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Ingenio climate by month
What the weather is like
Ingenio 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 28° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 20° and lows of 13°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 316 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (48 mm, 5 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in July to 28% in November.
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, Ingenio is 5.1° cooler on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- 13° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 11% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 23° · September
- Longest day
- 13 h 54 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 23 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° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 23° | 21° |
| Average low | 13° | 13° | 14° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 20° | 19° | 17° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 50 mm | 52 mm | 28 mm | 17 mm | 6 mm | 2 mm | 2 mm | 2 mm | 14 mm | 31 mm | 48 mm | 64 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 4.1 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 24% | 23% | 23% | 22% | 15% | 11% | 13% | 18% | 23% | 28% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 20° | 19° | 19° | 19° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 21° |
| Daylight | 10h 34 | 11h 13 | 11h 58 | 12h 49 | 13h 31 | 13h 54 | 13h 45 | 13h 09 | 12h 21 | 11h 31 | 10h 47 | 10h 23 |
| Saharan dust haze | ● | ● | ● | – | – | ● | ●●● | ●● | ● | ● | – | ● |
| Month score | 93 | 91 | 95 | 96 | 98 | 97 | 91 | 86 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 90 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent