Matera
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📷 Wikimedia Commons contributor· CC BY-SA 3.0La città dei Sassi | The city of stones
About
Matera is a city and the capital of the Province of Matera in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy. With a history of continuous occupation dating back to prehistory, it is renowned for its rock-cut urban core, whose twin cliffside zones are known collectively as the Sassi.
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The next week in Matera
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
Overcast
21° / 10°
UV High
Sat
Showers
19° / 12°
5.5 mm
UV High
Sun
Overcast
18° / 9°
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
21° / 9°
UV High
Tue
Showers
20° / 13°
1.5 mm
UV High
Wed
Partly cloudy
21° / 11°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
32° / 8°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.4h
05:37 – 20:02local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Matera
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport (BRI) at 54 km.
Getting around Matera
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
Società Trasporti Provinciale S.p.A.Miccolis S.p.A.STPVectareFlixBus-euNeckar-DonauFlixBus-deB Metro
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
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- 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 →
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- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.