When can you have your heating on in Italy

Italy’s climate zones range from Zone A to Zone F. This is the subdivision of the municipalities by climatic zones:

• Zone A: Lampedusa, Linosa, Porto Empedocle.
• Zone B: Agrigento, Catania, Crotone, Messina, Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Siracusa, Trapani.
• Zone C: Bari, Benevento, Brindisi, Cagliari, Caserta, Catanzaro, Cosenza, Imperia, Latina, Lecce, Naples, Oristano, Ragusa, Salerno, Sassari, Taranto.
• Zone D: Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Avellino, Caltanissetta, Chieti, Firenze, Foggia, Forl, Genova, Grosseto, Isernia, La Spezia, Livorno, Lucca, Macerata, Massa, Carrara, Matera, Nuoro, Pesaro, Pescara, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato, Roma, Savona, Siena, Teramo, Terni, Verona, Vibo Valentia, Viterbo.
• Zone E: Alessandria, Aosta, Arezzo, Asti, Bergamo, Biella, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Campobasso, Como, Cremona, Enna, Ferrara, Cesena, Frosinone, Gorizia, L’Aquila, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Modena, Novara, Padova, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Piacenza, Pordenone, Potenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Rieti, Rimini, Rovigo, Sondrio, Torino, Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Udine, Varese, Venezia, Verbania, Vercelli, Vicenza.
• Zone F: Belluno, Cuneo.

When is it possible to turn on the heating in each zone?

According to Italy’s new heating rules, the switching on of heating this winter 2022 will be arranged as follows:

• Zone A: 5 hours daily from 8th December to 7th March;
• Zone B: 7 hours daily from 8th December to 23rd March;
• Zone C: 9 hours daily from 22nd November to 23rd March;
• Zone D: 11 hours daily from 8th November to 7th April;
• Zone E: 13 hours daily from 22nd October to 7th April;
• Zone F: no restrictions.