Best time to visit Sanremo

Italy · Europe

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

The year in Sanremo

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Beach and sea Jul–Sep · fair Jun

Go in Apr–Oct — these months score within a whisker of each other; 26C max, 3 rainy days. Mar is the next best.

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Month by month

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	12°	5d	68%	7.1h	ok	12C max, 5 rainy days
Feb	13°	6d	71%	8.1h	ok	13C max, 6 rainy days
Mar	15°	5d	67%	9.6h	good	15C max, 5 rainy days
Apr	18°	6d	68%	10.9h	sweet spot	18C max, 6 rainy days
May	21°	7d	74%	12.0h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Jun	26°	3d	73%	13.8h	sweet spot	26C max, 3 rainy days
Jul	28°	1d	72%	14.2h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	29°	2d	69%	12.7h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	25°	3d	70%	10.9h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Oct	21°	6d	74%	8.8h	sweet spot	21C max, 6 rainy days
Nov	16°	8d	71%	7.3h	ok	16C max, 8 rainy days
Dec	13°	7d	72%	6.6h	ok	13C 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 centre: 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, July, August and September; quietest in January, April, October, November and December.

Then and now

Sanremo's June days now average 25.9°C, 4.4°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	10.1°	10.2°	12.6°	14.6°	18.1°	21.5°	25.1°	24.9°	22.4°	18.8°	13.8°	11.3°
2017–26	12.3°	13.3°	15.2°	17.6°	20.9°	25.9°	28.4°	29.1°	25.2°	21.2°	16.4°	13.3°
Change	+2.2°	+3.1°	+2.6°	+3.0°	+2.8°	+4.4°	+3.3°	+4.1°	+2.7°	+2.4°	+2.6°	+2.0°

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 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes (NCE), then drive. The flights under Where to book are to Nice, Alpes-Maritimes.

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes (NCE)	the drive is not measured yet
Genova (GE) (GOA)	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 Sanremo 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 Sanremo

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.

The center of Sanremo is quite small, and all places of interest can be reached on foot. Bicycles can be rented and will allow you to move along the coast. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Sanremo, 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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Sanremo in pictures

Via Giacomo Matteotti Sanremo 1 — i

kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Royal Hotel Sanremo — i

kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanremo, last light of the day — i

Olivier Cleynen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanremo Spiaggia (10) — i

roberto franceschini, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanremo Spiaggia (6) — i

roberto franceschini, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Sanremo is like

Sanremo is in Italy. It lies on the Italian Riviera, near the border with France. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Villa Nobel. The house of Alfred Nobel where he lived the last year of his life; the building can be visited with a guided tour. - Villa Hanbury… More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Sanremo Casino (Casinò Municipale di Sanremo), Corso degli Inglesi, 18. Visit the imposing casino, an architectural masterpiece right in the centre of town that now celebrates its centenary. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Sanremo's train station and bus terminal are both located in the city center. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Sanremo, 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 Sanremo

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Kind of place

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

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