Today
Has it rained enough in Palermo?
Rain soaked properly in 10 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Palermo has had 23.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 85.3mm, so that is about 28% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 2.5mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Palermo through a normal year
Across a normal year Palermo gets about 668.4mm of rain, most of it in October (85.3mm) and least in July (6.7mm).
A normal October in Palermo has rain on 13 days. Only 8 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Palermo one of the drier places this site covers in Italy in October — 9th of 12, against Genoa at the wet end (184.6mm) and Bari at the dry end (62.3mm).
JFMAMJJulASOctND
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.