Where to live in Spain, by climate

Yearly averages, 2021–2025 · updated 4 November 2026

Before you move, see how hot it really gets: how many days pass 35 °C, how many nights stay above 20 °C, how muggy it gets and how often it freezes, measured by AEMET's weather stations for 998 towns. It isn't a score or a quality-of-life ranking: it's the record, and you decide.

days of 35 °C or more

a year in the typical town

warm nights

a year in the typical town

Córdoba

days of 35 °C a year: the hottest big city

Avilés

days of 35 °C a year: the coolest big city

Find your town

Pick what you don't want to put up with. Only towns with an AEMET station nearby, at a similar altitude, are listed.

Cities with the fewest hot days

	Town	Days of 35 °C or more	Warm nights	Frost days
1	Avilés Asturias	0	fewer than 1	1
2	A Coruña A Coruña	0	2	0
3	Gijón / Xixón Asturias	0	12	0
4	Fuengirola Málaga	0	111	0
5	Oviedo Asturias	1	1	4
6	Castelldefels Barcelona	1	90	fewer than 1
7	Viladecans Barcelona	1	90	fewer than 1
8	el Prat de Llobregat Barcelona	1	90	fewer than 1
9	Telde Gran Canaria	1	137	0
10	Badalona Barcelona	1	106	0
11	Barcelona Barcelona	1	106	0
12	Santa Coloma de Gramenet Barcelona	1	106	0
13	l'Hospitalet de Llobregat Barcelona	1	106	0
14	Ferrol A Coruña	1	4	0
15	Motril Granada	1	82	0

Cities over 50,000 people. On equal days, the one with fewer warm nights comes first.

Cities with the most hot days

	Town	Days of 35 °C or more	Warm nights	Frost days
1	Córdoba Córdoba	80	39	13
2	Dos Hermanas Sevilla	73	57	1
3	Sevilla Sevilla	73	57	1
4	Alcalá de Guadaíra Sevilla	70	57	1
5	Badajoz Badajoz	66	17	13
6	Linares Jaén	66	71	2
7	Talavera de la Reina Toledo	64	25	21
8	Arganda del Rey Madrid	62	32	38
9	Rivas-Vaciamadrid Madrid	62	32	38
10	Mérida Badajoz	62	13	13
11	Toledo Toledo	60	49	21
12	Aranjuez Madrid	58	22	48
13	Jaén Jaén	57	74	2
14	Ciudad Real Ciudad Real	57	51	23
15	Lorca Murcia	56	66	3

Cities over 50,000 people. On equal days, the one with fewer warm nights comes first.

Coastal towns with the fewest warm nights

	Town	Days of 35 °C or more	Warm nights	Frost days
1	Avilés Asturias	0	fewer than 1	1
2	Piedrasblancas Asturias	0	fewer than 1	1
3	Betanzos A Coruña	fewer than 1	fewer than 1	10
4	Luarca / Ḷḷuarca Asturias	0	1	0
5	Ribadeo Lugo	0	1	2
6	Noia A Coruña	2	1	0
7	Marín Pontevedra	4	1	1
8	Pontevedra Pontevedra	4	1	1
9	Boiro A Coruña	3	2	3
10	Rianxo A Coruña	3	2	3
11	Santa Uxía de Ribeira A Coruña	3	2	3
12	A Coruña A Coruña	0	2	0
13	Arteixo A Coruña	0	2	0
14	Cambados Pontevedra	2	2	1
15	O Grove Pontevedra	2	2	1

Towns over 10,000 people within 5 km of the sea.

The least muggy coast

	Town	Muggy days	Summer humidity	Warm nights
1	Ribadeo Lugo	1	76%	1
2	Marín Pontevedra	1	70%	1
3	Pontevedra Pontevedra	1	70%	1
4	A Coruña A Coruña	1	77%	2
5	Arteixo A Coruña	1	77%	2
6	Bueu Pontevedra	1	73%	4
7	Cangas de Morrazo Pontevedra	1	73%	4
8	Moaña Pontevedra	1	73%	4
9	Nigrán Pontevedra	1	73%	4
10	Redondela Pontevedra	1	73%	4
11	Vigo Pontevedra	1	73%	4
12	Ingenio Gran Canaria	1	51%	64
13	Luarca / Ḷḷuarca Asturias	1	—	1
14	A Guarda Pontevedra	1	69%	5
15	La Orotava Tenerife	1	60%	23

Towns over 10,000 people within 5 km of the sea, from fewest to most muggy days, with their average summer humidity.

