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Cities / Italy

Catania

ItalyCsa
© OpenStreetMap, CARTO
Catania coordinate map

Catania at a glance

Local time   · Europe/Rome
Today
Partly cloudy32° / 25°
Travel basics
Tap water
Safe to drink
Electricity
230V/50Hz · Type C / F / L
Drives on
Right
Currency
EUR
Language
Italian
US passport
Visa-free

Entry rules change. Verify current requirements before booking.

City context
Population
312K
Elevation
7 m
Climate
Csa
Founded
729 BC
ItalyDetails and sources →

Why visit

Catania is eastern Sicily with lava stone, markets, Etna access, seafood, baroque towns nearby, and a working-city feel under the volcano. It works when Sicily should feel energetic rather than polished.

When to avoid

Do not expect Catania to behave like one enclosed cultural district. In Catania, keep the route local once the day begins. In Catania, a local replacement usually keeps the route clearer than a cross-town detour. The route should leave enough slack for closures, delays, and the distance between neighborhoods.

Plan Catania

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Catania

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Today
Partly cloudy
32° / 25°
UV Very high
Wed
Partly cloudy
35° / 26°
UV Very high
Thu
Showers
36° / 27°
UV Very high
Fri
Overcast
33° / 26°
0.6 mm
UV Very high
Sat
Partly cloudy
33° / 26°
UV Very high
Sun
Partly cloudy
35° / 26°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
34° / 26°
UV High

Climate

Cool and wet season (Sep-Mar)

About 85% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 18°C, lows around 9°C.

Warmer dry season (Apr-Aug)

Typical highs around 28°C, lows around 16°C. About 16mm of rain a month.

In August 4

Drag to scrub across the year.

JFMAMJJASOND
Weather
34° / 21°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.7h
06:14 – 19:54local
Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest CTA · 4 km

Getting around Catania

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

Local transit operators
FlixBus-euFlixBus-de

Operators and modes are aggregated from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications come from each feed’s route type codes.

About Catania

Catania is the second-largest city in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second largest city of the island, Catania is the centre of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, which is among the largest in Italy. It has important road and rail transport infrastructures, and hosts the main airport of Sicily. The city is located on Sicily's east coast, facing the Ionian Sea at the base of the active volcano Mount Etna. It is the capital of the 58-municipality province known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Italy. The population of the city proper is 296,984, while the population of the metropolitan city is 1,067,550.

Area
183 km²
Airport codes
CTA
Italy basics →Country context, advisories, and entry links for the practicalities shown above.
References5▾▴

The links below support the changing or licensed reference material on this page. Personal notes and ordinary geographic facts are not footnoted individually.

  1. City background. Wikipedia summary may be clipped or paraphrased. Structured fields are cross-checked against the related references. Related: .
JFMAMJJASOND36°2°
highlowrainfallcomfortable months

Monthly highs, lows, rainfall — long-term averages, NASA POWER.

Wikidata
, Open-Elevation
, IANA Time Zone Database
, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Weather and climate. Seven-day forecast and long-term monthly climate for the city coordinates. Related: NASA POWER, Open-Meteo license.
  • Getting around. Transit operators from agency GTFS feeds and nearby commercial-airport reference data. Related: OurAirports.
  • Public holidays. Upcoming public-holiday dates used in the annual planning scrubber.
  • City flag source. Public domain.
  • Maps, image licenses, and the full dataset registry are listed in site credits.