Climate and average weather in Valls

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

Best: mid March to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Valls typically varies from 4°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -1°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 times of year to visit Valls for warm-weather activities are from mid March to mid July and late August to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
72 mm
Driest
Jul
22 mm
Rain / yr
524 mm
78 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
223 m
41.3°N
Clearest
Jul
27% cloud

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

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

Valls 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 March to mid July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from June 8 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Valls is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 17 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Valls is January, with an average low of 4°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan134
Feb145
Mar177
Apr199
May2313
Jun2717
Jul3020
Aug3020
Sep2616
Oct2213
Nov168
Dec135

Average hourly temperature in Valls

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

Valls 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° / 355.99.43.9
Feb14° / 274.910.34.8
Mar17° / 406.611.76.2
Apr19° / 528.113.16.6
May23° / 13°507.414.37.3
Jun27° / 17°325.614.97.3
Jul30° / 20°224.314.76.3
Aug30° / 20°456.713.75.9
Sep26° / 16°729.312.37.1
Oct22° / 13°687.810.97.0
Nov16° / 4769.75.8
Dec13° / 355.29.14.1

Chance of rain

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

Valls gets about 524 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 2.6 months, from around Aug 18 to Nov 5, peaking in September at about 31% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 22.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 72 mm over about 9 wet days; July is the driest, with 22 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetSep 16 · 31%Jul 22 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb185
Mar217
Apr278
May257
Jun196
Jul144
Aug217
Sep309
Oct268
Nov206
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Valls collects about 524 mm of rain across 78 wet days — roughly 44 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 72 mm, while July is the driest at just 22 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec352740525032224572684735
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan356
Feb275
Mar407
Apr528
May507
Jun326
Jul224
Aug457
Sep729
Oct688
Nov476
Dec355

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Valls, 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 4 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around September 10. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around February 15 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around June 3. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 41% 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 · 88%May 3 · 56%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb6535
Mar6238
Apr6040
May6139
Jun7426
Jul8614
Aug7822
Sep6634
Oct5941
Nov6139
Dec6139

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 15 hours of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.48:245:44
Feb10.37:596:20
Mar11.77:156:54
Apr13.16:227:28
May14.35:428:01
Jun14.95:268:24
Jul14.75:398:22
Aug13.76:097:49
Sep12.36:416:57
Oct10.97:146:06
Nov9.77:515:30
Dec9.18:205:22

Sunny days

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

Valls averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.9 months, from around Jun 8 to Sep 4. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 13 sunny days — about 42% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2123 daysApr 2811 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb14Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug19Bright
Sep14Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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 Valls, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around June 14 to October 12. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 64% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 13 to June 13, 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 11 · 100%Jul 31 · 22%muggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr991000
May7919200
Jun36402120
Jul102541221
Aug81734392
Sep262530180
Oct54291610
Nov927100
Dec1000000

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 Valls is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 4 to May 10. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 11 to Nov 3, with August the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 30 · 11 km/hAug 23 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Valls

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Valls 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 Valls for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid March to late July and again from late August to mid 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
Jan3.9fair
Feb4.8fair
Mar6.1good
Apr6.6good
May7.3good
Jun7.3good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.0good
Sep7.0good
Oct7.0good
Nov5.7good
Dec4.1fair

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 Valls for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 19 · 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 Valls, 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 13°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Valls sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Valls

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 21 km away) is warmest in August at about 26°C and coldest in February near 13°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 7 to Oct 27 — about 4.7 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan14Bracing
Feb13Bracing
Mar13Bracing
Apr15Bracing
May17Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul24Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep24Warm
Oct21Refreshing
Nov18Cool
Dec15Cool

UV index (midday) in Valls 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 Valls peaks around July 15 at about 9 (very high) — 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 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 9Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May6High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Valls

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 5.5 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
Feb10
Mar50
Apr6.52.5
May72.5
Jun8.55
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep61.5
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Valls is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about January 30 to December 17 (322 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeJan 3090%Dec 1790%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8730
Feb920
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov980
Dec9116

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. Valls banks about 2,311 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
Feb1
Mar60
Apr126
May242
Jun359
Jul455
Aug455
Sep335
Oct219
Nov60
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.

Valls receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.9 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 17. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.9 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 257.3 kWhDec 191.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.2Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May6.7Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.1Intense
Aug6.1Intense
Sep4.7Bright
Oct3.4Moderate
Nov2.4Moderate
Dec1.9Dim

Where is Valls?

Valls sits at 41.3°N, 1.2°E, 223 m above sea level, in Spain. The nearest listed city is Tarragona, 19 km away.

Topography around Valls

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Valls has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 168 m around an average of 223 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,102 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,321 m.

The land around Valls is covered by grassland (33%) and trees (26%) within 3 km, trees (44%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (35%), water (24%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
168 m
16 km
1,102 m
80 km
1,321 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Tarragona 19 km · Reus 19 km · Torredembarra 20 km · Vila-seca 21 km · La Pineda 24 km · El Vendrell 25 km · Salou 25 km · Calafell 28 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 Valls (41.2861°, 1.2499°, elevation 223 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).