Today
Has it rained enough in Naples?
Rain soaked properly in 9 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Naples has had 98.3mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 122.3mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Naples through a normal year
Across a normal year Naples gets about 1109.7mm of rain, most of it in November (180.3mm) and least in July (19.3mm).
A normal October in Naples has rain on 13 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Naples one of the wetter places this site covers in Italy in October — 3rd 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 basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.