Catania

Catania is a city of 310,000 people (2019) on the eastern coast of Sicily at the foot of Mount Etna, the biggest volcano in Europe. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0

When to go: Catania is warmest in July (29.0 °C); coldest in February (11.6 °C). Month by month

Getting there

The year in Catania

When to go

Catania is warmest in July at 29.0 °C, and that is also its brightest month. Its coldest is February at 11.6 °C.

Three months worth booking

The same year of measurements, decided rather than tabulated. Each opens the map below on dates in that month.

Staying there

A hotel room in Italy emits about 14.3 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors — a country average per occupied room, not this or any particular hotel. 7 nights in one room adds roughly 100 kg — about 6.3× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Rome. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Catania records 3 overnight stays per resident a year (3,245,943 nights in 2025). Comparatively quiet by European standards.

Eurostat, nights spent at tourist accommodation by NUTS 3 region, against resident population. Shown for context only — it plays no part in which destinations appear or in what order. Eurostat does not cover the United Kingdom after 2016, nor North Africa or the Levant at all, so this figure is absent for roughly a third of the destinations here.

Distances are great-circle. Rail assumes international rail at 0.01135 kg CO₂e per passenger-km with a 1.3× track detour allowance; flights use 0.12576 kg per passenger-km including radiative forcing. Journey times are modelled, not timetabled. Full method.