Climate and average weather in Campo de Criptana

In Campo de Criptana, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: mid April to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Campo de Criptana typically varies from 2°C to 34°C, and is rarely below -3°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 Campo de Criptana for warm-weather activities are from mid April to mid June and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
34°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
45 mm
Driest
Jul
7 mm
Rain / yr
366 mm
68 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
711 m
39.4°N
Clearest
Jul
17% cloud

Campo de Criptana is capital of Campo de Criptana Municipality, Spain.

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

Campo de Criptana 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 mid April to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.0 months, from June 11 to September 10, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Campo de Criptana is July, with an average high of 34°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 11 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Campo de Criptana is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 11°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)
Jan112
Feb133
Mar175
Apr198
May2412
Jun3017
Jul3420
Aug3319
Sep2815
Oct2111
Nov156
Dec113

How hot and cold Campo de Criptana 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, Campo de Criptana feels like about 35°C (around July 24). About 65 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around January 18), with roughly 69 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan1111-12
Feb131303
Mar171735
Apr191968
May24241212
Jun30301717
Jul34342020
Aug33331919
Sep28281515
Oct21211011
Nov151536
Dec111103

Average hourly temperature in Campo de Criptana

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Campo de Criptana weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan11° / 326.90.59.52.8
Feb13° / 3160.410.53.9
Mar17° / 376.80.211.75.8
Apr19° / 448.30.1136.4
May24° / 12°367.3014.17.4
Jun30° / 17°183.7014.76.1
Jul34° / 20°71.5014.53.9
Aug33° / 19°92.2013.54.2
Sep28° / 15°213.9012.37.2
Oct21° / 11°447.20117.1
Nov15° / 456.709.84.8
Dec11° / 437.30.49.33.1

Chance of rain

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

Campo de Criptana gets about 366 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 7.6 months, from around Oct 7 to May 26, peaking in April at about 29% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 18.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 45 mm over about 7 wet days; July is the driest, with 7 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetApr 14 · 29%Jul 18 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb216
Mar227
Apr288
May237
Jun134
Jul52
Aug72
Sep124
Oct237
Nov237
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Campo de Criptana collects about 366 mm of rain across 68 wet days — roughly 31 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 45 mm, while July is the driest at just 7 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3231374436187921444543
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3271
Feb3160
Mar3770
Apr4480
May3670
Jun1840
Jul720
Aug920
Sep2140
Oct4470
Nov4570
Dec4370

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Campo de Criptana, 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 24 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around October 7. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 8 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around May 23. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 50% 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 · 95%Dec 11 · 49%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb5248
Mar5248
Apr5050
May5842
Jun7723
Jul937
Aug9010
Sep7327
Oct5743
Nov5149
Dec5050

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 15, brings about 14 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 9 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.58:376:07
Feb10.58:136:41
Mar11.77:327:13
Apr13.06:427:44
May14.16:048:13
Jun14.75:508:36
Jul14.56:028:34
Aug13.56:308:03
Sep12.36:597:14
Oct11.07:296:26
Nov9.88:045:52
Dec9.38:325:46

Sunny days

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

Campo de Criptana 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 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Jun 1 to Oct 4. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is May, down near 12 sunny days — about 54% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2426 daysMay 29 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul26Brilliant
Aug24Brilliant
Sep17Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov11Mixed
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 Campo de Criptana, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% 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 (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9820
Jun9460
Jul9370
Aug85142
Sep84142
Oct9090
Nov9910
Dec10000

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

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 2 · 13 km/hSep 19 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Campo de Criptana

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, Campo de Criptana 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 Campo de Criptana for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid April to mid June and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 30 · 8.0

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
Jan2.9poor
Feb4.0fair
Mar5.7good
Apr6.4good
May7.3good
Jun6.1good
Jul3.9fair
Aug4.3fair
Sep7.1good
Oct7.1good
Nov4.8fair
Dec3.1poor

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 Campo de Criptana for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 8 · 8.3

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 Campo de Criptana, 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 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 11°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Campo de Criptana sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Campo de Criptana 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 Campo de Criptana peaks around July 16 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 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 highVery highHighModerateJul 16UV 10Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Campo de Criptana

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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
Mar5.50
Apr73
May73
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep6.52.5
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Campo de Criptana is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 3 to November 22 (265 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 390%Nov 2290%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7131
Feb8028
Mar963
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov949
Dec7931

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. Campo de Criptana banks about 2,359 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar32
Apr104
May245
Jun397
Jul524
Aug506
Sep344
Oct185
Nov23
Dec0

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.

Campo de Criptana receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 7.9 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 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 74% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 67.9 kWhDec 172.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.7Intense
Jul7.9Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep5.3Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.0Dim

Where is Campo de Criptana?

Campo de Criptana sits at 39.4°N, 3.1°W, 711 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Alcázar de San Juan, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Campo de Criptana

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Campo de Criptana has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 117 m around an average of 708 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 151 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 781 m.

The land around Campo de Criptana is covered by cropland (62%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, cropland (80%) within 16 km, and cropland (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
117 m
16 km
151 m
80 km
781 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Alcázar de San Juan 7.0 km · Tomelloso 29 km · Villarrobledo 47 km · Manzanares 50 km · La Solana 52 km · Daimiel 56 km · Tarancón 68 km · Valdepeñas 75 km

Spain travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 65% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$38,627
2025
Happiness
6.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
3.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 540
Religion
Roman Catholic 58%atheist 16%agnostic 11%non-believer 11%

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 Campo de Criptana (39.4046°, -3.1249°, elevation 711 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).