1Vatican City is the 155th warmest of 224 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2August is the hottest month here, averaging 88.0°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 105.1°F, on 4 August 1981, and it has stood for 44 years. Source: GHCN-Daily𝕏
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1951 at Rome/Ciampino Arpt, and the archive holds 49,031 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 48 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 101 m above sea level, the 52nd highest of 120 stations we hold in Vatican.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Vatican City by annual mean.
August is the warmest month at Rome/Ciampino Arpt, averaging a daily high of 88.0°F. That is an average of every August day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Vatican City?+−
January is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 53.6°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 66.4°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Vatican City?+−
105.1°F, on 4 August 1981, in the record held for Rome/Ciampino Arpt. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Vatican City?+−
12.2°F, on 11 January 1985, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Rome/Ciampino Arpt. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
34.4°F between August and January, the 63rd widest swing among the 224 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 64 Augusts, 1951 to 2024, this station's August average has risen about 0.7° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 6 OctoberRecord for the date: 86.5°F, in 1966. Today reached 73.4°F, 13.1°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 768th of 5,337 reporting stations, across the 12 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
1January is the coolest month, averaging 53.6°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 34.4°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 63rd widest of 224 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 18.0°F, on 1 October 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within Vatican its best placing is 3rd of 97 stations, over the 12 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Vatican City right now?+−
69.8°F at Rome/Ciampino Arpt, measured at 19:50 local on Tuesday, 6 October 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Vatican City?+−
The archive held here for Vatican City, Vatican starts in 1951, which is 74 years of record, and 49,031 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Vatican City's temperature?+−
Rome/Ciampino Arpt (LIRA), 101 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from METAR reports from the aerodrome and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Vatican City's record?+−
The record runs from 1951 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 50 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 67. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Vatican City getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 64 Augusts between 1951 and 2024, the average August high at Rome/Ciampino Arpt has risen about 0.7°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Vatican City compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 155th warmest of the 224 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 63rd by the width of its annual swing. Lisbon, Sucre, Rome sit closest to it on that ranking.
When is Vatican City hottest?+−
August, averaging 88.0°F across the record, with January the coolest at 53.6°F. That is a swing of 34.4°F across the year.
Commentary: Pleasant. We realise that's not very dramatic.