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Arico climate by month
What the weather is like
Arico has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 28° and nights 18°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 20° and lows of 12°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 397 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (63 mm, 8 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 6% in July to 30% in December.
The sea reaches about 24° in September. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Madrid, the capital, Arico is 4.6° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- 12° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 6% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · September
- Longest day
- 13 h 55 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 22 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 | 20° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 23° | 21° |
| Average low | 12° | 12° | 12° | 13° | 14° | 16° | 17° | 18° | 18° | 17° | 15° | 13° |
| Precipitation | 54 mm | 63 mm | 49 mm | 23 mm | 8 mm | 3 mm | 1 mm | 5 mm | 12 mm | 41 mm | 63 mm | 75 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.6 | 7.5 | 5.5 | 4 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 8.3 | 7.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 24% | 23% | 21% | 19% | 11% | 6% | 8% | 17% | 24% | 29% | 30% |
| Sea temperature | 20° | 19° | 19° | 19° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 21° |
| Daylight | 10h 33 | 11h 12 | 11h 58 | 12h 50 | 13h 32 | 13h 55 | 13h 46 | 13h 10 | 12h 21 | 11h 31 | 10h 46 | 10h 22 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | ● | – | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | ● | ● | – | – |
| Month score | 87 | 82 | 87 | 91 | 96 | 97 | 89 | 84 | 85 | 84 | 80 | 83 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent