Mountain or Northern Lakes

It is a bit warm this year in Umbria, isn't it? The A/C isn't quite what you get in Dallas....

If you could find a place on Lake Garda there's plenty of swimming there and it is close to Verona.

Vernazza on Lake Como is lovely, but an hour north of Milano could still be plenty hot and not much opportunity for swimming unless you go top bucks.

I'm hearing that the Dolomites like Ortisei is very hot this year (temp, not coolness) so I won't recommend that one.

I looked at the weather map last night and noticed that the red on the map went all the way up until you are north of the Alps. As you are bedding in your residency, are you allowed to leave Italy for more northern Europe?

From what I hear from friends, it's hot everywhere. I would say look at Lago di Garda but when I was there in June it was packed with vacationers, so I have no solid recommendations. Hot showers a couple of times a day help temporarily.

Take my one week experience with a grain of salt. I can't guarantee how typical the summer weather conditions during my visit were. But anyway...

I rented a chalet in the Ortler Alps, about an hour north of Trento, but almost 800 m higher elevation. We descended from the mountains into Trento once, and the temperature was about 12-15° C warmer in the city. We didn't stay in Trento too long.

The chalet was in the community of Val di Rabbi. Although there were a few vacation homes here and there, this is mostly a rustic Alpine community with only a little bit of tourist infrastructure. I'll leave it up to you to decide if that's a good or bad thing for your traveling purposes. Temperatures were generally quite low at night. It even dropped below freezing once. But quite comfortable during the day.

The nearby Val di Sole has a lot more lodgings, restaurants, ski lifts and leisure activities. We also visited Passo del Tonale, which at almost 1000 m higher than Rabbi was just barely warm during the day. The scenery here was stunning, although the town itself was purposely built as a modern sports resort. So, don't go looking for the stereotypes of Old Italy here. One of the high altitude ski fields above Tonale was actually part of the front line in WWI between Italy and Austria-Hungary, and you can see remnants and memorials of the battlefield carved into the rock. There's even a small museum dug into a cave in the mountainside.

Go to the coast. Breezy and with water to cool off. There is a reason why Italians go to the beach in July/Aug. You have 5,000 miles of coast in Italy at your disposal.