Tarifa climate by month
What the weather is like
Tarifa has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 28° and nights 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 629 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (100 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 7% in July to 33% in December.
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, Tarifa is 5.1° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 7% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 35 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 44 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° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 26° | 23° | 19° | 17° |
| Average low | 10° | 10° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 20° | 20° | 19° | 17° | 13° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 82 mm | 77 mm | 57 mm | 56 mm | 25 mm | 6 mm | 2 mm | 4 mm | 19 mm | 69 mm | 100 mm | 132 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.4 | 7.8 | 8.9 | 7.4 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 4 | 8.3 | 9.2 | 8.1 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 30% | 28% | 26% | 22% | 13% | 7% | 11% | 19% | 28% | 31% | 33% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 21° | 20° | 19° | 18° |
| Daylight | 9h 59 | 10h 53 | 11h 56 | 13h 06 | 14h 04 | 14h 35 | 14h 23 | 13h 33 | 12h 26 | 11h 19 | 10h 17 | 9h 44 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | ● | ● | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 70 | 73 | 78 | 83 | 90 | 98 | 90 | 86 | 87 | 80 | 78 | 75 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent