Polanco climate by month
What the weather is like
Polanco has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 24° and nights 16°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 13° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 1,313 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (131 mm, 17 wet days) and July the driest (64 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 35% in August to 45% in January.
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, Polanco is 8.6° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 24° · August
- Coldest nights
- 6° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- August · 35% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 23 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 59 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 | 13° | 14° | 16° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 21° | 16° | 14° |
| Average low | 6° | 6° | 7° | 9° | 11° | 14° | 16° | 16° | 14° | 12° | 9° | 7° |
| Precipitation | 131 mm | 107 mm | 110 mm | 120 mm | 95 mm | 71 mm | 64 mm | 80 mm | 90 mm | 132 mm | 171 mm | 142 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 16.9 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 13.5 | 11.7 | 9.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 13.2 | 16.2 | 14.4 |
| Cloud cover | 45% | 42% | 42% | 42% | 41% | 38% | 36% | 35% | 35% | 40% | 44% | 45% |
| Sea temperature | 13° | 13° | 13° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 20° | 18° | 16° | 14° |
| Daylight | 9h 19 | 10h 31 | 11h 53 | 13h 24 | 14h 41 | 15h 23 | 15h 06 | 14h 00 | 12h 33 | 11h 05 | 9h 43 | 8h 59 |
| Month score | 36 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 78 | 78 | 78 | 65 | 51 | 41 |