Climate averages 1991–2020
Prato weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Prato: daytime highs average 21.5°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 79 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pistoia (15 km away). In May its highs average 21.6°C, about as warm as Prato, with 79 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Prato ranks joint 43rd of 79 for the warmest May highs and joint 50th of 79 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 79 cities is 21.8°C; Prato is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 79 mm to 60 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Pistoia in MayItaly · 15 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 11.3°C · 79 mm rain
- Florence in MayItaly · 16 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 11.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Lucca in MayItaly · 48 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 12.0°C · 76 mm rain
- Pisa in MayItaly · 59 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 12.9°C · 76 mm rain
- Bologna in MayItaly · 71 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 12.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Livorno in MayItaly · 72 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 14.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Arezzo in MayItaly · 78 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Forlì in MayItaly · 84 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 11.7°C · 64 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.