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Arrecife climate by month
What the weather is like
Arrecife has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 27° and nights 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 21° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 146 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (21 mm, 3 wet days) and June the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 18% in July to 29% in January.
The sea reaches about 23° 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, Arrecife is 5.6° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 27° · August
- Coldest nights
- 14° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- June
- Clearest skies
- July · 18% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 23° · September
- Longest day
- 13 h 59 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 18 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 | 21° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 24° | 22° |
| Average low | 14° | 14° | 15° | 15° | 17° | 18° | 19° | 20° | 20° | 19° | 17° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 22 mm | 24 mm | 15 mm | 7 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 14 mm | 21 mm | 35 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3 |
| Cloud cover | 29% | 26% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 18% | 18% | 20% | 24% | 28% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 19° | 18° | 18° | 19° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 29 | 11h 10 | 11h 58 | 12h 51 | 13h 35 | 13h 59 | 13h 49 | 13h 12 | 12h 21 | 11h 30 | 10h 43 | 10h 18 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | ● | ● | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | ● | ● | – | ● |
| Month score | 94 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 98 | 100 | 94 | 89 | 90 | 87 | 92 | 93 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent