Climate and average weather in Sant Feliu de Guíxols

In Sant Feliu de Guíxols, the summers are humid, warm, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: early May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sant Feliu de Guíxols typically varies from 7°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 31°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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols for warm-weather activities is from early May to late October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
88 mm
Driest
Jul
18 mm
Rain / yr
571 mm
76 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
12 m
41.8°N
Clearest
Jul
34% cloud

Sant Feliu de Guíxols is innhabited place in San Feliu de Guíxols, Spain.

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

Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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 October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 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 13 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Sant Feliu de Guíxols is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 4.1 months, from November 18 to March 21, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Sant Feliu de Guíxols is January, with an average low of 7°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan137
Feb137
Mar159
Apr1711
May2114
Jun2518
Jul2720
Aug2821
Sep2518
Oct2115
Nov1610
Dec147

Average hourly temperature in Sant Feliu de Guíxols

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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° / 516.99.34.0
Feb13° / 426.410.34.2
Mar15° / 496.711.75.3
Apr17° / 11°547.913.16.0
May21° / 14°426.614.37.0
Jun25° / 18°254.3158.0
Jul27° / 20°182.714.77.9
Aug28° / 21°244.213.77.5
Sep25° / 18°647.612.37.4
Oct21° / 15°888.510.96.7
Nov16° / 10°637.69.65.6
Dec14° / 516.194.3

Chance of rain

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

Sant Feliu de Guíxols gets about 571 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 3.4 months, from around Sep 4 to Dec 14, peaking in October at about 30% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 23.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 88 mm over about 9 wet days; July is the driest, with 18 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetOct 13 · 30%Jul 23 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan217
Feb236
Mar227
Apr268
May227
Jun144
Jul93
Aug144
Sep258
Oct279
Nov258
Dec216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sant Feliu de Guíxols collects about 571 mm of rain across 76 wet days — roughly 48 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 88 mm, while July is the driest at just 18 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec514249544225182464886351
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan517
Feb426
Mar497
Apr548
May427
Jun254
Jul183
Aug244
Sep648
Oct889
Nov638
Dec516

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 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 7 and lasts for 3.0 months, ending around September 6. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 81% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 7 and lasts for 9.0 months, ending around June 6. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 46% 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 25 · 83%Oct 19 · 52%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb5743
Mar5842
Apr5644
May5743
Jun6931
Jul8119
Aug7525
Sep6139
Oct5446
Nov5644
Dec5644

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 15 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.38:195:36
Feb10.37:536:12
Mar11.77:086:47
Apr13.16:147:22
May14.35:347:55
Jun15.05:188:19
Jul14.75:318:16
Aug13.76:017:43
Sep12.36:346:50
Oct10.97:075:58
Nov9.67:455:21
Dec9.08:155:13

Sunny days

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

Sant Feliu de Guíxols averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.8 months, from around Jun 11 to Sep 3. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 11 sunny days — about 40% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2520 daysMay 410 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun15Mixed
Jul19Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep12Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around June 4 to October 19. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 81% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 20 to June 3, 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 3 · 100%Jul 28 · 12%oppressivemuggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr955000
May5638600
Jun16364080
Jul31537404
Aug41527459
Sep182731231
Oct41332250
Nov8414200
Dec991000

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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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 breezeNov 12 · 13 km/hJul 20 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Best time to visit Sant Feliu de Guíxols

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 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
Jan4.0fair
Feb4.2fair
Mar5.3fair
Apr6.0good
May7.0good
Jun8.0ideal
Jul7.9ideal
Aug7.5ideal
Sep7.4good
Oct6.7good
Nov5.6good
Dec4.3fair

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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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 26 · 8.5

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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Sant Feliu de Guíxols sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Sant Feliu de Guíxols

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 13 km away) is warmest in August at about 24°C and coldest in February near 13°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 21 to Oct 6 — about 3.6 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan13Bracing
Feb13Bracing
Mar13Bracing
Apr14Bracing
May16Cool
Jun20Cool
Jul22Refreshing
Aug24Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct19Cool
Nov17Cool
Dec15Bracing

UV index (midday) in Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols peaks around July 14 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 9Dec 19UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Sant Feliu de Guíxols

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 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
Feb1.50
Mar4.50
Apr6.51.5
May72
Jun85
Jul85
Aug73.5
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Sant Feliu de Guíxols 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. Sant Feliu de Guíxols banks about 2,300 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb5
Mar62
Apr119
May225
Jun334
Jul429
Aug440
Sep335
Oct236
Nov99
Dec16

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.

Sant Feliu de Guíxols receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.8 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 266.8 kWhDec 171.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.1Moderate
Feb2.9Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May6.2Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct3.1Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.8Dim

Where is Sant Feliu de Guíxols?

Sant Feliu de Guíxols sits at 41.8°N, 3.0°E, 12 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Palamós, 11 km away.

Topography around Sant Feliu de Guíxols

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sant Feliu de Guíxols has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 314 m around an average of 33 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 524 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,677 m.

The land around Sant Feliu de Guíxols is covered by water (44%) and trees (33%) within 3 km, water (51%) and trees (37%) within 16 km, and trees (41%) and water (41%) within 80 km.

3 km
314 m
16 km
524 m
80 km
1,677 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Palamós 11 km · Lloret de Mar 18 km · Palafrugell 18 km · Blanes 24 km · Tordera 28 km · Girona 28 km · Malgrat de Mar 29 km · Salt 29 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 Sant Feliu de Guíxols (41.7833°, 3.0333°, elevation 12 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).