What is the climate like in Piedmont?
Piedmont is the second largest province of Italy, with a very diverse climate range. While the North of the province is dominated by the highest mountains of Europe and has a continental climate, the South – where our properties are located – is only 30 miles from the Ligurian coast, the so-called Riviera, with weather influenced by the warm Mediterranean sea. In between you have the lowlands of the Po valley, which tend to be foggy in November and December. For this reason weather charts that give you an average for the province of Piedmont can be very misleading. The high mountains along the Swiss border to the north and the French border to the west tend to deflect weather fronts coming from those directions, and to ‘capture’ weather that comes from the south and east. Since the prevailing winds come from the north and west more frequently than from the south and east, the net effect of Piedmont’s geographical location is a surprisingly good climate relative to the rest of inland It
