Climate and average weather in Huesca

In Huesca, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early May to late July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Huesca typically varies from 0°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 34°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 Huesca for warm-weather activities are from early May to late July and early August to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
29°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
110 mm
Driest
Feb
41 mm
Rain / yr
854 mm
104 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
476 m
42.1°N
Clearest
Jul
28% cloud

Huesca is city in Aragon, Spain.

Air quality
Good
PM2.5 9.6 µg/m³ · 2019
Founded
1096

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

Huesca 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 May to late July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.1 months, from June 10 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Huesca is July, with an average high of 29°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 13 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in Huesca is January, with an average low of 0°C and high of 9°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan90
Feb111
Mar143
Apr175
May219
Jun2613
Jul2916
Aug2915
Sep2412
Oct198
Nov134
Dec91

How hot and cold Huesca 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -3°C (around February 2), with roughly 110 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan99-20
Feb1111-21
Mar141403
Apr171735
May212189
Jun26261313
Jul29291616
Aug29291515
Sep24241212
Oct191968
Nov131314
Dec99-21

Average hourly temperature in Huesca

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Huesca 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
Jan / 568.91.89.31.9
Feb11° / 416.81.610.32.8
Mar14° / 6590.911.64.4
Apr17° / 9111.10.313.15.2
May21° / 9010.9014.46.4
Jun26° / 13°658.50157.2
Jul29° / 16°456.9014.86.3
Aug29° / 15°647.6013.76.4
Sep24° / 12°888.4012.37.3
Oct19° / 1109.5010.86.1
Nov13° / 828.80.39.63.6
Dec / 578.1192.1

Chance of rain

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

Huesca gets about 854 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 2.9 months, from around Mar 20 to Jun 14, peaking in May at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 14.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 110 mm over about 10 wet days; February is the driest, with 41 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 7 · 39%Jul 14 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb257
Mar299
Apr3711
May3611
Jun289
Jul227
Aug248
Sep288
Oct3110
Nov299
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Huesca collects about 854 mm of rain across 104 wet days — roughly 71 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 110 mm, while February is the driest at just 41 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5641659190654564881108257
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5692
Feb4172
Mar6591
Apr91110
May90110
Jun6590
Jul4570
Aug6480
Sep8880
Oct110100
Nov8290
Dec5781

Snow in Huesca

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Huesca averages about 6 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 23 to Apr 4 — about 4.4 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.7 days of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 20 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 2
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan25
Feb26
Mar12
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec15

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Huesca, 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 June 8 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around October 3. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 4 and lasts for 8.1 months, ending around June 7. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 47% 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 21 · 90%May 2 · 50%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb5842
Mar5743
Apr5347
May5644
Jun7327
Jul8812
Aug8218
Sep7129
Oct5545
Nov5347
Dec5347

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 16, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 8 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.38:345:48
Feb10.38:076:25
Mar11.67:227:01
Apr13.16:287:36
May14.45:468:09
Jun15.05:308:34
Jul14.85:448:31
Aug13.76:147:57
Sep12.36:487:04
Oct10.87:226:12
Nov9.68:005:34
Dec9.08:305:26

Sunny days

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

Huesca averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Jun 9 to Sep 30. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 11 sunny days — about 47% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2222 daysMay 410 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct12Mixed
Nov11Mixed
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 Huesca, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 11% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 2 · 100%Aug 6 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun78202
Jul59347
Aug513811
Sep74233
Oct9370
Nov10000
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 Huesca is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 3 · 10 km/hAug 18 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Huesca

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Huesca 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 Huesca for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to late July and again from early August to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 14 · 7.4

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
Jan1.9poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar4.4fair
Apr5.2fair
May6.4good
Jun7.2good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.4good
Sep7.3good
Oct6.1good
Nov3.7fair
Dec2.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 15 · 8.0

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 Huesca, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 9°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Huesca sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Huesca 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 Huesca peaks around July 15 at about 10 (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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 10Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5High
Apr6High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Huesca

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
Feb00
Mar50
Apr6.51.5
May7.53
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep61
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Huesca is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 27 to November 9 (228 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2790%Nov 990%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5531
Feb5928
Mar8326
Apr960
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov8421
Dec6431

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. Huesca banks about 1,556 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr27
May152
Jun284
Jul384
Aug373
Sep236
Oct100
Nov1
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.

Huesca receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 21. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.8 kWh/m² — roughly 75% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 307.5 kWhDec 201.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.1Moderate
Feb3.1Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.7Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.3Moderate
Nov2.3Moderate
Dec1.8Dim

Where is Huesca?

Huesca sits at 42.1°N, 0.4°W, 476 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Barbastro, 46 km away.

Topography around Huesca

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Huesca has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 103 m around an average of 464 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,175 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,152 m.

The land around Huesca is covered by cropland (59%) within 3 km, cropland (63%) within 16 km, and cropland (35%), trees (34%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
103 m
16 km
1,175 m
80 km
3,152 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Barbastro 46 km · Monzón 56 km · Ejea de los Caballeros 60 km · Zaragoza 66 km · Almozara 67 km · Delicias 68 km · Utebo 68 km · Oliver-Valdefierro 70 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 Huesca (42.1362°, -0.4087°, elevation 476 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).