NocheTropical.es · Winter in Spain

9 winters · AEMET data

Winter in Spain, measured

Not “mild” as a brochure adjective. Mild as a count: how many nights the heating goes on, how many mornings there is frost on the car, how many days are warm enough to sit outside — at 838 AEMET weather stations, winter by winter, over 9 winters.

A Spanish winter runs here from 1 November to 31 March: 151 days. And it is not one winter but many: at the median station 30 of those 151 days are warm enough to sit outside, while Tuineje, Puerto Gran Tarajal manages all 151. That spread is the whole point — which is why the useful question is not “how is winter in Spain” but how is winter where you are going.

155
stations that have never recorded a single frost, in any winter measured
69
stations where more than 100 of the 151 winter days are warm enough to sit outside. The median station gets 30 of 151
137
nights below 10 °C at that median station — the ones you heat. At Yaiza Playa Blanca it is none at all

There are no shoulder months. November and March are 40.4 % of the winter and take 37.2 % of the heating nights — almost exactly their share. The cold is not concentrated in December-February; it is spread. Frost is the exception: 22.8 % of it falls in those two months, a little over half their share. So an October-to-April stay is not two mild months wrapped around three hard ones.

Start with the question you actually have

4,113 towns

I already know the town

Type it and get its numbers month by month, from its own weather station — with the distance and altitude difference shown, because the figure belongs to the station and not to the town square.

I know what I want, not where

Set your own thresholds — terrace days, heating nights, frost, rain — pick the month you arrive and how long you stay, and see which stations clear them.

Where it simply does not freeze

Towns whose reference station recorded no night at or below 0 °C, judged one winter at a time. The threshold moves from −4 to 20 °C if frost is not your line.

How the cities compare

Eight Spanish cities side by side on frost nights, nights below 5 °C and nights below 10 °C. The gap between them is larger than the brochures suggest.

I am staying three months

For a long stay the median lies: what decides is the longest run with no day warm enough to sit outside. Across the mainland and Balearics that run is 90 days at the median — and only eight stations keep it short without freezing you.

I want both halves of the year

Mild winter and a summer you can sleep through are close to incompatible on the mainland: the correlation is −0.70. Two stations in all of Spain manage both, and both are in the Canaries.

What “mild” is worth as a label

The Mild Winter seal goes to the stations that clear a fixed bar rather than the ones that rank highest: it is a threshold, not a league table, so a place either clears it or does not. 67 hold it.

Everything on these pages comes from AEMET's official daily records — the day's high and low at a named station. Nothing is interpolated, modelled or averaged across neighbours. Where a figure is a median we say so, and where the extreme matters more than the middle we publish the extreme.