Climate and average weather in Évora

In Évora, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: early March to early July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Évora typically varies from 6°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 2°C or above 38°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Évora for warm-weather activities are from early March to early July and early September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
32°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
79 mm
Driest
Jul
2 mm
Rain / yr
552 mm
73 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
242 m
38.6°N
Clearest
Jul
15% cloud

Évora is city seat of Évora municipality.

Air quality
Excellent
PM2.5 4.1 µg/m³ · 2019

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Évora 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 March to early July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from June 12 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Évora is July, with an average high of 32°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 15 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Évora is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan146
Feb157
Mar189
Apr2010
May2412
Jun2915
Jul3217
Aug3217
Sep2816
Oct2313
Nov1710
Dec147

How hot and cold Évora really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Évora feels like about 33°C (around July 30). About 38 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan141446
Feb151557
Mar181879
Apr2020910
May24241212
Jun28291515
Jul32321717
Aug32321717
Sep28281616
Oct23231313
Nov1717810
Dec141457

Average hourly temperature in Évora

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 July afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Évora 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
Jan14° / 598.19.64.2
Feb15° / 506.910.55.0
Mar18° / 587.611.76.3
Apr20° / 10°618.5136.6
May24° / 12°477.414.17.4
Jun29° / 15°122.614.67.1
Jul32° / 17°20.714.45.4
Aug32° / 17°41.213.55.3
Sep28° / 16°314.712.37.0
Oct23° / 13°798.4117.1
Nov17° / 10°728.59.95.8
Dec14° / 778.49.44.4

Chance of rain

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

Évora gets about 552 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.9 months, from around Sep 26 to May 24, peaking in October at about 31% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 23.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 79 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetOct 23 · 31%Jul 23 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb247
Mar258
Apr289
May237
Jun93
Jul31
Aug41
Sep155
Oct288
Nov289
Dec288

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Évora collects about 552 mm of rain across 73 wet days — roughly 46 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 79 mm, while July is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5950586147122431797277
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan598
Feb507
Mar588
Apr619
May477
Jun123
Jul21
Aug41
Sep315
Oct798
Nov729
Dec778

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Évora, 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 May 27 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 4. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 5 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 26. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 53% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 24 · 94%Dec 16 · 46%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb5149
Mar5347
Apr5050
May5941
Jun7624
Jul928
Aug919
Sep7525
Oct5545
Nov5248
Dec4753

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 June 13, brings about 14 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.67:535:28
Feb10.57:316:01
Mar11.76:516:32
Apr13.06:027:02
May14.15:257:31
Jun14.65:127:52
Jul14.45:247:51
Aug13.55:507:21
Sep12.36:196:33
Oct11.06:475:46
Nov9.97:215:13
Dec9.47:485:07

Sunny days

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

Évora averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Jun 4 to Sep 30. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 10 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2427 daysApr 229 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul26Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep17Bright
Oct12Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Évora, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 13% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 11 · 100%Sep 20 · 85%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9820
Feb9910
Mar9910
Apr9550
May82172
Jun64324
Jul52426
Aug464211
Sep543313
Oct612910
Nov85122
Dec9460

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 Évora is steady company: average speeds sit near 11 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 31 · 12 km/hSep 22 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Évora

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Évora is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 times of year to visit Évora for general outdoor tourist activities run from early March to early July and again from early September to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of May.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 30 · 7.7

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
Jan4.2fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar6.3good
Apr6.6good
May7.4good
Jun7.1good
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.3fair
Sep6.9good
Oct7.0good
Nov5.8good
Dec4.5fair

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 Évora for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 27 · 8.8

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 Évora, 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.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Évora sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Évora 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 Évora peaks around July 13 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJul 13UV 9Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr8Very high
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Évora

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 July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar60.5
Apr74
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul85.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep61.5
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Évora 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
Jan980
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec990

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. Évora banks about 2,533 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan2
Feb28
Mar107
Apr150
May252
Jun356
Jul448
Aug456
Sep360
Oct249
Nov101
Dec25

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.

Évora receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 7.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 22. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 127.8 kWhDec 222.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.6Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug6.9Intense
Sep5.3Bright
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.0Moderate

Where is Évora?

Évora sits at 38.6°N, 7.9°W, 242 m above sea level, in Portugal. The nearest listed city is Beja, 61 km away.

Topography around Évora

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Évora has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 119 m around an average of 260 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 244 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 622 m.

The land around Évora is covered by grassland (50%) and artificial surfaces (28%) within 3 km, grassland (67%) within 16 km, and grassland (64%) and trees (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
119 m
16 km
244 m
80 km
622 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Beja 61 km · Setúbal 86 km · Palmela 87 km · Pinhal Novo 88 km · Badajoz 88 km · Portalegre 91 km · Montijo 94 km · Moita 95 km

Portugal travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 60% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$32,082
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
95%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.7
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
8.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 612
Religion
Catholic 68%not applicable 13%no religion 12%no response 2%

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 Évora (38.5659°, -7.904°, elevation 242 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).