Best time to visit Tuscany

Italy · Europe

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

The year in Tuscany

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Go in Apr, Jun or Sep — these months score within a whisker of each other; 29C max, 3 rainy days. Oct is the next best.

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Things to do in Tuscany

Siena Cathedral Medieval church in Siena, Italy
piazza del Campo Square in Siena, Italy
Torre del Mangia Tower and museum in Siena
Palazzo Pubblico City hall of Siena, Italy
Basilica of San Domenico Church in Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Santa Maria della Scala Art museum
Fonte Gaia Monumental marble fountain in Siena, Italy

Tours and tickets in Tuscany

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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	10°	7d	81%	6.4h	ok	10C max, 7 rainy days
Feb	12°	7d	78%	7.3h	ok	12C max, 7 rainy days
Mar	15°	7d	72%	9.2h	good	15C max, 7 rainy days
Apr	19°	7d	67%	10.9h	sweet spot	19C max, 7 rainy days
May	22°	10d	70%	11.6h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Jun	29°	3d	61%	13.5h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Jul	32°	2d	55%	13.9h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Aug	32°	3d	58%	12.5h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Sep	26°	6d	68%	10.8h	sweet spot	26C max, 6 rainy days
Oct	21°	7d	76%	8.7h	good	21C max, 7 rainy days
Nov	15°	10d	82%	6.7h	ok	15C max, 10 rainy days
Dec	11°	9d	84%	5.7h	ok	11C max, 9 rainy days

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

Weather read at Siena: 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 May to August; quietest from November to January.

Then and now

Tuscany's June days now average 29.0°C, 5.1°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	7.8°	8.9°	12.4°	15.6°	20.0°	23.9°	28.3°	27.6°	23.9°	18.8°	12.2°	9.0°
2017–26	10.0°	12.5°	14.8°	18.6°	22.2°	29.0°	32.1°	32.1°	26.0°	21.0°	14.7°	11.1°
Change	+2.3°	+3.5°	+2.4°	+3.0°	+2.2°	+5.1°	+3.8°	+4.5°	+2.2°	+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 Tuscany 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 Tuscany

Autolinee Toscane runs Siena's city buses and the 131R and 131 coaches between Florence's coach station and Siena: tap a contactless Visa, Mastercard or American Express card, or a phone, as you board, one card per person, and on the coaches tap again as you get off, or you pay the fare to the end of the line. A ride on Siena's buses costs €2 and lasts 70 minutes; the at bus app sells tickets too, to activate as you board. Regional trains within Tuscany take a contactless Visa, Mastercard or American Express card on the TAP&TAP validator before boarding and again, with the same card, on arrival. From Pisa airport, the PisaMover reaches Pisa Centrale station in about 5 minutes for €6.50: buy it at its machines, or with a train ticket by choosing Pisa Aeroporto as the station.

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.

From the central station of Florence you can easily reach most places in Tuscany, including: Siena (1.5 to 2 hours) Pisa (1 to 1.5 hours) San Gimignano… More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Tuscany, 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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Tuscany in pictures

Via Francigena Toscana 2021 Monteriggioni — i

Wolfgang Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Via Francigena Toscana dopo Monteriggioni campagna 2021 — i

Wolfgang Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rotoloni nella campagna di Rignano sull'Arno (Tuscany) — i

Anna.Massini, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Raggiolo main street (Tuscany) — i

Terragio67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tuscan Landscape 6 — i

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

What Tuscany is like

Tuscany (Italian: Toscana) is a region on Italy's west coast, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is one of the most popular places to visit in a country that is itself one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Tuscany is world-famous for its churches, including the Duomo and Baptistery, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella, San Miniato al Monte and several others in Florence; the Duomo and Baptistery in Siena… More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Besides wandering in beautiful cities and looking at Renaissance art, there are many other things you can do in Tuscany. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: International flights commonly come in to Milan or Rome, where one can rent a car and do the three-hour drive to Tuscany. Florence and Pisa have important airports. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Tuscany, 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 Tuscany

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Kind of place

Heritage

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

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