With thousands expected to hit the road during August, Italy’s state police released a traffic calendar, highlighting peak travel times. Polizia di Stato (Italy’s state police) has released a calendar with information about traffic conditions each day in August to help travellers choose when to leave for their holidays and avoid peak traffic. The calendar is colour-coded, with a yellow marker indicating heavy traffic, red indicating heavy traffic with “possible critical conditions,” and black indicating “critical” traffic. The traffic calendar for August 2026. AdvertisementAs shown above, every weekend in August will have heavy or very heavy traffic, with the mornings of Saturday, August 1st and Saturday, August 8th presenting the most critical conditions.