Humidity in Italy?

YES! You put something outside to "dry" , thinking its like 95 degrees outside it should be dry in a few hours, ha, good luck to you. Numbers may say one thing, but I have roasted and sweated to death in Rome twice, both times in August. Do not even consider getting a place with no a/c .

Hey, you're from the Deep South. The humidity in Italy in August cannot be any worse than what you experience in North Georgia. Italy is generally pretty hot throughout the middle of Summer. The problem is that their air conditioning is not up to U.S. standards and some hotels have their air conditioning on timers to cut off in the middle of the day. Electricity is obviously expensive. That's why I prefer to go before June 1st or after September 1st.

It can be, but not nearly as humid as Atlanta or the US south in general. Actually even NYC I think is worse in August. However it's typically uncomfortably hot (95 to 100 on average during the day), especially Florence which is notoriously the hottest city in Italy (along with Bolzano, in the Alto Adige Valley, in spite of being surrounded by the Dolomites, go figure). Since most of the day you'll be walking outdoors around town, rather than sitting in an air conditioned room, that makes it totally miserable (at least for me). I don't even know how I lived through it in Florence for 27 years (was younger I guess).

Yes, it is certainly humid in Atlanta in August but I'll bet Simon isn't TOURING Atlanta during August. I did the RS Venice, Florence, Rome Tour in 2011 (in September) and it was miserably hot. It was worth
the effort!

There's a reason why the entire country goes on vacation to the beach or up to the mountains in August...

Yes, there is not what is properly called a dry climate, especially in Florence and Venice, however, every summer is different.

thanks! ...well with all the humidity, at least my curly hair will be happy :-)

Paula's got a point. When it comes to temps in Europe, they're rarely more extreme than what many in the US are used to, cold or hot (or humid, or stormy, or etc). But in the US we tend to have AC in most places, and in many places we don't spend hours outdoors walking. My grandmother lives in the upper midwest where it's cold as hell, so winter in Southwestern Germany is relatively mild, yet she is complaining about the cold all the time because she doesn't spend hours walking in the cold in South Dakota.

We usually try and go to Italy in Spring or Fall, but in 2010 we went in mid to Late June and Rome was almost undoable. It was very hard to do a lot of walking during the day it was that incredibly hot and humid. Now I know I come from California, but I have traveled a lot and been in some very big humidity. So If you can go earlier or later I think you would have a much better time.