Today
Has it rained enough in Lugano?
Rain soaked properly in 10 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Lugano has had 56mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal September here brings 154.6mm, so that is about 36% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest September in 30 years was 37.9mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
15 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Lugano through a normal year
Across a normal year Lugano gets about 1662.7mm of rain, most of it in August (187.3mm) and least in January (66.7mm).
A normal September in Lugano has rain on 14 days. Only 10 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Lugano one of the wetter places this site covers in Europe in September — 2nd of 116, against Salzburg at the wet end (166.3mm) and Athens at the dry end (19.4mm).
JanFMAMJJAugSOND
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.