Climate and average weather in Ciutadella

In Ciutadella, the summers are humid, warm, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, breezy, and mostly clear.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ciutadella typically varies from 12°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 27°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ciutadella for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Feb
12°
Wettest
Nov
77 mm
Driest
Jul
3 mm
Rain / yr
437 mm
67 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
22 m
40.0°N
Clearest
Jul
15% cloud

Ciutadella is capital del municipio homónimo de Menorca, España.

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

Ciutadella 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 late May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.4 months, from June 22 to October 1, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Ciutadella is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 4.4 months, from December 5 to April 18, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Ciutadella is February, with an average low of 12°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 1°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1412
Feb1312
Mar1413
Apr1614
May1817
Jun2221
Jul2523
Aug2624
Sep2422
Oct2120
Nov1816
Dec1514

Average hourly temperature in Ciutadella

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 August afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 12°C.

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

Ciutadella 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° / 12°508.39.54.3
Feb13° / 12°407.110.44.1
Mar14° / 13°304.911.74.8
Apr16° / 14°315.8135.5
May18° / 17°244.214.27.1
Jun22° / 21°122.114.88.5
Jul25° / 23°30.814.59.3
Aug26° / 24°111.813.68.8
Sep24° / 22°456.312.37.9
Oct21° / 20°617.810.97.0
Nov18° / 16°77109.85.8
Dec15° / 14°548.49.24.9

Chance of rain

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

Ciutadella gets about 437 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 5.7 months, from around Sep 9 to Mar 2, peaking in November at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 6.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 77 mm over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 24 · 36%Jul 6 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb257
Mar175
Apr196
May144
Jun72
Jul31
Aug62
Sep206
Oct268
Nov3310
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ciutadella collects about 437 mm of rain across 67 wet days — roughly 36 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 77 mm, while July is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 44% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec50403031241231145617754
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan508
Feb407
Mar305
Apr316
May244
Jun122
Jul31
Aug112
Sep456
Oct618
Nov7710
Dec548

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ciutadella, 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 12 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around September 23. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 24 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 11. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 42% 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%Nov 26 · 56%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb6139
Mar6535
Apr6634
May7129
Jun8515
Jul946
Aug8812
Sep7426
Oct6238
Nov5941
Dec5842

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 9, brings about 14 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.58:105:38
Feb10.47:466:12
Mar11.77:046:44
Apr13.06:137:17
May14.25:357:47
Jun14.85:208:10
Jul14.55:338:08
Aug13.66:017:37
Sep12.36:316:47
Oct10.97:025:57
Nov9.87:375:22
Dec9.28:065:16

Sunny days

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

Ciutadella averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around May 15 to Sep 22. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 12 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2427 daysDec 1511 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr15Bright
May17Bright
Jun22Bright
Jul27Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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 Ciutadella, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around May 21 to October 28. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 95% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 29 to May 20, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 4 · 100%Aug 1 · 3%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9730000
Feb9910000
Mar9730000
Apr73261000
May274327200
Jun518383360
Jul071943301
Aug051836383
Sep6183032140
Oct2227311810
Nov612910100
Dec88120000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Ciutadella is typically breezy, near 20 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Oct 11 to Apr 16. The windiest month is December, averaging about 25 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 17 to Oct 10, with July the calmest month at about 15 km/h.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezywindyDec 23 · 25 km/hJul 20 · 15 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan24breezy
Feb24breezy
Mar22breezy
Apr20breezy
May17light breeze
Jun16light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug16light breeze
Sep18light breeze
Oct21breezy
Nov25breezy
Dec25breezy

Best time to visit Ciutadella

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Ciutadella 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 Ciutadella for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 8 · 9.4

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar4.8fair
Apr5.5good
May7.1good
Jun8.5ideal
Jul9.3ideal
Aug8.8ideal
Sep7.9ideal
Oct7.0good
Nov5.8good
Dec4.9fair

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 Ciutadella for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 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 Ciutadella, 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 August (highs near 26°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around February (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ciutadella sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 24°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes.

Sea temperature near Ciutadella

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 14 km away) is warmest in August at about 26°C and coldest in February near 14°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 5 to Nov 3 — about 5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan14Bracing
Feb14Bracing
Mar14Bracing
Apr15Cool
May18Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul24Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct22Refreshing
Nov19Cool
Dec16Cool

UV index (midday) in Ciutadella 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 Ciutadella peaks around July 15 at about 9 (very high) — 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 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 9Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Ciutadella

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 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
Feb20
Mar4.50
Apr5.50
May73
Jun8.55
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54
Sep61
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ciutadella 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. Ciutadella banks about 2,928 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan91
Feb68
Mar104
Apr146
May236
Jun335
Jul434
Aug464
Sep394
Oct321
Nov202
Dec133

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.

Ciutadella receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.9 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 287.5 kWhDec 181.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep4.8Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.4Moderate
Dec1.9Dim

Where is Ciutadella?

Ciutadella sits at 40.0°N, 3.8°E, 22 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Maó, 38 km away.

Topography around Ciutadella

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ciutadella has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 69 m around an average of 24 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 273 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,076 m.

The land around Ciutadella is covered by grassland (44%) within 3 km, water (70%) within 16 km, and water (84%) within 80 km.

3 km
69 m
16 km
273 m
80 km
1,076 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Maó 38 km · Alcúdia 64 km · Pollença 72 km · Manacor 72 km · Felanitx 84 km · Inca 85 km · Llucmajor 99 km · Marratxí 104 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 Ciutadella (40.0011°, 3.8414°, elevation 22 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).