Nerja climate by month
What the weather is like
Nerja has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° 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 13°.
About 466 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (57 mm, 8 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 7% in July to 32% 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, Nerja is 3° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 7% 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 | 17° | 17° | 19° | 21° | 24° | 27° | 29° | 30° | 27° | 24° | 20° | 18° |
| Average low | 10° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 57 mm | 48 mm | 41 mm | 45 mm | 23 mm | 10 mm | 1 mm | 4 mm | 23 mm | 48 mm | 80 mm | 86 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 4 | 6.8 | 7.5 | 6.3 |
| Cloud cover | 29% | 29% | 28% | 26% | 23% | 13% | 7% | 10% | 19% | 26% | 30% | 32% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 24° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 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 | 79 | 79 | 82 | 83 | 88 | 90 | 82 | 77 | 80 | 84 | 82 | 84 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent