What is the Best Time to travel to Spain?

There are many questions we receive from readers who are organizing their next Travel to Spain, but there is one that you ask us very often.

What is the best time to travel to Spain?

The quick answer in broad strokes is that the best date it is in the months from april to june y from September to October.

But this must be qualified a lot depending on what you have thought. see and do in Spain, specifically, of the regions that you want to visit, since traveling to Cantabria is not the same as traveling to the Canary Islands.

It is not the same to take a trip that includes visiting cities like Madrid y Barcelona, or cultural sites such as Grenada o Salamanca, than go to enjoy the sun and the great leisure atmosphere of the beaches.

During these spring and autumn dates, temperatures in almost the entire country are usually very mild, and although some rain may fall, this is the best time to visit Spain.

In summer it is usually very hot, and in winter it can be very very cold.

It is also when the country is most beautiful, when all the plants bloom, and in autumn with the fall of the leaves you can see landscapes with colors that are only seen at this time.

One thing that differentiates Mediterranean countries like Spain is that we tend to have many more days of sunshine per year than the rest of Europe, even though there may occasionally be cold temperatures.

Of course, another option is becoming more and more fashionable, it is visit Spain at Christmas, especially when cities like Madrid o Málaga They are filled with colorful light bulbs and Christmas markets.

What is the best time to travel to Spain?

It must be recognized that currently, in general, there are only three months of cold (December, January and February), three of very hot (June, July and August) and another six months of intermediate and mild temperatures.

But there are many nuances depending on the area of ​​Spain that you are going to visit, since it is not the same to be in the Mediterranean coast that in the inland regions, that visiting the cantabrian coast o travel to the Canary Islands.

It has to be said that Spain If it has something, it is a tremendous landscape and climatic richness, since you can find all possible climates.

What is the climate like in the regions of Spain

All the Canary Islands that are in the Atlantic, off the coast of Morocco, is the only area that maintains more or less the same temperature all year round thanks to its tropical climate.

However, for all the north of Spain There are mountain systems that cross the country from west to east.

Therefore, all the northern regions that are bathed by the Atlantic and Cantabrian until the Pyrenees, record lower average temperatures compared to the rest of the country

In addition, most of the fronts that bring rain to the country enter through the extreme northwest, Galicia, that is why this entire area is the greenest and rainiest throughout the year.

The interior of the country has a Continental weather and it is where the most extreme temperatures are recorded, very hot and dry in summer and very cold during winter.

Except for some inland cities that may be wetter due to the influence of a major river, the interior of Spain is the driest part of the country.

On the other hand, the entire extreme east of Spain has a Mediterranean climate thanks to the sea that bathes it, which makes the temperatures always milder than in the interior.

Of course, there is quite a bit of humidity.

In summer they do not usually reach the extreme temperatures of the interior, but when some heat wave from Africa, on the Mediterranean coast, with the humidity, you have a very extreme thermal sensation.

In Spain the four seasons summer, spring, autumn and winter are quite marked, although in recent decades there has been an increasingly drastic transition from cold to heat and vice versa.

What is the weather like in summer in Spain?

The June, July and August are the warmest months, with quite high temperatures, even extreme throughout the center and south of the peninsula, to the point that they can reach and exceed 40 degrees in some areas.

During the summer it is almost impossible to walk during the middle hours of the day in interior cities such as Madrid, Cordova o Sevilla, or throughout the Castilian plateau and Estremadura.

That is why the tradition of taking a nap, because there is no one on the street and life restarts when the sun goes down.

We would never recommend visiting these areas in summer, the ideal would be in any of the other seasons.

On the coasts the temperature is high, although milder, but with a lot of humidity; the areas with more comfortable temperatures are those found in the north of Spain

That is why in summer the interior of the country empties and the coasts fill with visitors.

What is the weather like in winter in Spain?

En winter It is the complete opposite of summer.

In the months from the end of November to the beginning of March it is usually very cold with temperatures below zero in certain areas.

But one aspect that differentiates Spain of many countries in Europe is that, despite the cold, there are usually quite a few sunny days, which makes winter more bearable.

In areas above 1.000 meters above sea level, it is quite common for it to snow several times a year, and at higher altitudes there is usually snow and ski resorts all winter running.

but there areas in Spain where winter is quite mild.

These areas are the ones that are filled with european tourists, especially retirees, who come to Spain in search of the sun, fleeing the freezing climates of the northern European countries.

Areas like Balearic islands and Mediterranean coasts and the south in Andalusia, where they have fairly mild winters.

And especially we must mention the Canary Islands, which in winter are literally invaded by tourists from countries like Germany, Norway o United Kingdom, who find the weather so mild that it allows you to wear short sleeves.

What is the weather like in Spring and Autumn in Spain?

And finally the spring and fall, which is undoubtedly the best time to travel to Spain, since almost every day there is sun and temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees.

This is obviously an extreme generalization since this is the time of year when it rains the most and not all places have the same temperature.

But there is something common on these dates, it is very rare for someone to complain of being too cold or too hot.

Despite the allergy seasons in spring and the rainy days in autumn, it is the date that we would always recommend for a trip to Spain.