The Best Time to Travel to Rome

The best months to travel to Italy are March, April, May and most of June. September and October are good traveling months for Italy and the rest of Europe, but not for children in school! November is quiet but can be rainy as can the month of March. January and February are cold months with fewer visitors.

Holy Week and Christmas are busy feasts and eventful occasions to travel if you want to participate in the liturgical celebrations. The first weeks of December and the months of January, February, and March are wonderfully quiet months.  

In June, July and August there are many shows, free concerts and entertaining street performers in the piazzas. 

In addition during these months along the Tiber river on the lower bank paths are white tents with pop-up eating places, bars, dancing floors, films, amusements, boxing, lectures, performances and shops—something for everyone, and an experience not to be missed.

There also numerous local religious processions and festivals tied to Saint's Feast Days and patrons of towns.