Climate and average weather in Santafé

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

Best: late April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Santafé typically varies from 2°C to 32°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 36°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 Santafé for warm-weather activities are from late April to late June and late August to early November.

Hottest
Jul
32°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
55 mm
Driest
Jul
4 mm
Rain / yr
433 mm
68 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
582 m
37.2°N
Clearest
Jul
11% cloud

Santafé is municipal capital of Santa Fe, Granada, Spain.

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

Santafé 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 late April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Santafé, 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 11, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Santafé is July, with an average high of 32°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 13 to March 11, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Santafé is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 12°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)
Jan122
Feb133
Mar165
Apr187
May2311
Jun2815
Jul3218
Aug3218
Sep2714
Oct2110
Nov155
Dec133

How hot and cold Santafé 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, Santafé feels like about 33°C (around July 27). About 28 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -0°C (around January 18), with roughly 20 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan121202
Feb131313
Mar161635
Apr181867
May22231011
Jun28281515
Jul32321818
Aug32321818
Sep27271414
Oct21211010
Nov151545
Dec131313

Average hourly temperature in Santafé

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Santafé 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
Jan12° / 477.219.73.4
Feb13° / 426.80.810.64.1
Mar16° / 507.80.411.75.4
Apr18° / 488.10.112.96.3
May23° / 11°406.50147.6
Jun28° / 15°173014.57.5
Jul32° / 18°41.3014.35.5
Aug32° / 18°82.1013.45.5
Sep27° / 14°254.1012.37.7
Oct21° / 10°446.10117.3
Nov15° / 557.20.1105.2
Dec13° / 557.40.49.53.8

Chance of rain

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

Santafé gets about 433 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 7.3 months, from around Oct 9 to May 19, peaking in April at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 9.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 55 mm over about 7 wet days; July is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetApr 13 · 27%Jul 9 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb257
Mar258
Apr278
May217
Jun103
Jul41
Aug72
Sep134
Oct216
Nov237
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Santafé collects about 433 mm of rain across 68 wet days — roughly 36 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 55 mm, while July is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4742504840174825445555
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4771
Feb4271
Mar5080
Apr4880
May4070
Jun1730
Jul410
Aug820
Sep2540
Oct4460
Nov5570
Dec5570

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Santafé, 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 17 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 3. 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 4 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around May 16. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 45% 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 · 97%Dec 16 · 54%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb6040
Mar5941
Apr5941
May6931
Jun8713
Jul964
Aug937
Sep7822
Oct6337
Nov5842
Dec5545

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 18, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, 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)
Jan9.78:336:15
Feb10.68:126:47
Mar11.77:337:16
Apr12.96:467:44
May14.06:128:11
Jun14.55:598:31
Jul14.36:118:30
Aug13.46:368:02
Sep12.37:027:16
Oct11.07:296:31
Nov10.08:015:59
Dec9.58:275:55

Sunny days

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

Santafé averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around May 24 to Sep 19. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

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

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2229 daysMar 2812 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May16Bright
Jun22Bright
Jul29Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep19Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov13Mixed
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 Santafé, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 5% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9820
Jun84151
Jul72253
Aug68285
Sep80191
Oct9550
Nov10000
Dec10000

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 Santafé is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 7 · 7 km/hDec 3 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Santafé

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 30 · 8.1

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
Jan3.4poor
Feb4.1fair
Mar5.4fair
Apr6.4good
May7.6ideal
Jun7.5ideal
Jul5.6good
Aug5.6good
Sep7.6ideal
Oct7.3good
Nov5.2fair
Dec3.8fair

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 Santafé 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 27 · 8.9

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 Santafé, 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 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Santafé sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Santafé

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 63 km away) is warmest in August at about 24°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 16 to Oct 13 — about 3.9 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan15Cool
Feb15Cool
Mar15Cool
Apr16Cool
May18Cool
Jun20Refreshing
Jul22Refreshing
Aug24Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct20Cool
Nov17Cool
Dec16Cool

UV index (midday) in Santafé 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 Santafé peaks around July 17 at about 11 (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 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 11Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar7Very high
Apr9Very high
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Santafé

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
Feb2.50
Mar6.53
Apr7.55
May7.54.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep6.53.5
Oct50
Nov20
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Santafé is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 5 to November 23 (264 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 590%Nov 2390%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7231
Feb8028
Mar956
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov949
Dec8131

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. Santafé banks about 2,070 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar17
Apr78
May202
Jun340
Jul460
Aug455
Sep314
Oct177
Nov25
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.

Santafé 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 6.1 months, from around Mar 21 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 70% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 38.0 kWhDec 192.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.6Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.9Bright
Apr6.0Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul8.0Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.3Moderate

Where is Santafé?

Santafé sits at 37.2°N, 3.7°W, 582 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Atarfe, 5.0 km away.

Topography around Santafé

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Santafé has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 82 m around an average of 587 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 891 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,447 m.

The land around Santafé is covered by trees (40%) and cropland (38%) within 3 km, trees (38%), cropland (24%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (42%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
82 m
16 km
891 m
80 km
3,447 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Atarfe 5.0 km · Las Gabias 7.0 km · Albolote 7.0 km · Maracena 8.0 km · Armilla 10 km · Granada 10 km · Zubia 14 km · Alcalá la Real 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 Santafé (37.1886°, -3.7189°, elevation 582 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).