Climate and average weather in Lugo

In Lugo, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid June to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lugo typically varies from 4°C to 24°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 29°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Aug
24°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
119 mm
Driest
Jul
25 mm
Rain / yr
944 mm
127 wet days
Daylight
8.8–15.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
465 m
43.0°N
Clearest
Aug
48% cloud

Lugo is city in Galicia, Spain.

Air quality
Good
PM2.5 8.4 µg/m³ · 2019

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

Lugo 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 June to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Lugo, 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 12 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Lugo is August, with an average high of 24°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 16 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in Lugo is January, with an average low of 4°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in August.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan104
Feb114
Mar145
Apr157
May189
Jun2112
Jul2313
Aug2414
Sep2112
Oct1710
Nov137
Dec115

Average hourly temperature in Lugo

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 24°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Lugo 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
Jan10° / 107130.69.22.1
Feb11° / 8110.40.910.22.7
Mar14° / 8611.60.411.63.7
Apr15° / 9113.30.113.14.1
May18° / 7412.4014.45.3
Jun21° / 12°488.1015.16.7
Jul23° / 13°254.9014.87.9
Aug24° / 14°355.9013.87.8
Sep21° / 12°558.3012.36.8
Oct17° / 10°10912.5010.85.2
Nov13° / 11914.10.19.53.1
Dec11° / 11512.80.38.92.4

Chance of rain

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

Lugo gets about 944 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.1 months, from around Oct 5 to Mar 7, peaking in November at about 47% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 22.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 119 mm over about 14 wet days; July is the driest, with 25 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 4 · 47%Jul 22 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4213
Feb3710
Mar3712
Apr4413
May4012
Jun278
Jul165
Aug196
Sep288
Oct4113
Nov4614
Dec4113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lugo collects about 944 mm of rain across 127 wet days — roughly 79 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 119 mm, while July is the driest at just 25 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1078186917448253555109119115
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan107131
Feb81101
Mar86120
Apr91130
May74120
Jun4880
Jul2550
Aug3560
Sep5580
Oct109130
Nov119140
Dec115130

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lugo, 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 21 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 6. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 7 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around March 12. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 71% 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 · 61%Jan 5 · 27%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2971
Feb3367
Mar3862
Apr3367
May3664
Jun4654
Jul5743
Aug5941
Sep5149
Oct3565
Nov2971
Dec3070

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 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 8 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.29:056:14
Feb10.28:376:52
Mar11.67:517:29
Apr13.16:558:06
May14.46:138:40
Jun15.15:569:05
Jul14.86:099:02
Aug13.86:418:28
Sep12.37:167:33
Oct10.87:516:39
Nov9.58:316:00
Dec8.99:015:52

Sunny days

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

Lugo averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Jun 2 to Oct 1. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 6 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 814 daysNov 65 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar8Mixed
Apr6Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun10Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug14Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

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 Lugo, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around June 9 to September 17. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 20% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 18 to June 8, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 22 · 100%Aug 16 · 78%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May91900
Jun623170
Jul3350161
Aug3248191
Sep573660
Oct841510
Nov98200
Dec100000

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 Lugo is steady company: average speeds sit near 12 km/hlight breeze — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 6 · 13 km/hSep 19 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct12calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Lugo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid September, Lugo 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 Lugo for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 8.2

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
Jan2.1poor
Feb2.7poor
Mar3.7fair
Apr4.1fair
May5.3fair
Jun6.7good
Jul7.9ideal
Aug7.8ideal
Sep6.8good
Oct5.2fair
Nov3.2poor
Dec2.4poor

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 Lugo for hot-weather activities is from early July to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 27 · 6.9

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 Lugo, 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 24°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 10°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Lugo sees daytime highs around 24°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Lugo 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 Lugo peaks around June 23 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 23UV 8Jan 1UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Lugo

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 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
Mar4.50
Apr6.51.5
May72.5
Jun8.55
Jul85
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Lugo 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 Lugo is worst in July — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.8× the cleanest month (November, 6 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Lugo's WHO annual average of 8.4 µg/m³.

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1715 µg/m³Nov 226 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb8Good
Mar10Good
Apr10Good
May7Good
Jun7Good
Jul16Moderate
Aug8Good
Sep8Good
Oct10Good
Nov6Good
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Lugo is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 28 to December 12 (288 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2890%Dec 1290%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8531
Feb8828
Mar964
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov970
Dec8920

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. Lugo banks about 1,159 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr22
May103
Jun188
Jul257
Aug269
Sep201
Oct109
Nov10
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.

Lugo receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 22. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 79% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 176.4 kWhDec 251.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.4Moderate
Mar3.7Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct2.8Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.3Dim

Where is Lugo?

Lugo sits at 43.0°N, 7.6°W, 465 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Monforte de Lemos, 54 km away.

Topography around Lugo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lugo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 150 m around an average of 438 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 444 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,928 m.

The land around Lugo is covered by trees (42%), grassland (28%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, trees (55%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) and grassland (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
150 m
16 km
444 m
80 km
1,928 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Monforte de Lemos 54 km · Lalín 60 km · Oleiros 71 km · Cambre 72 km · Viveiro 73 km · Culleredo 74 km · Narón 75 km · Villafranca del Bierzo 76 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 Lugo (43.0099°, -7.556°, elevation 465 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).