Costa del Sol Towns

Climate

Climate Malaga (Airport)

Malaga has a Mediterranean subtropical moist climate. The average annual temperature is 18 ° C with an average maximum of 25.4 ° C in August and the average minimum of 11.9 ° C in January. The mild winter climate dominates, with virtually no frost, and summers are hot, and typically more humid when it blows the Terral dry winds from the interior, which trigger higher temperatures. In these situations Malaga has reached 44 ° C (1978 and 1994).

The average humidity of 66%, with 43 days of rain per year, concentrated in the colder months, between November and January fell 50% in mean annual precipitation, which is 524 mm. The irregularity of rainfall is expressed in episodes of torrential highly infectious bouts, holding the record for the 313 mm in Malaga at the observatory's airport on September 27, 1957, and the flooding of November 14, 1989. Generally, there are 2815 hours per year of sunshine.

Malaga Airport

1971-2000                      Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct         Nov  Dec
Temp. Maximum (° C) 16.6 17.7 19.1 20.9 23.8 27.3 29.9 30.3 27.9 23.7 19.9 17.4 average 22.9
Temp. Minimum (° C)   7.3 7.9 9.0 10.4 13.4 17.1 19.7 20.5 18.2 14.3 10.8 8.4 13.1
Rainfall (mm)                81 55 49 41 25 12 2 6 16 56 95 88 524

Despite the altitude and remote location of the meteorological station, situated at the airport, there remains a high value on the data collected, which is significantly different from that collected in the city.