Today
Has it rained enough in Venice?
Rain soaked properly in 2 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Venice has had 48.8mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 109.6mm, so that is about 45% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 9.3mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Venice through a normal year
Across a normal year Venice gets about 1036.7mm of rain, most of it in November (124.8mm) and least in July (62.6mm).
A normal October in Venice has rain on 12 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Venice one of the wetter places this site covers in Italy in October — 4th 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.