Castel di Sangro climate — normals and trends
Castel di Sangro (Italy) has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 9.2 °C and it receives 1,030 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is August (18.6 °C on average) and the coldest is January (0.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in November.
Castel di Sangro averages 90 frost days, 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 139 rainy days per year.
Castel di Sangro has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.23 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 111 to 69 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 33.6 °C (on 28 August 1960) and the coldest -20.8 °C (on 24 January 1942).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
Castel di SangroAbruzzo
- coords
- 41.78°, 14.11°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
9.2°C
Average daily high
13.7°C
Average daily low
5.0°C
Annual rainfall
1,030mm
Sunshine / day
9.7h
Mean relative humidity
78%
Average peak wind
8.7km/h
Seasonal range
18.1°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
90 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
1 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
139 d/yr
Annual snowfall
113.5 cm
Average feels-like high
12.5 °C
Average feels-like low
3.0 °C
Average peak gust
35.9 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
15.1 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+1.9 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.48 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
33.6 °C
28 August 1960
Coldest day
-20.8 °C
24 January 1942
Wettest day
88 mm
24 October 1964
Windiest day
29.5 km/h
30 December 1974
Strongest gust
137.9 km/h
29 October 2018
Hottest feels-like
36.3 °C
18 July 2023
Coldest feels-like
-25.2 °C
24 January 1942
Snowiest day
41.2 cm
3 February 2012
Sunniest day
14.2 h
26 June 2015
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 6.5 °C | +2.3 °C | 67 mm | -23 mm |
| Feb | 8.2 °C | +2.8 °C | 66 mm | -22 mm |
| Mar | 10.9 °C | +2.5 °C | 176 mm | +85 mm |
| Apr | 14.6 °C | +2.6 °C | 117 mm | +21 mm |
| May | 17.1 °C | +0.7 °C | 97 mm | +5 mm |
| Jun | 26.2 °C | +5.8 °C | 50 mm | -24 mm |
| Jul | 25.7 °C | +2.3 °C | 46 mm | -6 mm |
| Aug | 24.9 °C | +1.1 °C | 74 mm | +24 mm |
| Sep | 22.2 °C | +2.3 °C | 81 mm | +11 mm |
| Oct | 14.8 °C | -0.4 °C | 66 mm | -26 mm |
| Nov | 10.9 °C | +1.2 °C | 103 mm | -24 mm |
| Dec | 8.9 °C | +3.3 °C | 41 mm | -68 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Castel di Sangro?
Castel di Sangro has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 9.2 °C and it receives 1,030 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Castel di Sangro?
The hottest day measured in Castel di Sangro between 1940 and 2025 was 28 August 1960, reaching 33.6 °C.
What is the coldest day in Castel di Sangro?
The coldest day measured in Castel di Sangro between 1940 and 2025 was 24 January 1942, at -20.8 °C.
Does it snow in Castel di Sangro?
Yes. Castel di Sangro gets on average 113.5 cm of snow per year and has around 90 frost days.
Has the climate of Castel di Sangro warmed?
Yes: Castel di Sangro warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Castel di Sangro?
The wettest day measured in Castel di Sangro between 1940 and 2025 was 24 October 1964, with 88 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Castel di Sangro?
The windiest day measured in Castel di Sangro between 1940 and 2025 was 30 December 1974, with winds reaching 29.5 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Castel di Sangro?
The warmest month in Castel di Sangro is August (18.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (0.5 °C).
How much does it rain in Castel di Sangro?
Castel di Sangro receives on average 1,030 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 139 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Castel di Sangro?
Castel di Sangro gets on average 9.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,540 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Castel di Sangro?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Castel di Sangro between 1940 and 2025 was 3 February 2012, with 41.2 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Castel di Sangro?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Castel di Sangro.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Castel di Sangro?
In Castel di Sangro, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 36.3 °C on 18 July 2023, and the lowest was -25.2 °C on 24 January 1942.
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