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Barbate climate by month
What the weather is like
Barbate has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 13°.
About 780 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (62 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 6% in July to 32% in December.
The sea reaches about 22° 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 Madrid, the capital, Barbate is 3.4° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 6% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 36 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 43 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 | 16° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 24° | 20° | 18° |
| Average low | 9° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 105 mm | 88 mm | 62 mm | 65 mm | 33 mm | 10 mm | 2 mm | 4 mm | 29 mm | 88 mm | 132 mm | 162 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.6 | 8 | 9.4 | 7.5 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 8.3 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 28% | 27% | 25% | 21% | 13% | 6% | 9% | 18% | 27% | 30% | 32% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 16° | 16° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 20° | 19° | 17° |
| Daylight | 9h 58 | 10h 53 | 11h 55 | 13h 06 | 14h 05 | 14h 36 | 14h 24 | 13h 33 | 12h 26 | 11h 18 | 10h 16 | 9h 43 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | ● | ● | – | – | ● | ● | ●● | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 71 | 74 | 78 | 82 | 89 | 92 | 83 | 80 | 82 | 80 | 78 | 77 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent