Italy and climate
Whether you are holidaying in Italy or planning to make it your new home, weather is all important. Indeed, with global warming changing the pattern of life in much of southern Europe (whether you’re a believer or a sceptic, you cannot ignore the evidence on the ground, and that is that Italy, like many other countries, is getting hotter) where you live will be to a large part dictated by what you consider comfortable. There is, then no single Italy climate graph, with the country ranging from cool and Alpine in the north (regions such as Piemonte and Val d’Aosta), to the hot Mediterranean south.
Italy is, famously shaped like a boot, a long slim country with mountains running down its spine (the Apennine mountain range), and you are never especially far from a coastline. This unusual topography naturally affects the Italy climate graph, with landlocked Umbria (the only one of the Italian regions not to have any coastline) also being the region with the greatest extremes of temperature. Umbria gets very hot in the summer and can be very cold in the winter months. Conversely, Puglia (or Apulia), the heel of Italy’s boot, despite being very sunny and in the deep south, doesn’t ever get unbearably hot (depending on what you can bear of course). With the Ionian and Adriatic coasts never far away, there is a cooling effect on this sunbaked region.
Water is something else again of course, and here is where the Italy climate graph becomes very crucial. Go to Puglia, Molise, Calabria and Sicily and water becomes a very precious resource. If you’re renting a villa in southern Italy you are likely to find your hosts very careful with the water supply. And if you are buying property in southern Italy, you need to check that your land actually HAS access to water, ideally via the mains supply or, more likely from a well.
Check out property for sale in Italy, hotels in Italy and villa and apartment rentals in Italy. And check out Italy weather forecasts from italy-weather-and-maps.com for your visit to Italy.
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