The sunniest cities

	Town	Hours of sunshine a year	Rainy days	Days of 35 °C or more
1	Córdoba Córdoba	3,490	55	80
2	Huelva Huelva	3,380	44	31
3	Alacant / Alicante Alacant/Alicante	3,260	35	8
4	Sant Vicent del Raspeig / San Vicente del Raspeig Alacant/Alicante	3,260	35	8
5	Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tenerife	3,230	29	3
6	Alcalá de Guadaíra Sevilla	3,210	48	70
7	Sevilla Sevilla	3,210	45	73
8	Almería Almería	3,160	23	16
9	Arrecife Lanzarote	3,160	14	6
10	Molina de Segura Murcia	3,150	38	53
11	Murcia Murcia	3,150	38	53
12	Cádiz Cádiz	3,140	48	4
13	El Puerto de Santa María Cádiz	3,140	49	18
14	Cáceres Cáceres	3,140	61	45
15	Toledo Toledo	3,110	54	60

Cities over 50,000 people with a station that measures sunshine (only about 140 in Spain do).

Mild all year

	Town	Days of 35 °C or more	Warm nights	Frost days
1	Avilés Asturias	0	fewer than 1	1
2	Piedrasblancas Asturias	0	fewer than 1	1
3	Luarca / Ḷḷuarca Asturias	0	1	0
4	Ribadeo Lugo	0	1	2
5	Noia A Coruña	2	1	0
6	Santiago de Compostela A Coruña	2	1	1
7	Marín Pontevedra	4	1	1
8	Pontevedra Pontevedra	4	1	1
9	A Coruña A Coruña	0	2	0
10	Arteixo A Coruña	0	2	0
11	Cambados Pontevedra	2	2	1
12	O Grove Pontevedra	2	2	1
13	Vilagarcía Pontevedra	2	2	1
14	Vilanova de Arousa Pontevedra	2	2	1
15	Laredo Cantabria	1	3	2
16	Santoña Cantabria	1	3	2
17	Fene A Coruña	1	4	0
18	Ferrol A Coruña	1	4	0
19	Sada A Coruña	1	4	0
20	Torrelavega Cantabria	2	4	2

Towns over 10,000 people with 5 days of 35 °C or fewer and 2 frosts or fewer a year, from fewest to most warm nights.

Where it has changed most since the 1990s

	Town	Warm nights 1991–2000	Warm nights 2021–2025	Days of 35 °C 1991–2000	Days of 35 °C 2021–2025
1	Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tenerife	113	164	1	3
2	Castelldefels Barcelona	42	90	0	1
3	Viladecans Barcelona	42	90	0	1
4	el Prat de Llobregat Barcelona	42	90	0	1
5	Lorca Murcia	22	66	17	56
6	Cádiz Cádiz	78	118	1	4
7	Molina de Segura Murcia	56	93	28	53
8	Murcia Murcia	56	93	28	53
9	Castelló de la Plana / Castellón de la Plana Castelló/Castellón	54	91	1	4
10	Vila-real Castelló/Castellón	54	91	1	4
11	Palma Mallorca	82	118	1	5
12	Alacant / Alicante Alacant/Alicante	59	95	2	8
13	Sant Vicent del Raspeig / San Vicente del Raspeig Alacant/Alicante	59	95	2	8
14	València València/Valencia	69	103	3	6
15	Lleida Lleida	8	40	17	41

Cities over 50,000 people whose station was already measuring in 1991–2000: same place, same method. Sorted by the warm nights they have gained.

How we measure

The data are the daily values of AEMET's weather stations: each day's high, low and rain. For every year we count the days of 35 °C or more (and of 40 °C or more), warm nights (the low stayed at 20 °C or above), frost days (low below 0 °C) and rainy days (1 mm or more), then average 2021–2025. A year only counts with readings for at least 330 days.

Feels-like heat is the US National Weather Service's heat index, the most widely used: it combines the day's high with the afternoon humidity. As in weather apps, we never put it below the thermometer.

Humidity is the average of each day's relative humidity. Muggy days are those whose mean dew point reached 20 °C: we work it out from AEMET's daily mean temperature and humidity, and it is when most people feel the air go sticky. Nearly every station reports humidity since 2018.

Rain is the year's total in millimetres. Windy days are those whose strongest gust reached 50 km/h. Only about 140 stations measure sunshine, so it only shows near one of them. When a town's station doesn't measure humidity, sunshine or wind, we take them from another station that meets the same rules, and the town page says so.

A town only uses a station within 15 km, less than 150 m higher or lower, and about as far from the sea: the breeze that cools the coast doesn't reach 10 km inland. If no station qualifies, we give no figures for that town.

Thresholds are fixed and the same across Spain, so places compare fairly. It is what the station measured, not your street: town centres usually run a little warmer than stations, which are often at airports or on the outskirts.

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Measured at the station, not on your street: town centres usually run a little warmer. Fixed thresholds, the same across Spain. Data © AEMET.