When is the best time to travel to Rome, Italy?
The best times to visit Rome are in spring (late March through May) and fall (September through mid-November)—though know that it does tend to rain bit more in October. This is partly to do with the weather. Summers can be pretty hot in Rome, especially as fewer people there seem to believe in air-conditioning, and it can get chilly in winter (December through February) though if you go in the weeks leading up to Christmas, you get to see the Christmas fair on Piazza Navona and nativity scenes set up in public spaces—the Spanish Steps, Piazza San Pietro—and in churches across the city. It has much more to do with crowds, however. Rome is packed during the summer tourist high season, June through August. What’s more, the city practically shuts down in August—and on August 15, known as Ferr-Agosto, it seems as if 90 percent of Rome’s citizenry heads for the beach en masse. The last two weeks of August in Rome tend to be brutally hot, with hordes of confused, sweating tourists wandering f
