Climate and average weather in Priego de Córdoba

In Priego de Córdoba, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: early April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Priego de Córdoba typically varies from 3°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 37°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 Priego de Córdoba for warm-weather activities are from early April to late June and early September to early November.

Hottest
Jul
33°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
81 mm
Driest
Jul
3 mm
Rain / yr
588 mm
79 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
661 m
37.4°N
Clearest
Jul
11% cloud

Priego de Córdoba is capital of Priego de Córdoba Municipality, Spain.

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

Priego de Córdoba 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 April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Priego de Córdoba, 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 14 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Priego de Córdoba is July, with an average high of 33°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 13 to March 9, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Priego de Córdoba is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 13°C.

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

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan133
Feb144
Mar176
Apr198
May2412
Jun2916
Jul3319
Aug3219
Sep2815
Oct2211
Nov167
Dec134

How hot and cold Priego de Córdoba 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, Priego de Córdoba feels like about 33°C (around July 29). About 47 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan131313
Feb141424
Mar171746
Apr191978
May24241112
Jun29291616
Jul33331819
Aug32321919
Sep28281515
Oct22221111
Nov161657
Dec131324

Average hourly temperature in Priego de Córdoba

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Priego de Córdoba 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
Jan13° / 678.89.73.7
Feb14° / 628.210.64.4
Mar17° / 678.811.75.8
Apr19° / 619.712.96.4
May24° / 12°467.1147.5
Jun29° / 16°172.714.57.1
Jul33° / 19°30.714.35.0
Aug32° / 19°81.713.45.0
Sep28° / 15°374.812.37.1
Oct22° / 11°648.6117.0
Nov16° / 768.9105.4
Dec13° / 818.69.54.0

Chance of rain

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

Priego de Córdoba gets about 588 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 Sep 30 to May 19, peaking in October at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 21.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 81 mm over about 9 wet days; July is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetOct 22 · 33%Jul 21 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb298
Mar299
Apr3210
May237
Jun93
Jul31
Aug62
Sep155
Oct299
Nov299
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Priego de Córdoba collects about 588 mm of rain across 79 wet days — roughly 49 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 81 mm, while July is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6762676146173837647681
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan679
Feb628
Mar679
Apr6110
May467
Jun173
Jul31
Aug82
Sep375
Oct649
Nov769
Dec819

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Priego de Córdoba, 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 20 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around October 4. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 96% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 5 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 49% 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 23 · 97%Dec 14 · 49%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5446
Feb5644
Mar5347
Apr5347
May6436
Jun8317
Jul964
Aug928
Sep7426
Oct5941
Nov5446
Dec5149

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 14, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 9 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.78:366:17
Feb10.68:146:48
Mar11.77:357:17
Apr12.96:487:46
May14.06:138:13
Jun14.56:008:34
Jul14.36:128:33
Aug13.46:378:04
Sep12.37:047:18
Oct11.07:316:32
Nov10.08:036:01
Dec9.58:305:56

Sunny days

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

Priego de Córdoba averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around May 26 to Sep 19. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 11 sunny days — about 59% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2228 daysDec 911 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun21Bright
Jul28Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
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 Priego de Córdoba, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around June 17 to September 28. 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 29 to June 16, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 3 · 100%Aug 13 · 79%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May891100
Jun623450
Jul4541130
Aug3942191
Sep513990
Oct791920
Nov97300
Dec99100

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 Priego de Córdoba is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 8 · 8 km/hSep 27 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Priego de Córdoba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 27 · 7.8

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
Jan3.7fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar5.8good
Apr6.4good
May7.5good
Jun7.1good
Jul5.1fair
Aug5.0fair
Sep7.1good
Oct7.0good
Nov5.4fair
Dec4.0fair

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 Priego de Córdoba for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 25 · 8.8

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 Priego de Córdoba, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Priego de Córdoba sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Priego de Córdoba 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 Priego de Córdoba peaks around July 17 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 2 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 10Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar7High
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Priego de Córdoba

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
Mar62.5
Apr7.54
May7.54
Jun8.55
Jul8.56
Aug7.55
Sep6.53
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Priego de Córdoba is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 22 to December 6 (288 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2290%Dec 690%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7931
Feb8724
Mar980
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov970
Dec8625

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. Priego de Córdoba banks about 2,325 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
Mar48
Apr114
May234
Jun365
Jul482
Aug480
Sep344
Oct210
Nov47
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.

Priego de Córdoba receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 21. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 58.0 kWhDec 192.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.8Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.9Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul8.0Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Priego de Córdoba?

Priego de Córdoba sits at 37.4°N, 4.2°W, 661 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Cabra, 22 km away.

Topography around Priego de Córdoba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Priego de Córdoba has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 389 m around an average of 665 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,188 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,676 m.

The land around Priego de Córdoba is covered by trees (69%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (56%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
389 m
16 km
1,188 m
80 km
2,676 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Cabra 22 km · Baena 23 km · Alcalá la Real 24 km · Lucena 26 km · Loja 30 km · Martos 37 km · Montilla 42 km · Santafé 50 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 Priego de Córdoba (37.4381°, -4.1952°, elevation 661 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).