Climate and average weather in Ronda

In Ronda, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: early May to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ronda typically varies from 5°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 0°C or above 35°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 Ronda for warm-weather activities are from early May to mid July and late August to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
124 mm
Driest
Jul
2 mm
Rain / yr
800 mm
80 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
718 m
36.7°N
Clearest
Jul
9% cloud

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

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

Ronda 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 mid July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.8 months, from June 17 to September 10, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Ronda is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 4.1 months, from November 13 to March 17, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Ronda is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan125
Feb135
Mar167
Apr189
May2212
Jun2616
Jul3019
Aug3019
Sep2616
Oct2112
Nov168
Dec136

Average hourly temperature in Ronda

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Ronda 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
Jan12° / 8899.83.5
Feb13° / 79810.64.0
Mar16° / 949.111.75.2
Apr18° / 799.712.95.9
May22° / 12°577.713.97.2
Jun26° / 16°182.514.58.3
Jul30° / 19°20.514.36.6
Aug30° / 19°81.213.46.5
Sep26° / 16°495.312.27.8
Oct21° / 12°98911.16.8
Nov16° / 1058.8105.2
Dec13° / 12499.53.9

Chance of rain

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

Ronda gets about 800 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 7.8 months, from around Sep 28 to May 21, peaking in October at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 23.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 124 mm over about 9 wet days; July is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetOct 20 · 33%Jul 23 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb308
Mar299
Apr3210
May248
Jun93
Jul21
Aug41
Sep175
Oct309
Nov299
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ronda collects about 800 mm of rain across 80 wet days — roughly 67 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 124 mm, while July is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec887994795718284998105124
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan889
Feb798
Mar949
Apr7910
May578
Jun183
Jul21
Aug81
Sep495
Oct989
Nov1059
Dec1249

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ronda, 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 19 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around September 28. 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 September 29 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around May 18. 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 21 · 97%Dec 18 · 50%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb5743
Mar5545
Apr5644
May6634
Jun8416
Jul964
Aug928
Sep7525
Oct5842
Nov5644
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 10, brings about 14 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 5 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.88:386:22
Feb10.68:176:53
Mar11.77:397:22
Apr12.96:537:49
May13.96:188:16
Jun14.56:068:36
Jul14.36:188:35
Aug13.46:428:07
Sep12.27:087:22
Oct11.17:346:37
Nov10.08:066:06
Dec9.58:326:02

Sunny days

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

Ronda 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 3.9 months, from around May 26 to Sep 20. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is October, down near 13 sunny days — about 54% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2328 daysOct 2311 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun22Bright
Jul28Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep18Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov13Mixed
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 Ronda, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around June 21 to October 14. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 15% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 15 to June 20, 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 7 · 100%Aug 22 · 83%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May93700
Jun752330
Jul603460
Aug4638141
Sep5038120
Oct682840
Nov95500
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 Ronda 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 4 · 11 km/hJul 28 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Ronda

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Ronda's rainy season runs October–May, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Ronda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 8 · 8.3

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb4.0fair
Mar5.2fair
Apr5.9good
May7.3good
Jun8.2ideal
Jul6.6good
Aug6.5good
Sep7.8ideal
Oct6.8good
Nov5.2fair
Dec3.9fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 4 · 9.3

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 Ronda, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Ronda sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Ronda

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 41 km away) is warmest in August at about 22°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jul 4 to Sep 29 — about 2.9 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan16Cool
Feb15Cool
Mar15Cool
Apr16Cool
May17Cool
Jun19Cool
Jul21Refreshing
Aug22Refreshing
Sep21Refreshing
Oct19Cool
Nov17Cool
Dec16Cool

UV index (midday) in Ronda 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 Ronda peaks around July 17 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 2 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 10Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar7Very high
Apr9Very high
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ronda

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
Mar6.53
Apr7.54.5
May7.54
Jun85
Jul8.56
Aug7.55
Sep6.53
Oct50
Nov10
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free day

Ronda is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan950
Feb960
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec980

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)

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. Ronda banks about 2,169 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar43
Apr97
May206
Jun330
Jul450
Aug453
Sep325
Oct204
Nov59
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.

Ronda receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.3 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 21. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.3 kWh/m² — roughly 71% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 48.0 kWhDec 202.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.6Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.9Bright
Apr6.0Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul8.0Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.3Moderate

Where is Ronda?

Ronda sits at 36.7°N, 5.2°W, 718 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Ubrique, 26 km away.

Topography around Ronda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ronda has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 383 m around an average of 661 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,476 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,886 m.

The land around Ronda is covered by grassland (40%) and trees (28%) within 3 km, grassland (39%) and trees (33%) within 16 km, and trees (29%), cropland (25%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
383 m
16 km
1,476 m
80 km
1,886 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ubrique 26 km · San Pedro Alcántara 32 km · Estepona 35 km · Marbella 36 km · Coín 38 km · Alhaurín el Grande 44 km · Cártama 48 km · Morón de la Frontera 49 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 Ronda (36.7423°, -5.1671°, elevation 718 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).