Best time to visit Modena

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

The year in Modena

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Go in Jun — 30C max, 3 rainy days. Apr is the next best.

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Things to do in Modena

Modena Cathedral Cathedral of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Ducal Palace of Modena Building in Modena, Italy
Galleria Ferrari Automobile museum
Ferrari park Park and former automotive race track in Modena, Italy
Museo Enzo Ferrari Automobile museum
Galleria Estense Art museum in Modena
Museum of Plaster Figurines Museum in Modena, Italy

Tours and tickets in Modena

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, 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.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	8°	4d	84%	5.5h	ok	8C max, 4 rainy days
Feb	12°	5d	81%	6.7h	ok	12C max, 5 rainy days
Mar	16°	6d	72%	8.9h	good	16C max, 6 rainy days
Apr	20°	7d	69%	10.4h	good	20C max, 7 rainy days
May	23°	11d	69%	10.9h	good	23C max, 11 rainy days
Jun	30°	3d	59%	13.2h	sweet spot	30C max, 3 rainy days
Jul	32°	3d	58%	13.4h	okbusy	busier than usual
Aug	32°	4d	59%	12.0h	okbusy	busier than usual
Sep	27°	5d	68%	10.3h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Oct	21°	6d	79%	7.9h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Nov	13°	8d	85%	5.7h	ok	13C max, 8 rainy days
Dec	8°	7d	88%	4.6h	avoid	8C 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 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 July to October; quietest in February, March, November and December.

Then and now

Modena's June days now average 30.4°C, 4.9°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 10 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	6.7°	8.4°	12.9°	16.7°	21.4°	25.5°	29.3°	28.1°	24.4°	18.8°	11.6°	8.2°
2017–26	7.8°	11.8°	15.6°	19.6°	23.5°	30.4°	32.4°	32.4°	26.6°	20.9°	13.4°	8.5°
Change	+1.1°	+3.4°	+2.7°	+2.9°	+2.1°	+4.9°	+3.2°	+4.3°	+2.2°	+2.1°	+1.8°	+0.3°

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 Bologna (BLQ), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Bologna.

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

How far Modena 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 Modena

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.

Modena is well served by a trolleybus service, one of the largest in Italy, composed of 3 lines, and a bus service. All public transport is provided by SETA. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Modena, 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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Modena in pictures

Panorama modena 09 — i

SIG SG 510, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Modena Dom S 335 19904 PICT0046 — i

Karlunun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Naviglio Canal Albareto, Modena, Italy January 27, 2010 01 — i

Giorgio Galeotti, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Adeodato Malatesta, palazzo dei Musei, Modena — i

Pivari.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Modena Comune di Modena Dettaglio della facciata di Villa Raisini — i

Viaggiamocela, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Modena is like

Modena is a town of the Emilia-Romagna Region, in the middle of northern Italy. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: A UNESCO heritage site. It is the centre of life of the city. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Cinema Teatro Michelangelo, Via Giardini, 257. Luciano Pavarotti Municipal Theatre, Corso Canalgrande, 85. Teatro delle Passioni, Viale Carlo Sigonio, 382. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: The nearest airport is Bologna Guglielmo Marconi (BLQ IATA), 8 km from Bologna city and 40 km from Modena. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Modena, 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 Modena

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Kind of place

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

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