My family of 5 adults are traveling to Sicily in early July and 1 day we are driving to Mt Enta. It's summer and we are traveling from America so it will be shorts and t-shirts. I have read up top it's very cold which makes sense. I saw something that said they rent coats. Does anyone know if this is true so you don;t freeze your tucks off once at the top. Any other insight into this list would be great. Are plan is to arrive between 9- 9:30am
Cheers
Todd W
We've been twice and both times did tours with Etna People: https://www.etnapeople.com/
If you do a tour with them (which I highly recommend) they have coats and hiking boots you can use at no extra cost. That said, when we went in September we didn't need a coat, so I don't think you will need one in July. When we went in April we definitely needed it.
ETNA PEOPLE was wonderful! One of my best vacation days ever.
I don't know how helpful this will be, but on my family's July 2001 visit to Etna, our very warm-blooded younger son is wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the photos, our older son and I are wearing fleece jackets. My mother was probably wearing some flimsy fashionable thing and was cold. It was sunny and windy and there were patches of snow. We were not all the way at the top because it was starting to erupt, but pretty close. The sign said 2,920 meters above sea level. I think the temperature was between 40 and 50 degrees, i.e. warm to Minnesotans. Long pants, a warm layer, and a windbreaker would be good, but check the temperature and windchill before you go up.
That’s early and it will be cold. My experience there was in February, six feet of packed snow even well short of the summit, needing winter clothes and snowshoes, that won’t be your experience in July, but still, even in summer take the sweater and long pants you surely will have on the trip to deal with nice restaurants and air conditioning, and consider packing a wool hat and light gloves which won’t take up too much room.
