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Tuscany in August

goodbusy · a good time to go · the warmest month of the year

The year in Tuscany

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  1. Tuscany in January: ok
  2. Tuscany in February: ok
  3. Tuscany in March: good
  4. Tuscany in April: sweet spot
  5. Tuscany in May: good, busy
  6. Tuscany in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Tuscany in July: good, busy
  8. Tuscany in August: good, busy
  9. Tuscany in September: sweet spot
  10. Tuscany in October: good
  11. Tuscany in November: ok
  12. Tuscany in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
August at Tuscany is 32°C by day and 19°C at night, with 3 rainy days and about 13 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high32°C
Nightly low19°C
Feels like, afternoon33°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more3 · 38 mm
Humidity58%
Sunshine12.5 h/day
Daylight13.9 h/day
Days over 35°C7
Crowds65 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Siena: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: busy. Busiest from May to August; quietest from November to January.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Tuscany in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 32°C.
  • A layer for the evening: 32°C by day, 19°C at night.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 7 days a month pass 35°C.
  • Sun protection: about 13 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

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.

On arrival in Tuscany: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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