Camino Portugués weather: warnings stage by stage, month by month

Camino Portugués, Tui to Santiago, in 6 stages. Warnings 2019–2025; updated 27 October 2026.

The Camino Portugués enters Spain at Tui, across the Miño, and climbs through the Rías Baixas to Santiago. Its warnings are mostly rain and wind in autumn and winter, with the odd heat warning in summer. This is what the official warnings say, stage by stage and month by month.

June

the month with the fewest warnings

0.4 warning days walking the whole route

October

the month with the most warnings

1.5 warning days in 6 stages

warning zones

in 2 provinces

red days on some stage

2019 to 2025

From Tui it's six stages, all in Galicia. The Portuguese part, from Porto, is outside AEMET's warning zones.

Here we count, for each stage, the warning days in the zones it crosses, and add them up month by month. By warnings, spring and early summer are the best time to walk it, and autumn and winter the busiest.

The Camino Portugués's warning zones

AEMET doesn't warn by village but by zone. The Camino Portugués crosses 4 warning zones, each with its own thresholds and warnings: on the same day one section can have a warning and the next none.

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Average warning days a year in each zone, 2019–2025, against the median of Spain's zones (54 days). Approximate route through the stages. Tap a zone to go to its page.

Walking the whole route, month by month

How many warning days you'd get, on average, walking one stage a day from Tui to Santiago in each month. Tap a month to see it stage by stage.

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1.3Jan 0.6Feb 0.6Mar 0.5Apr 0.5May 0.4Jun 0.8Jul 0.6Aug 0.7Sep 1.5Oct 1.3Nov 1.3Dec

Stage-days with a warning, average 2019–2025, over 6 stages; the colour is the day's highest level in the stage's zones.

Stage by stage, month by month

Share of days with some warning in each stage's zones, 2019–2025. The darker, the more warnings.

Stage	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1. Tui – O Porriño	20	8	4	7	8	9	19	14	10	24	19	17
2. O Porriño – Redondela	23	9	8	8	10	9	19	15	12	26	22	22
3. Redondela – Pontevedra	19	8	8	8	8	4	12	7	10	24	21	21
4. Pontevedra – Caldas de Reis	19	8	8	8	8	4	12	7	10	24	21	21
5. Caldas de Reis – Padrón	26	12	12	10	8	4	12	9	11	26	23	25
6. Padrón – Santiago de Compostela	26	14	16	11	10	11	9	8	14	27	21	25

The Camino Portugués section by section

Pontevedra: Tui – Caldas de Reis

From Tui to Caldas de Reis, the Camino crosses the Miño de Pontevedra and Rías Baixas zones. Rain is the top reason for a warning, with wind behind it, and summer brings the odd heat warning: here yellow for heat starts at 34 °C, among the lowest thresholds in Spain.

Most common: rain, wind and heat. Most warnings in October and November; fewest in June and March.

A Coruña: Caldas de Reis – Santiago de Compostela

The last two stages enter the province of A Coruña. The pattern is the same, rain and wind, with autumn and winter busier than summer.

Most common: rain, wind and storms. Most warnings in October and January; fewest in June and August.

Coastal variant

From A Guarda, the coastal variant follows the shore through Baiona and Vigo and joins the central route at Redondela. Its stages lie in the same warning zones as the central route, so their warnings are very alike.

Share of days with some warning in each variant stage's zones, 2019–2025. It joins the main route at Redondela.

Stage	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1. A Guarda – Baiona	23	9	8	8	10	9	19	15	12	26	22	22
2. Baiona – Vigo	19	8	8	8	8	4	12	7	10	24	21	21
3. Vigo – Redondela	19	8	8	8	8	4	12	7	10	24	21	21

The worst days on the Camino Portugués

The days since 2018 with orange or red on the most stages at once.

red3 August 2018: red warning on 6 of 6 stages, for heat · the episode
orange6 November 2018: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for rain and wind
orange9 November 2018: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for rain and wind
orange1 February 2019: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for wind · the episode
orange6 June 2019: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for rain and wind
orange14 November 2019: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for wind · the episode
orange18 December 2019: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for rain and wind · the episode
orange21 December 2019: orange warning on 6 of 6 stages, for wind · the episode

When a warning is issued on the Camino Portugués

Thresholds change from zone to zone. These are the yellow ones in the Camino Portugués's zones:

Zone	Heat	Cold	Wind	Rain 1 h	Snow 24 h
Miño de Pontevedra	34 °C	−1 °C	80 km/h	15 mm	2 cm
Rias Baixas	34 °C	−1 °C	80 km/h	15 mm	2 cm
Suroeste de A Coruña	34 °C	−1 °C	80 km/h	15 mm	2 cm
Interior de A Coruña	34 °C	−4 °C	70 km/h	15 mm	2 cm

Yellow thresholds from AEMET's warning plan. Orange and red need more. Storms have no numeric threshold.

Tips for the Camino Portugués

Check AEMET's forecast the evening before each stage, and the zone's warnings on the Climaviso map.
In autumn and winter, pack for rain and wind: they're the most common warnings.
With a summer heat warning, set off early: yellow here starts sooner than in much of Spain.
A warning covers the whole zone: it doesn't mean it will happen on your stage, but it does mean you should keep an eye out.

Frequently asked questions

What's the best month to walk the Camino Portugués?

By warnings, June: on average, 0.4 warning days if you walk the 6 stages that month. Then May and April. The month with the most warnings is October, with 1.5 days.

Which section of the Camino Portugués gets the most rain warnings?

A Coruña: on average, a rain warning on 11% of days, mostly in October, November and December.

Does the Camino Portugués get hot enough for warnings in summer?

In July and August, the section with the most heat warnings is Pontevedra: a heat warning on 12% of days, on average.

What should I do if there's a warning on my stage?

A yellow warning calls for attention, not cancelling: check the forecast, set off early if it's for heat and have a plan B for storms or snow on a pass. With orange or red, follow Civil Protection's and the hostels' advice, and consider shortening or changing the stage.

This is not a forecast: it counts the warnings AEMET issued on those dates in past years. A warning is a forecast that a threshold will be crossed in the zone, not damage.