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ROME · FEBRUARY · 41.89° N Rome in February answers a date question, not a place question. The normals carry most of it: days average 54.2°F, nights 38.5°F, and the city collects 2.82 inches of precipitation spread across roughly seven wet days. You walk in a coat at eight, carry it at two, and lose … Read more
ROME · JANUARY · 41.9° N Rome’s January afternoon tops out near 52.8°F, and the sun is gone by 5:04 p.m. Those two figures shape the trip more than any ticket you buy: coat weather that still walks well, and a day that ends early enough to need a plan for the dark. Rain is … Read more
LAS VEGAS · AUGUST · THE MONTH GUIDE Las Vegas runs its second-hottest month on two numbers: an average high of 102.8°F and an average low of 80.6°F. Those come from NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals for the gauge at Las Vegas McCarran Airport, on the valley floor. Rain barely registers at all: 0.32 inches for the … Read more
ROME · THE 12-MONTH VERDICT · 41.89° N Rome is a walking city with a Mediterranean thermostat. August averages 87.0°F by day and January 52.8°F, and the rain gauge does almost all of its work between September and December, when the summer sky finally breaks. Most trips fly into Fiumicino for three or four nights, … Read more
LAS VEGAS · DECEMBER · THE MONTH GUIDE Las Vegas in December averages a high of 56.9°F and a low of 39.6°F on the valley floor, with 0.45 inch of rain across the whole month. The number that reshapes a trip is neither of those. On December 15 the sun comes up at 6:43 am … Read more
LAS VEGAS · NOVEMBER · 36.1° N November takes 14.1°F off the Las Vegas afternoon. October averages a high of 81.2°F at the airport gauge, November averages 67.1°F, and the overnight low falls from 59.6°F to 47.3°F. That one shift is what the whole month is for: the desert outside the city turns walkable at … Read more
