Pisa weather by month

The best time to visit Pisa is April to June — 89/100 in May, 23°C and 13 rainy days. The best season is spring, March to May (84/100 on average).

The worst month is December at 62/100 — cool, rainy, muggy air. See December →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Italy →

Pisa🇮🇹 Italy · Central & Southern Italy · City89
  1. 65Jan
  2. 69Feb
  3. 77Mar
  4. 85Apr
  5. 89May
  6. 87Jun
  7. 80Jul
  8. 76Aug
  9. 84Sep
  10. 81Oct
  11. 68Nov
  12. 62Dec

Best season: March to May (84/100 on average) · worst December (62/100)

Days
23°C
Nights
12°C
Wet days
13
Sun
12 h
Humidity
76%
Daylight
15 h
Pisa, Italy
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Pisa, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Pisa is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan65C12°C11 d6 hPeak1
Feb69C14°C10 d7 hShoulder—
Mar77B16°C9 d9 hBusy2
Apr85A19°C10 d11 hPeak3
May89A23°C13 d12 hPeak2
Jun87A28°C8 d13 hPeak4
Jul80A31°C5 d13 hPeak1
Aug76B32°C6 d12 hPeak2
Sep84A27°C10 d10 hPeak3
Oct81A22°C11 d8 hPeak2
Nov68C17°C13 d7 hPeak—
Dec62C13°C14 d6 hPeak1

What's on in Pisa through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

March
  • Capodanno Pisano25 MarFestival
  • Easter and Pasquetta29 Mar – 6 AprHoliday
April
  • Spring bank-holiday bridges25 Apr – 2 JunHoliday
  • Coach season on the Campo1 Apr – 15 Oct (usually)Season
June
  • Luminara di San Ranieri16–17 JunFestival
  • Gioco del Ponte24–30 Jun (usually)Festival
August
  • Ferragosto8–22 AugHoliday
September
  • Anima Mundi sacred music5–28 Sep (usually)Festival
  • Pisa Book Festival2–4 OctFestival
December
  • Christmas and New Year8 Dec – 6 JanHoliday

Everything on in Pisa through the year →

Crowds in Pisa in May

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Peak crowdsCoach season on the Campo, Spring bank-holiday bridges, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Good to know before you go to Pisa

Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.

Scams to know

A guide to Pisa's most common scam describes people near the Leaning Tower slipping a bracelet onto a tourist's wrist unasked, then demanding 10-50 euros once it's already on and turning aggressive if refused. The advice: keep your hands visibly at your sides and say a firm "no grazie" before anyone gets close enough to touch you, and don't fall for the separate car-park scam either, where someone posing as a parking official demands a wildly inflated "fee" when the actual municipal rate is just 0.60 euro an hour.
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Traveller notes on Pisa

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Regulars are honest this month genuinely comes down to luck, southern Italy usually running warmer but the weather itself capable of doing unexpected things regardless of region. Our row backs that mild, genuinely wet read, 19.3C over 7.7C nights feeling 6C, with a substantial 86.9mm of rain across 10 days and humidity at 73 percent. Regulars are consistent this falls within the broader April-to-late-June window locally considered the most comfortable stretch of the year, occasional showers alongside cool evenings the realistic expectation rather than a guaranteed sunny trip. The sea sits at a cool 15.7C. The record: 10.9 hours of sun, a 12.3 kph wind and AQI 46.
GenuinelyComesDownToLuckAprilJune · April · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Pisa's forum rates April through late June, plus September-October, as the most comfortable stretch of the year — warm days around 20°C with cooler mornings and evenings, ahead of peak summer heat and crowds. Regulars are candid that May itself can be genuinely unsettled some years, with forecasts only reliable about 48 hours out, so packing for a rainy day alongside the sunny ones is standard advice.
Tripadvisor community · May · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
June is inside the stretch the Pisa forum rates best - April to late June, then September and October - and it is also the last month before the full summer, with more variability than July and August but generally hot and sunny. The advice for the tower itself is about the hour: book ahead, and go first thing in the morning or late in the afternoon, which dodges the midday coach crowds and gets the better light for photographs at the same time. Regulars describe the Campo dei Miracoli in high summer as simply very crowded, which is the argument for late June over July. The record: 28C days that feel like 31C, 16.4C nights, 7.7 precipitation days, 13.2 hours of sun and a 24.3C sea.
TowerFirstThing · June · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters name November as Pisa's rainiest month, with October and November together seeing the heaviest precipitation of the year. Temperatures ease through the month - low-to-mid teens Celsius early on if you're lucky, dropping to around 10C or below by the back half - and posters describe real year-to-year variation in how much of the month is actually wet: one traveler's 11-day November trip saw rain on 4 days, only 2 of those heavy. Posters recommend simple layering (t-shirt, fleece, thin waterproof jacket) as generally sufficient, noting that street umbrella-sellers appear within minutes of any downpour starting. The trade-off for the wetter weather: noticeably thinner crowds around the Leaning Tower compared to peak season.
Tripadvisor community · November · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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