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Best time to visit Assisi

Italy · Europe

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

The year in Assisi

Tap a month for its page

  1. Assisi in January: ok
  2. Assisi in February: ok
  3. Assisi in March: ok
  4. Assisi in April: good
  5. Assisi in May: good
  6. Assisi in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Assisi in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Assisi in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Assisi in September: good, busy
  10. Assisi in October: good
  11. Assisi in November: ok
  12. Assisi in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
Go in Jun–Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 28C max, 4 rainy days. Oct is the next best.

Things to do in Assisi

  • Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi Basilica was completed in 1253.
  • Santa Maria Maggiore Church In a little hidden angle of the town, a beautiful well kept Church (don't be cheated by its unassuming façade).
  • San Damiano The little church of San Damiano is outside the walls of the city, halfway down the hill, but easily accessible from Porta Nuova, near St. Clare's Basilica.
  • San Rufino Cathedral It has probably the most beautiful façade of all the churches in town.
  • Rocca Maggiore A lovely site with wonderful views.
  • Eremo delle Carceri Catholic sanctuary in Italy
  • Assisi Diocesan Museum Diocesan museum, Archeology, Sacred art, Architecture in Palazzo dei Canonici - Piazza San Rufino, Assisi

Tours and tickets in Assisi

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Assisi), 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

MonthMax °CRain days HumiditySun h/day VerdictWhy
Jan 9° 9d 80% 6.3h ok 9C max, 9 rainy days
Feb 11° 7d 77% 7.5h ok 11C max, 7 rainy days
Mar 13° 9d 73% 9.0h ok 13C max, 9 rainy days
Apr 17° 8d 69% 10.6h good 17C max, 8 rainy days
May 21° 10d 69% 11.5h good 21C max, 10 rainy days
Jun 28° 4d 59% 13.4h sweet spot busy busier than usual
Jul 31° 2d 52% 13.8h sweet spot busy busier than usual
Aug 31° 3d 55% 12.6h sweet spot busy busier than usual
Sep 25° 7d 66% 10.7h goodbusy busier than usual
Oct 20° 7d 74% 8.9h good 20C max, 7 rainy days
Nov 14° 10d 81% 6.6h ok 14C max, 10 rainy days
Dec 10° 10d 83% 5.9h ok 10C max, 10 rainy days

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

Weather read at the old town: 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 from June to September; quietest from December to March.

Then and now

Assisi's June days now average 28.0°C, 4.6°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 12 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1981–907.0°7.8°11.4°15.1°19.5°23.4°27.8°27.1°23.4°18.2°11.5°8.2°
2017–268.8°11.3°13.5°17.2°21.2°28.0°31.1°31.3°25.1°20.2°13.9°10.0°
Change+1.8°+3.5°+2.0°+2.1°+1.6°+4.6°+3.3°+4.2°+1.7°+2.0°+2.3°+1.8°

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 Perugia (PG) (PEG), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Perugia (PG).

Perugia (PG) (PEG) the drive is not measured yet
Rome (FCO) 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 Assisi is 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 Assisi

  • 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.

Historical Assisi is very small and easily explored on foot. But go slowly, or the hilly streets will put you out of breath before you know it. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Assisi, 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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Assisi in pictures

Italy, view over Assisi BW 2021 09 25 12 33 49
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Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Assisi San Francesco BW 2
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Berthold Werner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sacro Convento (Assisi) Remote view
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Stifone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

SW Perugia Plains Assisi Italy crop Sep23 A7C 07858
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Timothy A, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Assisi panorama
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Gunnar Bach Pedersen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

What Assisi is like

Assisi is a small medieval town of about 28,000 people (2022) perched on a hill in Umbria, the heart of Italy. Famous as the birthplace of St. Francis, Assisi holds religious, historical, and artistic significance. Periodical exhibits and fairs enrich the visitor's experience. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing
Definitely take the time to walk among Assisi's medieval houses and shops. Most of the cobblestone streets and alleys will take you to the basilica of St. Francis. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing
Sportoletti winery (on the way from Assisi to Spello through the hamlets of Viole and Capitan Loreto). Wine tasting where they offer lovely reds, a basic Assisi Rosso and their famous Villa Fidelia. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in
The closest train station is 3 km away from Assisi, in Santa Maria degli Angeli. Coming from Florence, you'll need to change trains at Terontola. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Assisi, 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 Assisi

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Kind of place

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

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