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Melilla climate by month
What the weather is like
Melilla 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 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 11°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 12°.
About 418 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (59 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in July to 29% in February.
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, Melilla is 3.7° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 11° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 12% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 31 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 48 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 | 11° | 11° | 12° | 14° | 17° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 21° | 18° | 14° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 59 mm | 57 mm | 47 mm | 46 mm | 24 mm | 8 mm | 2 mm | 5 mm | 18 mm | 45 mm | 56 mm | 51 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 9.2 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 8.8 | 8.3 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 29% | 28% | 26% | 26% | 17% | 12% | 14% | 23% | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 21° | 19° | 17° |
| Daylight | 10h 02 | 10h 55 | 11h 56 | 13h 04 | 14h 01 | 14h 31 | 14h 19 | 13h 30 | 12h 26 | 11h 20 | 10h 20 | 9h 48 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●● | ●● | ●● | ● | ● | – | – |
| Month score | 74 | 78 | 83 | 84 | 89 | 94 | 83 | 77 | 79 | 84 | 79 | 80 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent