Palamós climate by month
What the weather is like
Palamós 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 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 611 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (97 mm, 8 wet days) and July the driest (17 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 16% in July to 33% in October.
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, Palamós is 4.2° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 6° · January
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 16% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 12 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 09 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 | 14° | 15° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 29° | 26° | 22° | 18° | 15° |
| Average low | 6° | 6° | 8° | 11° | 14° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 18° | 15° | 10° | 7° |
| Precipitation | 55 mm | 48 mm | 48 mm | 56 mm | 50 mm | 32 mm | 17 mm | 29 mm | 65 mm | 97 mm | 61 mm | 53 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.2 | 6.4 | 8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 5.5 |
| Cloud cover | 31% | 31% | 31% | 32% | 32% | 25% | 16% | 19% | 26% | 33% | 33% | 32% |
| Sea temperature | 13° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 16° | 20° | 22° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 17° | 15° |
| Daylight | 9h 28 | 10h 36 | 11h 53 | 13h 20 | 14h 32 | 15h 12 | 14h 56 | 13h 54 | 12h 31 | 11h 08 | 9h 51 | 9h 09 |
| Month score | 63 | 67 | 73 | 81 | 81 | 83 | 73 | 69 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 71 |