.jpg){kind=link}
El Ejido climate by month
What the weather is like
El Ejido has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 32° and nights 23°. 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 345 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (52 mm, 6 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 6% in July to 29% in December.
The sea reaches about 24° 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, El Ejido is 0.8° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · August
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 6% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 40 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° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 25° | 29° | 32° | 32° | 29° | 26° | 21° | 19° |
| Average low | 9° | 9° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 23° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 42 mm | 39 mm | 29 mm | 31 mm | 20 mm | 10 mm | 2 mm | 4 mm | 19 mm | 35 mm | 52 mm | 62 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 3.5 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 4.2 |
| Cloud cover | 26% | 26% | 25% | 24% | 23% | 13% | 6% | 9% | 19% | 24% | 28% | 29% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 20° | 18° | 16° |
| Daylight | 9h 55 | 10h 51 | 11h 55 | 13h 07 | 14h 07 | 14h 40 | 14h 27 | 13h 35 | 12h 27 | 11h 17 | 10h 14 | 9h 40 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | ● | – | ● | ●● | ●● | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 89 | 89 | 86 | 88 | 90 | 80 | 70 | 67 | 74 | 85 | 85 | 90 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent