With the official announcement of the 2025 DP World Tour calendar, the date of the Italian Open has been announced: the 82nd edition will be played from 26 to 29 June 2025 at the Argentario Golf Club in Monte Argentario (Grosseto).
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The tournament, which will offer a prize pool of 3 million dollars, has been included among the European Swing events. It will be the second edition in Tuscany, 42 years after the victory of the German Bernhard Langer at the Golf Club Ugolino in Florence in 1983.
Monte Argentario is a promontory that juts out into the Tyrrhenian Sea at the two southernmost islands of the Tuscan archipelago; Giglio Island and Giannutri Island. Argentario also began as an island, but over the centuries the combined action of sea currents and the Albegna River created two tombolos, the Tombolo della Giannella and the Tombolo della Feniglia, which joined the island to the mainland, forming the Orbetello Lagoon at the same time.
Monte Argentario reaches its highest point at Punta Telegrafo (635 m) and is characterized by a completely hilly and sometimes impervious territory, softened only by the work of man who has created terraces over time where mainly vines and olive trees are grown. The very rugged coast includes coves and beaches, mostly stony, of considerable naturalistic beauty and is part of the Cetacean Sanctuary established in 1991 as a protected marine natural area of international interest. Some islets are also part of the municipal territory, the Isolotto di Porto Ercole, Isola Rossa and Isola Argentarola.
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The climate is Mediterranean, therefore quite mild throughout the year, with a notable increase in humidity in the summer period. Precipitation is rather scarce (on average just over 455 mm per year) and rarely of long duration; it is concentrated above all in the autumn months. The heliophany, that is to say the sunshine, reaches values close to the absolute maximums of the entire Italian national territory, with an annual average of over 7 hours per day (minimum value in December with an average of about 4 hours per day and maximum values above 11 hours per day in June and July).
Based on the climatic averages of the thirty-year period 1971-2000, the most recent in use, the average temperature of the coldest month, January, is 5.9 C, while that of the warmest month, August, is 22.7 C; on average there are 14 days of frost per year and 11 days per year with a maximum temperature equal to or higher than 30 C. In the thirty-year period examined, the extreme temperature values are 37.8 C in August 1998 and 9.0 C in January 1979.
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The average annual precipitation is 455 mm, distributed on average over 51 days, with a prolonged minimum between late winter, spring and summer and a moderate peak in autumn.
The average annual relative humidity is 72.8% with a minimum of 64% in July and a maximum of 79% in November; on average, there are 150 days per year with foggy episodes.
Below is the table with the climatic averages and the absolute maximum and minimum values recorded in the three-year period 1971-2000 and published in the Climatic Atlas of Italy of the Meteorological Service of the Air Force relating to the same thirty-year period.
