The Metropolitan City of Messina (Italian: città metropolitana di Messina) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy.

According to Eurostat in 2014,[3] the FUA of the metropolitan area of Messina had 277,584 inhabitants.The nearby archipelago of Aeolian Islands is also administratively a part of the Metropolitan City of Messina.

It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established on 15 August 2015.

[4] The metropolitan city borders with the Metropolitan City of Palermo (the former province of Palermo), the Metropolitan City of Catania (the former province of Catania) and the province of Enna.

Part of its territory includes the Metropolitan area of the Strait of Messina, shared with Reggio Calabria.