What might I expect weather wise in December in Rome, Venice and Pisa?
Posted by
Tel Aviv
15788 posts
Anything but a heat wave. Try wunderground.com in the trip planner section. You can get daily weather conditions for the last 12 years for each of those cities.
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
The trip plannner section referred to by Chani is the FAQ permanent stickie at the top of the To The West section, this one: http://www.ricksteves.com/graffiti/helpline/index.cfm/rurl/topic/39878/bfaqs-answers-to-frequently-asked-questionsb.html Most weather questions can be answered there.
Posted by
St Petersburg Florida
951 posts
Rome: rain, cold at night, 45-60 degrees at day Venice: rain, fog, aqua alta in some places, sunny only if lucky and maybe for just a few hours. I am basing this off of my time in Italy 2010 in December.
Posted by
San Francisco
33 posts
This post should go to "To the Boot" section... but I digress Was in all 3 places around Thanksgiving last year. Rome was windy but not too bad. Few degrees colder than SF around that time. Scattered showers. Pisa was hazy and continuing shower.
Venice was COLD. Rain everyday. And yes the aqua alta prevented us from getting out until 11am each day.
Posted by
Renton, WA, USA
240 posts
We were there Dec 20, 2010-Jan 10, 2011. Rome, about 45 degrees at night, Florence/Tuscany...sunny but COLD, about 35. Venice..again, COLD and about 35. We just missed a huge snow storm before we arrived. Actually it was when Heathrow was shut down last year during December. Had to change our flight to go through Philly. Dress in layers. And IF you have a fur coat, by all means WEAR it!! They are very, very fashionable there, In Venice, bring wellies/Rain boots (or better yet buy some there) in case of the high water. We did not have any problems. Our schedule was as follows: Rome-San Gimignano-Ravenna-Bologna-Venice-Parma-Florence-Rome 2012-FRANCE Here I Come!!
Posted by
Tel Aviv
15788 posts
Kent, thanks for pointing out the ambiguity in my post. The Weather Underground website is wunderground.com They have a trip planner section. There you pop in the city you are interested in and a date range of up to 2 weeks, and you get the temps, wind, rain, etc. for each day for the past 12 years.
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
Hi Chani, your post was good, I didn't see any ambuiguity. Keep up the good work here! And BTW, the answer to your question that you asked on the "how do we get there" post is: Yes, when you're in the Middle East, as you are most of the time, then every direction you go is east.
:)