Today
Has it rained enough in Bari?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Bari has had 29.1mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 62.3mm, so that is about 47% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 2.1mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
5 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Bari through a normal year
Across a normal year Bari gets about 622.5mm of rain, most of it in November (75.2mm) and least in July (25mm).
A normal October in Bari has rain on 12 days. Only 7 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Bari the driest place this site covers in Italy in October — 62.3mm against Genoa's 184.6mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.