Turin is in 51st place in the national ranking which considers the level of climate liveability of a city, a survey carried out for the third consecutive year by Corriere della Sera in partnership with ilMeteo.it and available online for each municipality.
For the Piedmontese capital this is not an excellent result, however it gains 35 positions compared to last year, when it placed 86th.
The analysis highlights the effects of climate change starting from 17 evaluation parameters (three more than previous editions of the study), from temperature variations to heat waves. In our region it is Biella the most pleasant city from a climatic point of view, with a reference parameter so good as to bring it to second place in the national ranking, behind Imperia and before Agrigento.
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Biella is therefore the real one Cinderella Piedmontese, a bit surprisingly: if in previous years it had been penalized by drought, in 2023 it took advantage of the hilly position to mitigate both the tropical nights, those in which the minimum temperature never drops below 20 degreesand the heat index, (the combination of temperature, humidity, wind and solar radiation), two negative parameters that afflict the localities of the Po Valley.
And immediately at the foot of the podium there it is Wedgewhich after being the best Piedmontese city in 2022 today leaves the scepter but in ten years she went from 37th to fourth place. Third instead, at the regional ranking level, Asti (33rd), while Novara it ranks immediately after Turin, placing itself in 52nd place (fifth in the region).
At the bottom of the ranking here Vercelli83rd, e Alexandriawhich even closes in 95th place.
But the climate crisis is being felt almost everywhere. They were in Turin 54 heat waves counted in 2023, compared to 17 in 2021 and 9 in 2020. There were 47 tropical nights, compared to 27 in 2021. There were 54 days in which temperatures exceeded 30 degrees, an improvement compared to 66 in ‘last year. And in fact there are only 3 days classified as “extreme heat”, despite the 9 in 2022. But Turin, after three years of calm, has once again returned to the group of cities where at least one extreme climate event was recorded, a figure which it had not been registered since 2019.
The days of frost, however, dropped to 18 after 33 in 2022. However, the same is not true for those of rain, which are clearly increasing. If between 2020 and 2022 there were a maximum of 54 in a year, in 2023 the figure soared to 72 (second highest since 2000). Moving on to a more general analysis, which takes into account all the parameters, it is striking how Turin in 2023, placing itself in 51st place, recorded the third worst data ever.
The negative record belongs to 2022, when it placed in 68th place, followed by 2018, when the city did not go beyond sixtieth position. In recent years, climate change essentially seems to have enveloped the city, given that to find such negative data you have to go back to 2003, when it ranked in 47th place. Yet from 2008 to 2017, immediately after the Olympics, Turin was one of the cities where the level of climate liveability was among the best in Italy, given that it never fell below 13th position, i.e. always close to the top 10. The positive record dates back to 2010when it even placed second, while in 2011, 2014 and 2016 it always occupied fifth position.
