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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Jaén
Jaén climate by month
Hot-summer Mediterranean · CsaBest Mar · May · Oct
Annual mean18°day and night
Seasonal swing19°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation570 mm68 wet days a year
37.77° N, 3.79° WElevation 558 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goJaén · weather score
Best timeMar · May · Oct
October: high / low23° / 13°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Jaén has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 35° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 13° and lows of 5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 19°.
About 570 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. April is the wettest month (64 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (5 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 6% in July to 33% in December.
Compared with Madrid, the capital, Jaén is 1.3° warmer on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · July
- Coldest nights
- 5° · January
- Wettest month
- April
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 6% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 34 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 | 13° | 15° | 18° | 21° | 26° | 31° | 35° | 35° | 29° | 23° | 17° | 14° |
| Average low | 5° | 6° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 18° | 21° | 21° | 17° | 13° | 8° | 6° |
| Precipitation | 57 mm | 59 mm | 49 mm | 64 mm | 46 mm | 20 mm | 5 mm | 10 mm | 32 mm | 62 mm | 74 mm | 92 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 8.9 | 6 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 4.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 6.6 |
| Cloud cover | 29% | 29% | 28% | 29% | 25% | 15% | 6% | 9% | 19% | 27% | 31% | 33% |
| Daylight | 9h 50 | 10h 48 | 11h 55 | 13h 10 | 14h 12 | 14h 46 | 14h 32 | 13h 39 | 12h 28 | 11h 16 | 10h 09 | 9h 34 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | – | – | – | ● | ● | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 57 | 65 | 81 | 79 | 84 | 71 | 57 | 57 | 73 | 82 | 75 | 63 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent
ivMonth by month
Jaén in every month
January57
13° / 5°
57 mm · 7.5 wet days
February65
15° / 6°
59 mm · 7.5 wet days
March81
18° / 8°
49 mm · 8.2 wet days
April79
21° / 10°
64 mm · 8.9 wet days
May84
26° / 13°
46 mm · 6 wet days
June71
31° / 18°
20 mm · 1.8 wet days
July57
35° / 21°
5 mm · 0.6 wet day
August57
35° / 21°
10 mm · 1.1 wet day
September73
29° / 17°
32 mm · 4.5 wet days
October82
23° / 13°
62 mm · 7.7 wet days
November75
17° / 8°
74 mm · 7.7 wet days
December63
14° / 6°
92 mm · 6.6 wet days