Are there mushrooms around Viareggio right now
Today's index is 52 out of 100. Middling: there will be finds, but you will walk longer than usual.
The forecast is computed at the nearest weather point — 6 km from the town. It is an estimate for the country around the town rather than a measurement in it: within half an hour's drive the weather barely changes, though any single wood can still go its own way. Data from 18 September 2026, 11:37 BST.
Viareggio and the country around it
The ring marks Viareggio, the dots are the rest of the measurement network in Toscana. The field between points is interpolated; clicking a point opens its town.
Nearest towns
The forecast in these towns can differ — the further away, the more. In brackets, the best edible species today.
The week, species by species
23 species are in season in Toscana right now — ordered by today's index. Another 3 species are out of season: the index reads zero all week.
Boletus edulis
Boletus edulis
Week's best 52 — on Fridayaverage 34by the weekend falling
Today is as good as it gets — conditions do not improve later this week.
- Today5218 Sept
- Sat5119 Sept
- Sun2920 Sept
- Mon2821 Sept
- Tue2822 Sept
- Wed2723 Sept
- Thu2124 Sept
Cantharellus cibarius
Cantharellus cibarius
Week's best 47 — on Fridayaverage 29by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4718 Sept
- Sat4519 Sept
- Sun2420 Sept
- Mon2321 Sept
- Tue2322 Sept
- Wed2223 Sept
- Thu1724 Sept
Leccinum aurantiacum
Leccinum aurantiacum
Week's best 46 — on Saturdayaverage 30by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4518 Sept
- Sat4619 Sept
- Sun2620 Sept
- Mon2521 Sept
- Tue2522 Sept
- Wed2323 Sept
- Thu1824 Sept
Imleria badia
Imleria badia
Week's best 45 — on Fridayaverage 29by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4518 Sept
- Sat4519 Sept
- Sun2520 Sept
- Mon2421 Sept
- Tue2422 Sept
- Wed2323 Sept
- Thu1824 Sept
Amanita pantherina
Amanita pantherina
Week's best 45 — on Fridayaverage 29by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4518 Sept
- Sat4519 Sept
- Sun2520 Sept
- Mon2421 Sept
- Tue2522 Sept
- Wed2323 Sept
- Thu1824 Sept
Leccinum versipelle
Leccinum versipelle
Week's best 46 — on Saturdayaverage 30by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4518 Sept
- Sat4619 Sept
- Sun2620 Sept
- Mon2521 Sept
- Tue2522 Sept
- Wed2323 Sept
- Thu1824 Sept
Macrolepiota procera
Macrolepiota procera
Week's best 47 — on Saturdayaverage 30by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4418 Sept
- Sat4719 Sept
- Sun2720 Sept
- Mon2621 Sept
- Tue2622 Sept
- Wed2323 Sept
- Thu1824 Sept
Xerocomellus chrysenteron
Xerocomellus chrysenteron
Week's best 44 — on Saturdayaverage 28by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4318 Sept
- Sat4419 Sept
- Sun2520 Sept
- Mon2421 Sept
- Tue2422 Sept
- Wed2223 Sept
- Thu1724 Sept
Agaricus campestris
Agaricus campestris
Week's best 43 — on Saturdayaverage 28by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4218 Sept
- Sat4319 Sept
- Sun2420 Sept
- Mon2421 Sept
- Tue2422 Sept
- Wed2123 Sept
- Thu1624 Sept
Russula foetens
Russula foetens
Week's best 43 — on Saturdayaverage 28by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4218 Sept
- Sat4319 Sept
- Sun2420 Sept
- Mon2321 Sept
- Tue2322 Sept
- Wed2223 Sept
- Thu1724 Sept
Suillus granulatus
Suillus granulatus
Week's best 44 — on Saturdayaverage 29by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4118 Sept
- Sat4419 Sept
- Sun2520 Sept
- Mon2521 Sept
- Tue2522 Sept
- Wed2323 Sept
- Thu1824 Sept
Russula delica
Russula delica
Week's best 42 — on Saturdayaverage 27by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4118 Sept
- Sat4219 Sept
- Sun2320 Sept
- Mon2321 Sept
- Tue2322 Sept
- Wed2123 Sept
- Thu1724 Sept
Leccinum scabrum
Leccinum scabrum
Week's best 42 — on Saturdayaverage 27by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4018 Sept
- Sat4219 Sept
- Sun2320 Sept
- Mon2221 Sept
- Tue2222 Sept
- Wed2123 Sept
- Thu1624 Sept
Marasmius oreades
Marasmius oreades
Week's best 41 — on Saturdayaverage 26by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4018 Sept
- Sat4119 Sept
- Sun2320 Sept
- Mon2221 Sept
- Tue2222 Sept
- Wed2023 Sept
- Thu1524 Sept
Lycoperdon perlatum
Lycoperdon perlatum
Week's best 40 — on Saturdayaverage 26by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today3918 Sept
- Sat4019 Sept
- Sun2320 Sept
- Mon2221 Sept
- Tue2222 Sept
- Wed1923 Sept
- Thu1524 Sept
Kuehneromyces mutabilis
Kuehneromyces mutabilis
Week's best 38 — on Saturdayaverage 24by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today3718 Sept
- Sat3819 Sept
- Sun2220 Sept
- Mon2121 Sept
- Tue2122 Sept
- Wed1823 Sept
- Thu1424 Sept
Amanita muscaria
Amanita muscaria
Week's best 37 — on Saturdayaverage 24by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today3618 Sept
- Sat3719 Sept
- Sun2020 Sept
- Mon2021 Sept
- Tue2022 Sept
- Wed1823 Sept
- Thu1424 Sept
Suillus bovinus
Suillus bovinus
Week's best 36 — on Saturdayaverage 23by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today3518 Sept
- Sat3619 Sept
- Sun2020 Sept
- Mon1921 Sept
- Tue1922 Sept
- Wed1823 Sept
- Thu1424 Sept
Lactarius deliciosus
Lactarius deliciosus
Week's best 33 — on Saturdayaverage 21by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today3218 Sept
- Sat3319 Sept
- Sun1820 Sept
- Mon1721 Sept
- Tue1722 Sept
- Wed1623 Sept
- Thu1224 Sept
Lactarius resimus
Lactarius resimus
Week's best 31 — on Fridayaverage 19by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today3118 Sept
- Sat3019 Sept
- Sun1620 Sept
- Mon1521 Sept
- Tue1522 Sept
- Wed1423 Sept
- Thu1124 Sept
Armillaria mellea
Armillaria mellea
Week's best 30 — on Saturdayaverage 19by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today2818 Sept
- Sat3019 Sept
- Sun1720 Sept
- Mon1621 Sept
- Tue1722 Sept
- Wed1523 Sept
- Thu1224 Sept
Collybia nuda
Collybia nuda
Week's best 23 — on Saturdayaverage 14by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «quiet».
- Today2018 Sept
- Sat2319 Sept
- Sun1320 Sept
- Mon1321 Sept
- Tue1322 Sept
- Wed1123 Sept
- Thu824 Sept
Collybia personata
Collybia personata
Week's best 21 — on Saturdayaverage 13by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «quiet».
- Today1718 Sept
- Sat2119 Sept
- Sun1220 Sept
- Mon1221 Sept
- Tue1222 Sept
- Wed923 Sept
- Thu724 Sept
The weather this number came from
On the left, what has already happened; on the right, what is expected. The left half matters more: a flush comes a week to ten days after the rain, not on the same day.
- 11 сент.21°—
- 12 сент.22°—
- 13 сент.21°—
- 14 сент.22°—
- 15 сент.23°—
- 16 сент.21°7.0 mm
- 17 сент.22°—
- 18 сент.20°1.1 mm
- 19 сент.21°—
- 20 сент.22°—
- 21 сент.22°—
- 22 сент.22°—
- 23 сент.20°—
- 24 сент.19°—
Boletus edulis near Viareggio: where to look
Boletus edulis: the species in brief
How to tell it
A heavy, solid bolete with a brown cap and a thick stem. Near the top of the stem is a pale, raised net-like pattern. The pores are white when young, then become yellowish and finally olive with age.
Where it grows
With pine, spruce, oak, beech and other host trees, in woodland and along rides and clearings. Widespread across Europe.
In the kitchen
Excellent fried and especially good dried. Drying concentrates its aroma, which is why dried porcini are widely used in stocks, sauces and risotto.
Nutrition
Around 30 kcal per 100 g fresh is a useful rough guide, but values vary. Drying greatly concentrates both nutrients and calories.
This is a note about the species, not about what is in your basket. Full card with lookalikes →
Been out in Viareggio? Tell us how it went
No sign-up, five seconds. Reports are visible to everyone and help us check the forecast — where people say “nothing out there” and the model promises a flush, the model is wrong.
Common questions
Are there mushrooms in Viareggio in September 2026?
Today's foraging index is 52 out of 100. It is built from two weeks of rainfall, soil temperature, the length of the dry spell and each species' season, and it updates daily.
Which mushrooms are picked around Viareggio?
There are too few records for this region to name species yet. We will not list them «from the field guide»: an unconfirmed list looks exactly like a confirmed one and is worth something else entirely.
How accurate is this forecast?
It is a model of weather and season, not an observation of the wood. It answers «is this week worth a trip» well, and it does not know what is growing round the next bend. We measure its accuracy against independent records and publish the result — without that number a forecast stays a promise.
The index is high but I found nothing — why?
The index reads weather and season — things that are the same for tens of kilometres around. It does not know your particular wood, and that is where the mushroom grows. The usual reasons: wrong trees — every species has its own, and no weather makes up for the wrong stand; the wood was felled recently or is young — the mycelium takes years to recover; the spot is picked out — everything near a road or a car park goes over a weekend; the flush has been taken — you came a day after those who came on time; or the flush passed and slugs and larvae got there first, which the model cannot see. The reverse holds too: a low index does not mean an empty wood. It means the conditions are against you, not that there is nothing there.