Climate and average weather in Oliva

In Oliva, the summers are muggy, warm, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Oliva typically varies from 11°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 8°C or above 28°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 Oliva for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
11°
Wettest
Sep
87 mm
Driest
Jul
8 mm
Rain / yr
587 mm
63 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
22 m
38.9°N
Clearest
Jul
19% cloud

Oliva is capital town of the municipality of Oliva, Spain.

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

Oliva 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 May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Oliva, 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 20 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Oliva is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 4.5 months, from November 26 to April 11, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Oliva is January, with an average low of 11°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1411
Feb1411
Mar1512
Apr1714
May1917
Jun2320
Jul2623
Aug2624
Sep2422
Oct2119
Nov1815
Dec1512

Average hourly temperature in Oliva

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 January, near 11°C.

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

Oliva 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° / 11°626.39.64.6
Feb14° / 11°425.210.54.6
Mar15° / 12°475.511.75.3
Apr17° / 14°445.1136.1
May19° / 17°293.714.17.4
Jun23° / 20°142.614.78.6
Jul26° / 23°81.614.48.9
Aug26° / 24°253.613.58.2
Sep24° / 22°877.712.37.6
Oct21° / 19°857.6117.1
Nov18° / 15°737.79.96.2
Dec15° / 12°726.79.35.0

Chance of rain

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

Oliva gets about 587 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 4.0 months, from around Aug 30 to Dec 30, peaking in October at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 15.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 87 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetOct 15 · 27%Jul 15 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb195
Mar186
Apr175
May124
Jun93
Jul52
Aug124
Sep248
Oct268
Nov258
Dec227

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Oliva collects about 587 mm of rain across 63 wet days — roughly 49 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 87 mm, while July is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec62424744291482587857372
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan626
Feb425
Mar476
Apr445
May294
Jun143
Jul82
Aug254
Sep878
Oct858
Nov738
Dec727

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Oliva, 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 3.8 months, ending around September 12. 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 September 13 and lasts for 8.2 months, ending around May 20. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 37% 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 22 · 95%Dec 4 · 62%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb6832
Mar6832
Apr6733
May7030
Jun8416
Jul937
Aug8614
Sep7129
Oct6436
Nov6436
Dec6337

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 10, 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)
Jan9.68:235:56
Feb10.58:006:30
Mar11.77:207:01
Apr13.06:307:31
May14.15:538:00
Jun14.75:398:22
Jul14.45:528:20
Aug13.56:197:51
Sep12.36:477:02
Oct11.07:176:14
Nov9.97:515:41
Dec9.38:185:35

Sunny days

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

Oliva averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 14 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.1 months, from around Jun 6 to Sep 8. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 14 sunny days — about 44% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2327 daysDec 1514 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr15Bright
May16Bright
Jun21Bright
Jul26Brilliant
Aug23Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct15Bright
Nov15Bright
Dec15Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around May 22 to October 26. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to May 21, 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 9 · 100%Jul 27 · 1%oppressivehumidcomfortablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9910000
Apr77231000
May274526200
Jun415373860
Jul121140442
Aug02730583
Sep7102344170
Oct2326351600
Nov67267000
Dec9640000

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 Oliva is typically light breeze, near 15 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Oct 31 to Apr 30. The windiest month is January, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 1 to Oct 30, with August the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 28 · 17 km/hAug 23 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov16light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Best time to visit Oliva

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Oliva 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 Oliva for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 29 · 9.0

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
Jan4.6fair
Feb4.6fair
Mar5.3fair
Apr6.1good
May7.4good
Jun8.5ideal
Jul8.9ideal
Aug8.2ideal
Sep7.7ideal
Oct7.1good
Nov6.2good
Dec5.0fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 25 · 8.4

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 Oliva, 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 January (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Oliva sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 24°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 4 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Oliva

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 22 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 4 to Nov 3 — about 5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan15Bracing
Feb14Bracing
Mar14Bracing
Apr16Cool
May18Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct22Refreshing
Nov19Cool
Dec16Cool

UV index (midday) in Oliva 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 Oliva peaks around July 16 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 16UV 9Dec 18UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Oliva

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
Mar5.50
Apr73
May73
Jun8.55
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep62
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Oliva 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. Oliva banks about 2,893 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)
Jan69
Feb63
Mar107
Apr155
May248
Jun349
Jul447
Aug470
Sep392
Oct306
Nov181
Dec106

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.

Oliva receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 267.5 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.8Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.6Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Oliva?

Oliva sits at 38.9°N, 0.1°W, 22 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Gandia, 8.0 km away.

Topography around Oliva

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Oliva has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 349 m around an average of 38 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,002 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,543 m.

The land around Oliva is covered by trees (46%) and grassland (26%) within 3 km, water (37%) and trees (32%) within 16 km, and water (41%) and trees (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
349 m
16 km
1,002 m
80 km
1,543 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Gandia 8.0 km · Tavernes de la Valldigna 21 km · Denia 21 km · Javea 29 km · Cullera 30 km · Calp 34 km · la Nucia 34 km · Xàtiva 35 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 Oliva (38.9197°, -0.1193°, 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).