I wanted to wait a full year to see how this rug withstood the outdoors. Highly disappointed. While the rug is still in good shape, the colors faded almost 90% within the first 6 months. The darker wine/red color is still fairly bright. This is on our pool deck where about 60% of it is covered by a table and the rest is fully exposed to the sun, weather, etc. it gets sun about half the day and we get a lot of rain in our area, so I did t expect it to last long. But I did hope to get at least more than 6 months out of it.