Today
Has it rained enough in Bologna?
Rain soaked properly in 8 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Bologna has had 15mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 73.7mm, so that is about 20% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 2.4mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Bologna through a normal year
Across a normal year Bologna gets about 812.4mm of rain, most of it in November (92.2mm) and least in July (43.6mm).
A normal October in Bologna has rain on 11 days. Only 7 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Bologna one of the drier places this site covers in Italy in October — 11th of 12, against Genoa at the wet end (184.6mm) and Bari at the dry end (62.3mm).
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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.