Best time to visit Florence

Italy · Europe

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

The year in Florence

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Go in Apr, Jun, Jul or Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 30C max, 4 rainy days. Oct is the next best.

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Things to do in Florence

Santa Maria del Fiore The cathedral interior is to a basilica pattern…
Galleria degli Uffizi Outstanding fine art museum with Renaissance paintings and sculptures from classical…
Ponte Vecchio The oldest and most celebrated bridge over the Arno…
Palazzo Vecchio Old city palace/city hall, adorned with fine art.
Palazzo Pitti The original Pitti was a banker…
Santa Croce Contains the monumental tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Dante, Rossini…
Santa Maria Novella Also, the museum near the Chiostro Verde, outside the church to its left…

Tours and tickets in Florence

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Florence), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	11°	9d	81%	6.0h	ok	11C max, 9 rainy days
Feb	13°	8d	79%	7.0h	ok	13C max, 8 rainy days
Mar	16°	8d	73%	8.8h	good	16C max, 8 rainy days
Apr	19°	8d	70%	10.6h	sweet spot	19C max, 8 rainy days
May	23°	11d	73%	11.5h	good	23C max, 11 rainy days
Jun	30°	4d	65%	13.3h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Jul	32°	2d	60%	13.9h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	33°	2d	61%	12.5h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	27°	7d	71%	10.6h	good	27C max, 7 rainy days
Oct	22°	9d	78%	8.3h	good	22C max, 9 rainy days
Nov	16°	11d	82%	6.5h	ok	16C max, 11 rainy days
Dec	12°	12d	85%	5.4h	ok	12C max, 12 rainy days

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

Weather read at the Duomo, the centre, 6 km from the airport (FLR): 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 August; quietest from December to February.

Then and now

Florence's June days now average 29.6°C, 4.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 12 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	8.5°	9.7°	13.2°	16.7°	21.0°	24.8°	29.2°	28.3°	24.5°	19.6°	13.1°	9.8°
2017–26	10.8°	13.2°	15.7°	19.5°	22.9°	29.6°	32.5°	32.8°	26.8°	21.8°	15.6°	12.0°
Change	+2.3°	+3.5°	+2.5°	+2.8°	+1.9°	+4.8°	+3.3°	+4.4°	+2.3°	+2.2°	+2.5°	+2.2°

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

How far Florence 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 Florence

Tap a contactless Visa, Mastercard or American Express card, or a phone, on the reader each time you board a bus or a T1 or T2 tram, one card per person: a ride costs €2 and covers 90 minutes. The at bus app and the tram-stop machines sell tickets too; validate or activate one as you board. Tram T2 reaches the centre from the airport in about 20 minutes.

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.

Most of the major tourist sights in Florence are within easy walking distance of each other. More on Wikivoyage

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

Ferries from Florence

Vergherete → Vergherete · about 45 min

Crossings within 60 km, as mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Times are typical where the map records them.

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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Florence in pictures

Florence Italy Sale of belts 01 — i

CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Florence Italy Houses at Arno River 01 — i

CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Florence Cathedral seen from Piazzale Michelangelo night dllu — i

Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Florence from the Duomo terrace (61408p) — i

Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fireworks over Ponte Vecchio — i

Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Florence is like

² Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy, with a population of about 367,000 (2022). The city is a cultural, artistic and architectural gem, and is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Learn from Stendahl and don't try to see too much. Most tourists rush to do the Uffizi, the Duomo and the Bargello. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Great places to walk include along the Arno and across any of its bridges; through narrow, medieval back streets in the Santa Croce area; and in the Oltr'Arno, on the south side of the river… More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: The airport of Florence is Amerigo Vespucci International Airport (FLR IATA) (4 km northwest of the center), locally known as "Peretola", to which there are flights from major destinations in Western Europe. More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: Florence is generally safe and healthy, but beware the inevitable purse-snatchers and pickpockets. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Florence, 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 Florence

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Kind of place

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

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