Ferrara
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About
Ferrara is a city and comune (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the Province of Ferrara. As of 2016, it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated 44 kilometres northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ferrara, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Ferrara
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
Showers
16° / 9°
2.0 mm
UV Moderate
Sat
Showers
19° / 10°
1.2 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Overcast
23° / 8°
UV High
Mon
Fog
22° / 11°
UV High
Tue
Showers
20° / 13°
3.3 mm
UV High
Wed
Fog
25° / 12°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
33° / 6°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.8h
05:45 – 20:33local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Ferrara
4 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) at 43 km.
Getting around Ferrara
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
TPERVectareSchweizerische Bundesbahnen SBBFlixBus-euErfurter Verkehrsbetriebe AGtrilex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLBNeckar-DonauBlaBlaCar BusFlixBus-deFlixBus-deMecklenburgische Bäderbahn MolliOEBB Personenverkehr AG KundenserviceB MetroNS Int
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Ketipmaig.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.