Climate and average weather in Málaga

In Málaga, the weather is mild, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near mild levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Málaga typically varies from 11°C to 20°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 23°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Málaga for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and early December to late December.

Hottest
Feb
20°
Coldest
Jul
12°
Wettest
May
598 mm
Driest
Jan
152 mm
Rain / yr
4602 mm
337 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,210 m
6.7°N
Clearest
Jan
67% cloud

Málaga weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Málaga, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Málaga stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 20°C and low of 11°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 12°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2011
Feb2011
Mar2012
Apr2012
May2012
Jun1912
Jul1912
Aug2011
Sep2011
Oct2011
Nov2011
Dec2011

Average hourly temperature in Málaga

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 20°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 12°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Málaga weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan20° / 11°15222.511.74.5
Feb20° / 11°18022.511.84.2
Mar20° / 12°28027.4123.7
Apr20° / 12°46929.212.13.2
May20° / 12°59830.712.33.1
Jun19° / 12°5413012.43.1
Jul19° / 12°50730.812.43.1
Aug20° / 11°47430.812.23.1
Sep20° / 11°40029.7123.2
Oct20° / 11°43630.711.93.1
Nov20° / 11°36828.511.73.4
Dec20° / 11°19824.511.64.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Málaga gets about 4602 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.9 months, from around Apr 1 to Nov 25, peaking in June at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 598 mm over about 31 wet days; January is the driest, with 152 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 12 · 100%Jan 1 · 69%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7323
Feb8023
Mar8927
Apr9729
May9931
Jun10030
Jul10031
Aug10031
Sep9930
Oct9931
Nov9529
Dec7925

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Málaga collects about 4602 mm of rain across 337 wet days — roughly 383 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 598 mm, while January is the driest at just 152 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec152180280469598541507474400436368198
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan15223
Feb18023
Mar28027
Apr46929
May59831
Jun54130
Jul50731
Aug47431
Sep40030
Oct43631
Nov36829
Dec19825

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Málaga, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 29 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 29. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 35% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 30 and lasts for 8.0 months, ending around November 28. The cloudiest month is May, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 3 · 38%May 9 · 1%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3565
Feb2773
Mar1486
Apr496
May199
Jun298
Jul397
Aug397
Sep397
Oct397
Nov793
Dec2476

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 29, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:115:50
Feb11.86:125:59
Mar12.06:025:59
Apr12.15:475:56
May12.35:385:56
Jun12.45:406:03
Jul12.45:466:07
Aug12.25:486:02
Sep12.05:445:46
Oct11.95:405:31
Nov11.75:465:27
Dec11.65:595:35

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Málaga averages about 1 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 4 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Dec 2 to Mar 28. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 4 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is April, down near 0 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the January peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 24 daysApr 160 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May0Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Málaga, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in February, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan964
Feb919
Mar8119
Apr6139
May5248
Jun6931
Jul8416
Aug8713
Sep919
Oct8614
Nov8416
Dec946

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Málaga is steady company: average speeds sit near 3 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJan 1 · 3 km/hApr 24 · 2 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan3calm
Feb3calm
Mar3calm
Apr2calm
May2calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep2calm
Oct2calm
Nov2calm
Dec3calm

Best time to visit Málaga

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Málaga throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early March, Málaga is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Málaga for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 4.7

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.5fair
Feb4.2fair
Mar3.7fair
Apr3.2poor
May3.1poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.1poor
Nov3.4poor
Dec4.2fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Málaga for hot-weather activities is from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 2.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Málaga, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Málaga packs about the same all year — highs hold near 20°C. Across the year the things worth having are rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Málaga sees daytime highs around 20°C and nights near 11°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Málaga by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Málaga peaks around February 18 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 12 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 18UV 16Dec 12UV 12
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb17Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May15Extreme
Jun14Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep15Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Málaga

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan86.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86.5
Sep8.56.5
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Málaga by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Málaga is worst in March — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (December, 12 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1824 µg/m³Dec 1212 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb18Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr19Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Málaga is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Málaga banks about 2,045 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan168
Feb158
Mar186
Apr181
May186
Jun171
Jul171
Aug167
Sep158
Oct165
Nov164
Dec170

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Málaga receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.2 and 5.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightFeb 175.4 kWhJun 194.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.2Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.4Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Málaga?

Málaga sits at 6.7°N, 72.7°W, 2,210 m above sea level, in Colombia. The nearest listed city is San Gil, 47 km away.

Topography around Málaga

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Málaga.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Málaga has very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,387 m around an average of 2,194 m above sea level; within 16 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,012 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,139 m.

The land around Málaga is covered by grassland (60%) and trees (35%) within 3 km, grassland (69%) and trees (29%) within 16 km, and grassland (50%) and trees (47%) within 80 km.

3 km
1,387 m
16 km
3,012 m
80 km
5,139 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: San Gil 47 km · Piedecuesta 48 km · Floridablanca 56 km · Girón 63 km · Socorro 64 km · Bucaramanga 64 km · Pamplona 76 km · El Carmen de Chucurí 86 km

Colombia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 / 240 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,562
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
74%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
24.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
15.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 480
Religion
Roman Catholic 64%Protestant 17%none 14%atheist 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Málaga (6.699°, -72.7323°, elevation 2,210 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).