Costa Brava
42.10° N, 3.10° E
When to go?
Mean 9 °C, 7 rain days in the month (53 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 10 °C, 6 rain days in the month (43 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 12 °C, 8 rain days in the month (57 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 14 °C, 8 rain days in the month (57 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 17 °C, 7 rain days in the month (49 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 22 °C, 4 rain days in the month (26 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 24 °C, 3 rain days in the month (22 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
- Ideal for the seawater at 22 °C
Mean 25 °C, 4 rain days in the month (28 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 23 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
Mean 21 °C, 6 rain days in the month (63 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
- Ideal for the seawater at 22 °C
Mean 18 °C, 8 rain days in the month (82 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 13 °C, 8 rain days in the month (67 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 10 °C, 6 rain days in the month (54 mm).
Nothing against it.
The best months are May–July, September–October. Ideal for the sea: July–September. Avoid August (hot).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Sea temperature: Gulf of Lion
Monthly mean sea temperature: Gulf of Lion (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Gulf of Lion (°C)
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +1.1 °C; in the last ten years by +1.7 °C. Warmest year: 2022 (+2.5 °C), coldest: 1956 (−1.0 °C).
June and August warmed the most (+2.2 and +1.7 °C), February the least (+0.5 °C). The warm season (above the annual mean of then, 15 °C) begins 10 days earlier and ends 7 days later.
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: no clear trend, dry and wet years alternate as before.
The sea, then and now
+0.6 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.