Climate and average weather in Teruel

In Teruel, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Teruel typically varies from -0°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 33°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Teruel for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
29°
Coldest
Jan
-0°
Wettest
May
55 mm
Driest
Jul
20 mm
Rain / yr
415 mm
79 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
908 m
40.3°N
Clearest
Jul
27% cloud

Teruel is city in Aragon, Spain, capital of the municipality of Teruel, in the comarca of Comunidad de Teruel and the province of Teruel.

Air quality
Good
PM2.5 8.6 µg/m³ · 2019
Founded
1171

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

Teruel 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 Teruel, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 2.9 months, from June 14 to September 10, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Teruel is July, with an average high of 29°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 12 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in Teruel is January, with an average low of -0°C and high of 9°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan90
Feb100
Mar142
Apr164
May208
Jun2512
Jul2915
Aug2814
Sep2311
Oct187
Nov123
Dec90

How hot and cold Teruel 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -4°C (around January 23), with roughly 141 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)
Jan99-40
Feb1010-40
Mar1414-12
Apr161614
May202068
Jun25251212
Jul29291415
Aug28281414
Sep23231111
Oct181857
Nov121203
Dec99-30

Average hourly temperature in Teruel

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -0°C.

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

Teruel 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
Jan / -0°255.229.51.9
Feb10° / 245.42.410.42.7
Mar14° / 366.41.511.74.3
Apr16° / 5090.7135.0
May20° / 559.80.214.26.4
Jun25° / 12°397.4014.87.4
Jul29° / 15°204.6014.66.8
Aug28° / 14°316.8013.66.7
Sep23° / 11°367.1012.37.4
Oct18° / 406.50.110.96.3
Nov12° / 345.90.79.83.6
Dec / 265.11.29.22.1

Chance of rain

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

Teruel gets about 415 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 3.1 months, from around Mar 21 to Jun 21, peaking in May at about 34% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 6.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 55 mm over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 20 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetMay 6 · 34%Jan 6 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan175
Feb195
Mar216
Apr309
May3110
Jun247
Jul165
Aug227
Sep237
Oct227
Nov206
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Teruel collects about 415 mm of rain across 79 wet days — roughly 35 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 55 mm, while July is the driest at just 20 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec252436505539203136403426
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2552
Feb2452
Mar3662
Apr5091
May55100
Jun3970
Jul2050
Aug3170
Sep3670
Oct4070
Nov3461
Dec2651

Snow in Teruel

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Teruel averages about 9 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 5 to May 7 — about 6 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 8 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 41 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 23
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan211
Feb28
Mar25
Apr15
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov15
Dec16

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Teruel, 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 6 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around September 19. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 20 and lasts for 8.5 months, ending around June 5. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 50% 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 · 92%May 2 · 46%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5446
Feb5545
Mar5545
Apr5050
May5446
Jun7129
Jul8911
Aug8119
Sep6535
Oct5644
Nov5248
Dec5248

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 15, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.58:315:56
Feb10.48:076:31
Mar11.77:247:04
Apr13.06:337:37
May14.25:548:08
Jun14.85:398:30
Jul14.65:528:28
Aug13.66:207:57
Sep12.36:517:07
Oct10.97:226:17
Nov9.87:585:41
Dec9.28:265:35

Sunny days

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

Teruel averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Jun 11 to Sep 16. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 10 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2122 daysMay 28 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun15Mixed
Jul22Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep13Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov10Mixed
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 Teruel, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% 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
May10000
Jun9460
Jul78202
Aug66304
Sep85141
Oct9910
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Teruel is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Oct 30 to May 10. The windiest month is February, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 11 to Oct 29, with August the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 1 · 12 km/hAug 26 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Teruel

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Teruel 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 Teruel 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 24 · 7.6

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
Jan1.9poor
Feb2.7poor
Mar4.2fair
Apr5.0fair
May6.4good
Jun7.4good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.7good
Sep7.4good
Oct6.3good
Nov3.6fair
Dec2.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 20 · 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 Teruel, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 9°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Teruel sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Teruel 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 Teruel peaks around July 14 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 10Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May7High
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Teruel

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
Feb10
Mar5.50
Apr73
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.52.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Teruel typically lasts about 308 days, from around February 19 to December 23 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 15 to November 4.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1950%Apr 1590%Nov 490%Dec 2350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4431
Feb5028
Mar7331
Apr9117
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov7728
Dec5431

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. Teruel banks about 1,378 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr9
May115
Jun249
Jul360
Aug351
Sep215
Oct79
Nov0
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.

Teruel receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 20. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 57.5 kWhDec 162.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May6.6Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.0Moderate

Where is Teruel?

Teruel sits at 40.3°N, 1.1°W, 908 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Onda, 83 km away.

Topography around Teruel

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Teruel has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 279 m around an average of 941 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 797 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,859 m.

The land around Teruel is covered by grassland (38%) and cropland (24%) within 3 km, grassland (41%) and cropland (29%) within 16 km, and trees (43%) and grassland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
279 m
16 km
797 m
80 km
1,859 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Onda 83 km · Llíria 91 km · Cuenca 93 km · Requena 95 km · La Pobla de Vallbona 96 km · Vila-real 97 km · Castelló de la Plana 98 km · Almassora 99 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 Teruel (40.3456°, -1.1065°, elevation 908 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).