Climate averages 1991–2020
Prato weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Prato: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 00 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pistoia (15 km away). In August its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Prato, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Prato ranks joint 35th of 79 for the warmest August highs and joint 37th of 79 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 79 cities is 29.1°C; Prato is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 24.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 81 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Prato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 76 | 9.3 | 9.39 h |
| February | 10.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 83 | 9.2 | 10.410 h |
| March | 13.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 84 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 97 | 12.7 | 13.413 h |
| May | 21.5°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 79 | 11.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 60 | 9.4 | 15.415 h |
| July | 29.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 42 | 7.9 | 15.115 h |
| August, selected | 29.3°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 39 | 8.2 | 14.014 h |
| September | 24.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 81 | 9.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 18.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 123 | 11.9 | 11.011 h |
| November | 13.4°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 138 | 12.8 | 9.710 h |
| December | 9.6°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 108 | 11.0 | 9.09 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Pistoia in AugustItaly · 15 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 18.5°C · 39 mm rain
- Florence in AugustItaly · 16 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 31 mm rain
- Lucca in AugustItaly · 48 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 19.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Pisa in AugustItaly · 59 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 20.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Bologna in AugustItaly · 71 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 19.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Livorno in AugustItaly · 72 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 21.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Arezzo in AugustItaly · 78 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 18.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Forlì in AugustItaly · 84 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 49 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Prato) is explained once on the Prato year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pistoia lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.