0.8°+0.9°+0.6°+0.0°-0.3°+0.8°+0.3°+0.5°-0.0°+0.1°+1.1°+1.2°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

Fly into Palermo (PMO), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Palermo.

Palermo (PMO) the drive is not measured yet
Catania (CTA) the drive is not measured yet

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Agrigento is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and F and L plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Italy: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

  • Paying — By law, shops, cafés and bars must take a card payment of any amount, and refusing one is fined. Carry a little cash for tips.
  • UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
  • Tipping — Not customary; restaurants outside Rome often add a cover charge (coperto). Leaving the change in cafés and taxis is common.

Getting around Agrigento

  • Apps — Rides: FreeNow, itTaxi, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. In Rome these apps book licensed taxis; Uber also offers the dearer Uber Black.

Agrigento’s historic centre and medieval streets are compact and walkable, easily reached on foot from the train station at Piazza Marconi. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Agrigento, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

  • Emergency — police 112 · ambulance 118 · fire 115.
    TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Agrigento in pictures

Valle dei Templi, Agrigento – from Templo of Hera towards NE
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Cayambe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Historic centre of Agrigento seen from the Valle dei Templi Italy 2015 (2)
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José Luiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Agrigento
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Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Agrigento
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Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Agrigento is like

Agrigento (Sicilian: Girgenti or Giurgenti) rises on a ridge above the sea, its honey-hued buildings unfolding across the hills like a sunlit amphitheatre. Behind it, vineyards and almond groves stretch inland; below it, the ancient Valley of the Temples spills toward the coast in a sweep of Doric grandeur. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing
Agrigento is rich in history, from its days as the powerful Greek city of Akragas to its later Roman, medieval, and Baroque incarnations. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing
Villa Bonfiglio (Municipal Gardens of Agrigento), Viale della Vittoria (near the southern end of the old town, along Viale della Vittoria). More on Wikivoyage
Getting in
Agrigento is well connected by train and bus, though access from the east of Sicily can be time-consuming. The Valley of the Temples and Porto Empedocle are both within easy reach. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Agrigento, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Agrigento

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Kind of place

Agrigento is in Italy, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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