Seville, Granada, Cordoba and the hot interior of southern Spain — a region whose summer is genuinely punishing. Daytime highs in Andalusia run from about 13 °C in January to 32 °C in July, an annual range of roughly 19 °C.
Measured against a city trip, the conditions hold up March to May and October to November. March is the most consistent single month: highs near 17 °C, nights around 7 °C, and roughly 70 mm of rain across the month.
What rules months out here is temperature, not any composite judgement. January is the weakest month on these criteria.
Visitor numbers follow their own curve. Recorded overnight stays peak in the two weeks from 13 August at about 1.6 times an average fortnight for this region, against 0.5 times in January. March is the useful case: it is the most consistent month on the weather and still sits at 0.9 times average on occupancy. On the separate question of how much tourism the area carries all year, Seville sits in the 66th densest of 294 European regions, at 9.0 overnight stays per resident a year.
September sits just outside the window, with part of the month working and part not. These are usually the interesting weeks: conditions are close to the peak-season answer while prices and crowds are not. On recorded overnight stays that holds: September runs about 21% below the August peak. The map lets you check them fortnight by fortnight rather than trusting a monthly average.
What Andalusia is known for
- The Alhambra in Granada is the finest surviving Islamic palace complex in Europe; tickets sell out weeks ahead
- Seville's cathedral is the largest Gothic church in the world, with the Giralda minaret as its bell tower
- Cordoba's Mezquita layers a Renaissance cathedral inside a forest of Moorish arches
- Flamenco was born in this region and remains an everyday form here rather than a show
Month by month
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Precip mm | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13 | 5 | 67 | 8.7 |
| February | 15 | 6 | 60 | 7.2 |
| March | 17 | 7 | 70 | 9.1 |
| April | 19 | 10 | 60 | 8.5 |
| May | 23 | 13 | 40 | 6.2 |
| June | 28 | 17 | 14 | 2.4 |
| July | 32 | 20 | 1 | 0.6 |
| August | 32 | 20 | 8 | 1.3 |
| September | 28 | 17 | 32 | 4.6 |
| October | 22 | 13 | 63 | 7.9 |
| November | 17 | 9 | 78 | 8.0 |
| December | 14 | 6 | 80 | 8.3 |
Ticked rows are months where every hard requirement for a city trip is met across at least half the month.
Open Andalusia on the map →
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Nearby regions
Figures are 30-year climatology sampled at Seville, Granada, Cordoba, Malaga and Ronda, averaged across those locations, from ERA5-Land reanalysis fitted with a harmonic seasonal cycle and a trend term, evaluated for 2026. Sampling named towns rather than averaging the whole region avoids blending valley and mountain conditions into a figure true of neither. Cells are about 0.08° wide, from ERA5-Land's 0.1° grid, which is itself driven by a 0.25° (~28 km) atmospheric reanalysis — so individual valleys, sheltered bays and single summits are not resolved. In steep terrain read these as conditions for the wider area rather than for one village. They describe typical conditions, not a forecast. Read how the climatology is built.