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Valga climate by month
What the weather is like
Valga has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 27° and nights 15°. 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 1,779 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (203 mm, 18 wet days) and July the driest (40 mm, 6 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 24% in July to 46% in December.
The sea reaches about 17° 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, Valga is 6.5° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 27° · August
- Coldest nights
- 5° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 24% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 17° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 18 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 04 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° | 17° | 19° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 16° | 14° |
| Average low | 6° | 5° | 7° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 14° | 15° | 14° | 11° | 8° | 6° |
| Precipitation | 203 mm | 162 mm | 147 mm | 148 mm | 137 mm | 64 mm | 40 mm | 52 mm | 105 mm | 229 mm | 222 mm | 270 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 17.5 | 13.1 | 15 | 13.7 | 11.9 | 7.5 | 6 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 14.2 | 16.3 | 15.3 |
| Cloud cover | 44% | 41% | 40% | 39% | 38% | 30% | 24% | 25% | 31% | 41% | 45% | 46% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 15° | 16° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 16° | 16° | 14° |
| Daylight | 9h 23 | 10h 33 | 11h 53 | 13h 22 | 14h 37 | 15h 18 | 15h 01 | 13h 57 | 12h 32 | 11h 06 | 9h 47 | 9h 04 |
| Month score | 35 | 45 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 82 | 81 | 79 | 82 | 62 | 49 | 38 |