Marbella climate by month
What the weather is like
Marbella has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 29° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 12°.
About 717 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (62 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 6% in July to 33% 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, Marbella is 3.9° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 6% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 38 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 41 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 | 17° | 17° | 19° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 29° | 29° | 27° | 24° | 20° | 18° |
| Average low | 10° | 10° | 12° | 14° | 16° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 94 mm | 84 mm | 62 mm | 59 mm | 30 mm | 9 mm | 1 mm | 6 mm | 30 mm | 74 mm | 118 mm | 150 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 6.8 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 29% | 28% | 26% | 22% | 12% | 6% | 8% | 18% | 27% | 31% | 33% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 17° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 21° | 19° | 17° | 16° |
| Daylight | 9h 56 | 10h 52 | 11h 55 | 13h 07 | 14h 06 | 14h 38 | 14h 25 | 13h 34 | 12h 27 | 11h 18 | 10h 15 | 9h 41 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | – | – | ● | ● | ● | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 77 | 78 | 79 | 82 | 89 | 92 | 85 | 81 | 83 | 82 | 81 | 81 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent