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This article gives some weather statistics for the area. It also gives the unlucky few who suffered bad weather, a chance to moan about all those blue skies pictured elsewhere on the website. Send us your bad weather pictures and a few words of caption and we will show our sympathy by displaying them here.

The villages of the Alpujarra are at about 1400 metres above sea level, Granada city is less high and tends to be hotter in summer. Hot or cold days are to be expected in spring and autumn, as are cold nights at this altitude. Winter is usually dry and clear. Most rainfall comes in spring or autumn but don't ask us when! Summer days are hot (too hot for walking) except at high altitude, well above the villages. Summer nights are perfectly comfortable unlike many lower areas of Spain.

Not many people know that.....

• average annual temperaturein the period 1900-2000 in Granada ranged between 13.9 and 16.38 ºC.
• Months in order of rainyness......Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Oct Apr May Sep June Jul Aug.

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February 2009 - Trevélez and Almejijar on the same day. Different villages a few miles apart have different luck
April 2007 A glimmer of hope above Capileira	January 2006 Trevélez moody at sunset
March 2007 A good lunch helps Glen smile through adversity.	March 2007 But he beat a hasty retreat when it turned to snow the next day
April 2007 Rainbow over the Alhambra