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Palma climate by month
What the weather is like
Palma has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 31° and nights 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 513 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. September is the wettest month (58 mm, 12 wet days) and July the driest (6 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in July to 31% in November.
The sea reaches about 26° 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, Palma is 2.3° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · July
- Coldest nights
- 6° · February
- Wettest month
- September
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 8% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 26° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 57 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 24 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 | 16° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 24° | 28° | 31° | 31° | 28° | 24° | 19° | 17° |
| Average low | 7° | 6° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 17° | 20° | 21° | 18° | 15° | 11° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 50 mm | 40 mm | 34 mm | 49 mm | 37 mm | 13 mm | 6 mm | 20 mm | 58 mm | 70 mm | 71 mm | 65 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.5 | 8 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 6.8 | 4 | 3 | 6.6 | 11.6 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 8.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 28% | 27% | 28% | 28% | 16% | 8% | 12% | 22% | 29% | 31% | 29% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 14° | 14° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 19° | 17° |
| Daylight | 9h 41 | 10h 43 | 11h 54 | 13h 14 | 14h 20 | 14h 57 | 14h 42 | 13h 45 | 12h 29 | 11h 12 | 10h 02 | 9h 24 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | ● | – | ● | ● | ● | ● | – | – | – |
| Month score | 70 | 69 | 82 | 82 | 84 | 77 | 66 | 58 | 60 | 75 | 75 | 74 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent