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Rome March 2023 · Still winter or already spring?

Last Updated on 7. March 2023

Enjoy the approaching spring in Rome in March. It is not yet too crowded in the city and you can easily stroll through the streets and parks. What’s going on in Rome in March, you can find out here.

What’s on?

March is a popular time to travel to Rome. The city is not yet so crowded and hotels are still rather inexpensive. Many school groups visit the city. Reservations are required at some museums.

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Women have free entry to the national museums. Traditionally, there is a general strike for equality on March 8. This is probably a remnant of the tradition from the days of communism, when men celebrated Women’s Day and then came home drunk in the evening. In Rome today, men give their wives mimosa branches with their yellow flowers. Street vendors cut them in the parks and sell them in the city and at the crossroads.

Father’s Day is celebrated in Italy on the name day of St. Joseph on March 19. This makes one wonder whether Joseph or the Holy Spirit was the father and what that tells us today. Both days are not public holidays.

March 20 marks the official beginning of spring. The last Sunday of the month begins legal daylight saving time, and with it the longer evening opening hours of open-air museums such as the Colosseum and the Ostia Antica excavations.

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March in Rome

In March there are no vacations and public holidays and there is a lot of traffic. Public transportation does not work very reliably and many Romans drive their own vehicles to work, shopping or take their children to school.

In March, accommodation is still rather cheap. The more central you live, the less you are dependent on public transport. You can find out how to find an affordable room and which areas are best in our information on Hotels in Rome.

Rome March Villa Adriana

Rome is a very green city. Take the time to enjoy the daily changing nature in one of the Roman villas. And of course you have to visit a lookout point. Combine a visit to the excavations in Ostia Antica is with a trip to the sea. The still wintry Villa D’Este creates an interesting atmosphere, especially in the evening. Located in the valley below Tivoli, Villa Adriana is the largest villa that a Roman emperor has ever built. In its ruins, on sunny days, it can get quite hot as early as March.

But you can also reach more distant destinations such as Pompei, Naples or Florence in one day with the high-speed train or with a guided tour.

How cold it is

Even though March is astronomically counted as a winter month, it is already very spring-like in Rome. In the sunshine it is already very warm, at night it is still rather cold. Record temperatures in March are a maximum of 25°C/77°F and a minimum of -6°C/21.2F, although it is more likely that temperatures will rise above 20°C/68°F than that they will fall far below 10°C/34°F.

Climate data March

Tmax Ø16°C/60.8°F
Tmin Ø7°C/44.6°F
Sunshine hours Ø5.1
Days with rain Ø9

Source: www.wetter.com

Rome March Tiber Island

Skirts and pants are starting to get shorter. Remember, however, that your clothes must cover your knees if you plan to visit the Vatican, the catacombs, or other religious sites.

In March, there may be occasional rain. For the most part, the rain doesn’t last long and you can find shelter. After 15 or 30 minutes it is usually all over again.

Rome March Aventine Cavalieri di Malta

Since it can be very warm in the sun during the day and very cold at night, you have to be flexible with your clothes. In all cases you should have a light rain cover with you. Comfortable shoes are also important in Rome, as you will be walking a lot and the sidewalks are often bumpy.

Rome for early risers

Rome March Pantheon

Of course it takes a certain effort to get up in the dark. Nevertheless, I would like to recommend that you set off early in the morning.

There is very little traffic in Rome until six in the morning and you can take undisturbed beautiful photos of the sunrise at monuments and places. If you are lucky, you will find a foggy morning that offers very beautiful and unique photo opportunities. The sunrise is in Rome in March at 6:44 am at the beginning of the month and before the change to daylight saving time at 6:01 am.

Early morning is also the best time to jog.

Mid season in Rome what you should consider

There are always many visitors in Rome. No matter whether you are interested in archeology, art, churches or culinary art, Rome has something to offer for everyone.

The European Union was founded in Rome; three UN organizations, FAO, WFP and IFAD, are based in Rome. Rome is the capital of Italy and, with the Vatican, the center of the world’s Catholic religion.

So there is always a lot going on in Rome. In particular, when the situation with the coronavirus eases, many visitors will be in Rome.

Rome is also interesting for shopping in March. Here you will find a large selection in every price range.

Rome fried artichokes alla giudia

The heavy Roman cuisine goes perfectly with the cold season. In our Food category you will find tips on street food, pizza, the best ice cream parlors that offer creations to match the winter, but also on very elegant restaurants.

In winter, be sure to try the fried artichokes. They come fresh from the field and are freshly prepared every day. Read our information about Roman cuisine.

Avoid queues

Keeping your distance is a necessary precaution. Avoid the queues and make a daily schedule. In our category 3 days in Rome you will find suggestions that you can combine with each other.

Since you have to reserve in advance at most museums, the risk of queues is low there. Queues are almost always at ticket offices in airports and at the ticket machines. Bookings on the Internet are therefore the best choice.

Arrival

Organize the journey from the airport to the hotel in advance and read our information about the metro and how you can get tickets quickly and easily.

Ciampino Fiumicino Civitavecchia Local transport

Museums

Many museums can only be visited by reservation. These include the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums, the Colosseum, the Borghese Gallery and the museums of the Municipality of Rome. You can find information about the museums on our pages

Sistine Chapel Vatican Museums Colosseum Museums in Rome
Welcome to Rome show

Welcome to Rome Multimediashow

In the center of Rome, between the Vatican and Piazza Navona, a 30-minute multidimensional film show and an exhibition with interactive models await you.

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 203 Google maps Bus 46, 62, 64, 916 C.so Vittorio Emanuele / Navona

Tickets

St. Peter’s Basilica

Entry to St. Peter’s Basilica is free.

Rome March St. Peters

Priority entry to St. Peter’s Basilica is unlikely to be offered in March. This imposing building is definitely worth a tour. For more information read our pages on St. Peter’s BasilicaSt. Peter’s Square and the history of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Rome March opening hours

St. Peter’s Basilica

Basilica 7 am – 6:30 pm – dome 8 am – 5 pm – treasure 9 am – 5:15 pm

More information about St. Peter’s Basilica>

Colosseum

9 am – 3:30 pm closing 4:30 pm

With daylight saving time from March 26 to 18:15 Closing 19:15

Details about the Colosseum>

Vatican Museums

Monday – Saturday 9 – 16 Closing 18, Closed Sundays. Free admission on Sunday 26 9 – 12:30 closing 14:00.

Details on the Vatican Museums>

City museums and national museums

In Rome, some of the museums belong to the municipality and some to the state.

Rome march Castel Sant'Angelo

The city’s museums include the Capitoline Museums, Trajan’s Markets, Imperial Forums and numerous other museums. National museums include the Colosseum, Castel Sant’Angelo, Borghese Gallery and many more. For the full list of museums, opening times and tickets, see our Rome Museums page.

Free entry

All museums run by the Municipality of Rome, such as the Capitoline Museums and the Trajan’s Markets, have free admission on March 5th. The entry time must be reserved by telephone +39060608. Admission is also free at the national museums, most of which do not require reservations.

Exhibitions

Cinecittà si mostra tickets

Cinecittà si mostra Visit the dream factory of Roman cinema, Metro A Station Cinecittà Tickets

Stadium of the Domitian Tickets

Stadium of the Domitian The stadium under Piazza Navona

Via di Tor Sanguigna 3 Tickets

Galleria Colonna Tickets

Galleria Colonna – one of the largest ancient private palaces in Rome. The most beautiful rooms of the palace and the art collection of the family with artists from the 15th and 16th centuries such as Pinturicchio, Cosmè Tura, Carracci, Guido Reni, Tintoretto, Salvator Rosa, Bronzino, Guercino, Veronese, Vanvitelli

Via della Pilotta 17 (near Piazza Venezia) Palazzo Colonna Bus 51, 60, 63, 80, 83, 85, 160, 170, H, n5, n8, n11, n90, n543, n716 (Piazza Venezia) Tickets

Capuchin Crypt Tickets

Capuchin Crypt – Museum and Crypt of the Capuchins

Via Vittorio Veneto 27 Kapuzinergruft Bus 52, 53, 61, 63, 80, 83, 160, n90, nMA (Barberini) Tickets

Leonardo da Vinci Museum

Leonardo da Vinci Experience – near St. Peter’s Square

Via della Conciliazione 19 Leonardo da Vinci Experience

Tickets

Das Kolosseum erzählt von sich

The Colosseum tells of itself, permanent exhibition in the Colosseum – with the support of Heinz Beste, DAI Rom

Piazza del Colosseo Metro B Colosseo Tickets

Esposizione Pasolini pittore

Pasolini Painter

Pasolini Pittore is an exclusive exhibition project, completely new in its kind, conceived on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini. It aims, more than forty years after the last complete publication on Pasolini the painter in 1978, to bring back attention to an important artistic aspect, often neglected by critics, in the overall context of the work of the writer and director.

The exhibition includes about two hundred works, most of which come from the Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux in Florence. They reconstruct Pasolini’s artistic career since the early 1940s and document the continuity of Pasolini’s painterly practice and his technical tenacity. In the end, the artist was always more interested in the “composition” – with its contours – than in the material, in line with that painterly phase of Italian art that, especially between the 1960s and 1970s, was increasingly defined also by its civic commitment.

Gallery of Modern Art, Via Francesco Crispi 24 Google maps – until April 16, 2023

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La Movida. Spain 1980-1990

La Movida. Spain 1980-1990, the first exhibition in Italy by photographer and artist Miguel Trillo, through more than 60 photographs, chronicles the 1980s, the cultural movement known as La Movida and its social and political consequences.

Through April 30, Museo di Roma in Trastevere

Mostra I romanisti

I Romanisti – Table delights from Trastevere to the Trident

The cultural life of Rome from the end of the 20’s to 1940

until June 4, 2023, Museo di Roma in Trastevere

Van Gogh Exhibition Palazzo Bonaparte

VAN GOGH – Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum

In the run-up to the 170th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition and emotional journey, through an exceptional loan of 50 works – including his famous Self-Portrait (1887) – tells of his human and artistic life.

Special attention is given to the period of stay in Paris, in which Van Gogh devotes himself to an accurate color research in the wake of Impressionism and a new freedom in the choice of subjects, with the conquest of a more immediate and chromatically vivid language.

Palazzo Bonaparte, Piazza Venezia 5 – until March 26, 2023 Tickets

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Medieval Rome – The Lost Face of the City

The exhibition traces the appearance of Rome between the sixth and fourteenth centuries and its central role for simple pilgrims as well as for kings and emperors.

Put yourself in the shoes of a medieval pilgrim who wanted to see the first witnesses of Christianity and the relics of the martyrs.

Museo di Roma, Piazza Navona, until 5 February 2023

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Armando Trovajoli. A legend of music

The Museo di Roma in Trastevere Roma presents the first exhibition reconstructing the long artistic career of the master of light music Armando Trovajoli (Rome 1917 – 2013), an Italian pianist, composer and conductor who collaborated with major film directors and created more than 300 soundtracks and a record-breaking production.

Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza di San Egidio, from 11.3.2023

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Bōchōtei. Lifes in the shadow of the wall. Enrico Graziani

A photographic exhibition dealing with the consequences of the construction of the mighty tsunami protection walls, focusing mainly on the architectural and social impact, as well as on the daily life of the inhabitants.

Museo delle Mura, Via di Porta San Sebastiano 18 (Appia Antica), from 11.3.2023

Tuesday – Sunday 9 – 14, free entry

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Pericle Fazzini, the sculptor of the wind

A journey through the poetics of the artist of the Vatican Resurrection through a selection of about 100 works.

Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, from March 25, free admission

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Technoscape – The Architecture of Engineering

The exhibition highlights the relationship between structural or avant-garde engineering and the omnipresence of technology in the contemporary world.

The exhibition is divided into technological innovation and structural engineering.

MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4a – until April 10, 2023

I colori dell_antico

The Colors of Antiquity. Santarelli Marbles at the Capitoline Museums

In two rooms of Palazzo Clementino at the Capitoline Museums, there is on display a broad overview of the use of colored marbles, from their origins to the 20th century, through a fine selection of pieces from the Santarelli Foundation.

Capitoline Museums

Banksy immersive experience Roma Tiburtina

The World of Banksy – The immersive experience

Be captivated by the masterpieces of one of the most enigmatic artists of our time!

Tiburtina station – Shop gallery – until 28 May Tickets

La Roma della Repubblica

The Rome of the Republic. The narrative of archaeology

At Palazzo Caffarelli, the exhibition of some 1,800 works illustrates, through a series of archaeological themes and contexts, the characteristics and changes in Roman society from the 5th to the middle of the first century BC.

Capitoline Museums

infinity Chiostro del Bramante

INFINITY. Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Contemporary art without limits

March 18-October 15, 2023

Fifty works and four large site-specific installations. More than 60 years of art, almost 90 years of life.

An infinity of ways of making art, an infinity of ways of seeing, of changing perspective, of reading reality.

In the Chiostro del Bramante (Piazza Navona area) Via Arco della Pace 5 Google Maps

Events

Papal audiences and masses in March

General audiences of the Holy Father take place on Wednesdays at 9 am.

The Pope’s Angelus prayer takes place on Sundays at noon in St. Peter’s Square.

March 25. 17:00 Penitential celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica

Traffic-calmed Sunday

March 26, Traffic-calmed Sunday – driving ban for private vehicles with combustion engines in the city center
7:30 am – 12:30 pm, 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Porta Portese Market

every Sunday 7:00 – 14:00 Flea market & antiques

between Porta Portese and Via Ippolito Nievo Google maps

Ponte Milvio Market

Antiques market every Sunday

Between Ponte Milvio and Ponte Duca D’Aosta Google maps

Vintage Market & Farmers Market

5 +6 March 10:00 – 20:00 Vintage Market 8:30 – 15:00 Farmers Market

Via Tuscolana 179 Google maps

Fairs

PIX Padel Italy X-perience 10.-12.3. Link

Rome Bridal Week 25.-27.3. Link

Romics Comics – Cosplay – Cinema – Games 30.3.-2.4. Link

Fiera di Roma Regional train FL1 direction Fiumicino airport

Aerobatic Squadron Frecce Tricolori

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Mar. 19, 2023 Overflight on the occasion of the Rome Marathon – Foro Italico

Mar. 28, 2023 Overflights on the occasion of the Air Force Centennial Celebration

Sport

Roma Ostia Half Marathon

5 March 2023 Half Marathon Roma Ostia Info

Half Marathon from Roma EUR to Ostia on Via Cristoforo Colombo

Rome Six Nations

11 March Rugby Six Nations

Italy – Galles
Olympic stadium

Run Rome The Marathon

19 March 2023 Rome Marathon

Marathon and relay race

Marathon info

5 km Fun Run

Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil Kurios

From March 22 Cirque du Soleil  – Kurios

Under The Grand Chapiteau, Viale Tor di Quinto, 110 Google maps

Tickets on Ticketone online

YouTube player

Concerts

Rome has a lively music scene. Many pubs and music venues offer live music, especially on weekends. Classical music can be found in many churches and palaces.

Rome’s Music Park​

A jewel is the Parco della Musica, built by the internationally known architect Renzo Piano, in northern Rome on Via Flaminia. See all events here. Events and tickets

Tram 2 Parco della Musica

Casa del Jazz Paolo Fresu
Casa del Jazz Paolo Fresu

There are several auditoriums and an open-air stage in the Parco della Musica. There are performances in all styles.

Some events are also organized together with the Casa del Jazz. Events and Tickets Casa del Jazz

Bus 160, 671, 714, 792 Casa del Jazz

Palazzo dello Sport​

The Palazzo dello Sport is a multifunctional hall where concerts are held regularly. It is located in Quartier EUR and is easily accessible by Metro B station Palasport.

Metro B EUR Palasport Palasport

Tickets

Atlantico

Atlantico is a concert hall in the EUR neighborhood. You take Metro B to EUR Fermi and then bus 705 or 706 to Colombo / Atlantico.

Viale dell’Oceano Atlantico, 271D
Metro B EUR Fermi -> 705, 706 Atlantico

Tickets Ticketone buchen

Largo Venue

Largo Venue is a cultural center on Via Prenestina.

Largo Venue, Via Biordo Michelotti 2
Tram 5, 14, 19 Bus 81, 412, n5, n543, nMC Prenestina/Gattamelata Largo Venue

Tickets Ticketone buchen

Teatro Brancaccio

The Teatro Brancaccio on Via Merulana also hosts musical events.

Via Merulana 244 Teatro Brancaccio Bus 16, 75, 714

Tickets Ticketone buchen

Amusement parks

In Rome and the surrounding area there are a few parks that offer a welcome change.

Luneur

Luneur

The Luneur Park offers many rides. It is located in the south of the city in the EUR district on Via Cristoforo Colombo. The opening times in winter are irregular, mostly Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in summer daily until midnight. On the Luneur website you can see the calendar with the opening days. Bus connections are lines 30, 170, 714 and 791, Colombo / Agricoltura stop. From there it is 750m to the entrance on Via delle Tre Fontane 100.

Cinecittà World

Cinecittà World is a theme park about cinema and television. It is located next to the Castel Romano outlet center on Via Pontina between Rome and Pomezia. A shuttle bus runs from the Termini main station. Tickets

Excursions around Rome

Rome has beautiful surroundings. The Romans go to the seaside or the mountains for a good meal on weekends.

The seafood restaurants by the sea are also well attended in the early spring. There is a rustic kitchen in the mountains that goes well with the cooler temperatures. When there is snow, the Romans ski in the nearby Appenines.

You can reach many destinations by public transport.

Excursions to the sea

If you want to see the sea, just go to Ostia Lido. A ticket for city traffic is sufficient for the journey and on the way you can visit the excavations of the old port city of Ostia Antica.

Excursions in the mountains

The most famous summer residence of the Romans in Castel Gandolfo. The popes spent the summer here at an altitude of around 400 m. Pope Francis, however, remains in Rome and the palace and gardens at Castel Gandolfo can be visited.

You can get to Castel Gandolfo by train from Roma Termini or from Ciampino with a 3-zone ticket. The train station is located on the volcanic hill between Lake Albano and the village.

Day trips

With the high-speed trains that are punctual to the minute, Florence and Naples are only around 1 ½ hours away. With our tips you can put together your own day tour or book an organized tour. Take a day to stroll around Florence and see the world famous Uffizi Gallery. Or visit the excavations in Pompeii and see Vesuvius, which is still active today and buried the city under its ashes.

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