Rieti Airfield

LIQN · Latium, Italy

Climate Rieti Airfield 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Rome Urbe Airport (LIRU) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 78.5 75 66 81 78 83
February 78.5 75 73 88 80 83
March 84.6 68 80 91 92 96
April 89.3 85 88 90 92 93
May 89.9 88 81 97 94 99
June 97.0 96 93 99 98 96
July 98.6 97 97 100 99 100
August 97.6 99 94 97 99 97
September 96.0 98 94 99 95
October 90.2 91 93 96 91
November 82.6 75 87 82 89
December 76.6 71 66 81 75
Average 89.1 86.5 85.0 91.5 91.4 91.9

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 92.2 92 86 92 94 92
February 92.2 93 89 96 87 90
March 95.8 86 98 98 94 99
April 97.4 97 96 99 97 96
May 97.8 97 96 100 99 99
June 99.5 99 99 100 99 100
July 99.8 99 100 100 100 100
August 99.4 100 98 100 99 99
September 99.2 100 99 100 98
October 96.9 98 94 99 97
November 93.8 96 94 92 94
December 91.7 93 81 93 91
Average 96.6 95.9 95.9 96.8 96.4 96.5

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 13.0 15 13 13 12 14
February 15.4 17 15 16 16 17
March 17.1 18 18 16 16 17
April 20.0 22 19 19 18 20
May 24.2 24 24 27 23 26
June 30.4 30 29 33 30 28
July 33.4 35 34 35 32 33
August 33.5 35 33 34 33 33
September 28.5 30 28 30 29
October 23.8 27 25 22 21
November 17.9 19 19 18 19
December 14.0 15 15 14 14
Average 22.8 24.7 22.9 23.6 22.0 22.4

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 3.6 6 5 3 4 2
February 5.2 6 3 5 6 6
March 7.8 10 9 5 7 7
April 10.6 11 10 10 11 11
May 16.3 16 16 17 17 18
June 21.8 22 20 23 23 21
July 24.3 25 24 25 25 25
August 23.0 25 22 24 23 25
September 18.1 18 18 19 19
October 13.3 15 14 13 12
November 9.7 10 10 11 9
December 5.6 7 8 5 5
Average 13.5 15.1 13.3 13.4 13.6 13.2

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 6.1 5 9 3 12 3
February 4.8 5 3 3 5 0
March 5.9 9 3 6 6 4
April 4.7 3 7 5 7 4
May 4.6 5 8 2 4 1
June 1.2 2 1 1 2 2
July 0.4 1 1 0 1 0
August 1.1 1 1 1 1 3
September 2.2 1 5 0 6
October 2.3 1 1 3 4
November 7.3 6 5 14 2
December 9.0 4 20 10 10
Average 3.8 3.4 3.6 3.6 5.1 3.1

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 4.9 5 5 5 6 3
February 5.3 5 4 6 5 5
March 6.2 6 6 6 6 6
April 5.9 6 6 7 6 5
May 5.8 6 5 5 7 7
June 6.1 7 6 6 6 7
July 6.4 7 6 7 7 6
August 6.1 6 6 6 7 7
September 5.4 6 7 5 5
October 5.0 5 4 6 5
November 4.9 5 5 5 4
December 4.8 5 5 5 5
Average 5.7 6.0 5.4 5.7 5.9 5.4

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
January 358° 348° 011° 094° 020°
February 167° 342° 337° 325° 301°
March 188° 213° 326° 331° 275°
April 233° 319° 251° 226° 256°
May 235° 265° 249° 221° 257°
June 234° 261° 262° 243° 227°
July 237° 230° 249° 233° 255°
August 242° 237° 244° 232° 233°
September 302° 218° 242° 245°
October 208° 276° 358° 215°
November 278° 344° 085° 015°
December 004° 142° 015° 174°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.