Azor climate by month
What the weather is like
Azor has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 31° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 18° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 652 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (174 mm, 13 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 5% in June to 24% in January.
The sea reaches about 28° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Jerusalem, the capital, Azor is 0.6° warmer on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · August
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- June · 5% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 28° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 14 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 04 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 18° | 19° | 21° | 24° | 27° | 29° | 31° | 31° | 30° | 28° | 25° | 20° |
| Average low | 9° | 10° | 12° | 14° | 17° | 21° | 23° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 15° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 174 mm | 123 mm | 62 mm | 17 mm | 4 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm | 29 mm | 96 mm | 142 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.8 | 10.2 | 7.2 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 4 | 7.2 | 10.8 |
| Cloud cover | 24% | 23% | 21% | 19% | 13% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 11% | 18% | 24% |
| Sea temperature | 19° | 18° | 18° | 19° | 21° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 26° | 24° | 21° |
| Daylight | 10h 17 | 11h 03 | 11h 57 | 12h 57 | 13h 47 | 14h 14 | 14h 03 | 13h 21 | 12h 24 | 11h 25 | 10h 32 | 10h 04 |
| Month score | 69 | 76 | 83 | 90 | 89 | 83 | 76 | 73 | 76 | 76 | 83 | 75 |