Climate guideThirty-year normals for Chiva, Spain
Chiva climate by month
Hot-summer Mediterranean · CsaBest Mar–Apr · Nov
Annual mean17°day and night
Seasonal swing16°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation558 mm65 wet days a year
39.47° N, 0.72° WElevation 337 mUTC+1 · Central European Standard Time
When to goChiva · weather score
Best timeMar–Apr · Nov
October: high / low25° / 12°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Chiva has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 32° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 4°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 16°.
About 558 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. September is the wettest month (64 mm, 8 wet days) and July the driest (12 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in July to 31% in October.
Compared with Madrid, the capital, Chiva is 0.8° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · August
- Coldest nights
- 4° · January
- Wettest month
- September
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 11% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 56 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 24 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 16° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 26° | 30° | 32° | 32° | 29° | 25° | 19° | 16° |
| Average low | 4° | 4° | 6° | 8° | 11° | 15° | 18° | 19° | 16° | 12° | 8° | 5° |
| Precipitation | 45 mm | 41 mm | 37 mm | 61 mm | 48 mm | 29 mm | 12 mm | 21 mm | 64 mm | 78 mm | 67 mm | 55 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 4.5 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 7.2 | 6.3 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 4 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 6.2 | 5.3 |
| Cloud cover | 29% | 30% | 29% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 11% | 18% | 27% | 31% | 31% | 31% |
| Daylight | 9h 41 | 10h 43 | 11h 54 | 13h 14 | 14h 20 | 14h 56 | 14h 42 | 13h 45 | 12h 29 | 11h 13 | 10h 02 | 9h 24 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | – | – | – | – | ● | ● | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 77 | 82 | 86 | 83 | 83 | 71 | 66 | 60 | 68 | 82 | 85 | 77 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent
ivMonth by month
Chiva in every month
January77
16° / 4°
45 mm · 4.5 wet days
February82
17° / 4°
41 mm · 4.6 wet days
March86
19° / 6°
37 mm · 5.8 wet days
April83
22° / 8°
61 mm · 7.2 wet days
May83
26° / 11°
48 mm · 6.3 wet days
June71
30° / 15°
29 mm · 4.1 wet days
July66
32° / 18°
12 mm · 1.9 wet days
August60
32° / 19°
21 mm · 4 wet days
September68
29° / 16°
64 mm · 7.5 wet days
October82
25° / 12°
78 mm · 7.3 wet days
November85
19° / 8°
67 mm · 6.2 wet days
December77
16° / 5°
55 mm · 5.3 wet days