According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Vatican City is April to May and October to November. Plan 1 day.
Best months for Vatican City
- Best months
- April to May and October to November
- How long to stay
- 1 day
- Continent
- Europe
What Vatican City is best for
St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and the Vatican Museums offer world-renowned art and religious history.
Weather in Vatican City by month
Monthly averages around Vatican City; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 7 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| February | about 8 °C | some rain (81 mm) |
| March | about 10 °C | some rain (66 mm) |
| April best | about 14 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| May best | about 18 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| June | about 23 °C | some rain (33 mm) |
| July | about 26 °C | little rain (24 mm) |
| August | about 26 °C | little rain (24 mm) |
| September | about 21 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| October best | about 17 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| November best | about 12 °C | a lot of rain (114 mm) |
| December | about 8 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Vatican City
- Capital
- Vatican City
- Language
- Italian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F, L
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +379
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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