Punta Umbría climate by month
What the weather is like
Punta Umbría has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 31° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 588 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (93 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 5% in July to 33% in December.
The sea reaches about 23° 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, Punta Umbría is 1.6° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · August
- Coldest nights
- 7° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 5% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 23° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 42 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 37 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° | 17° | 20° | 22° | 25° | 28° | 31° | 31° | 28° | 25° | 20° | 17° |
| Average low | 7° | 7° | 9° | 11° | 14° | 16° | 18° | 19° | 17° | 14° | 10° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 72 mm | 54 mm | 44 mm | 56 mm | 29 mm | 9 mm | 2 mm | 5 mm | 31 mm | 75 mm | 93 mm | 118 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.3 | 6.9 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 3.4 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 7.2 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 28% | 28% | 26% | 21% | 13% | 5% | 7% | 17% | 26% | 29% | 33% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 15° | 15° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 22° | 20° | 18° | 17° |
| Daylight | 9h 53 | 10h 50 | 11h 55 | 13h 08 | 14h 09 | 14h 42 | 14h 29 | 13h 37 | 12h 27 | 11h 17 | 10h 12 | 9h 37 |
| Month score | 74 | 81 | 82 | 82 | 89 | 84 | 76 | 72 | 79 | 80 | 80 | 78 |