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bad weather can strike at any time!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.

 

10 day forecast - Granada 7 day forecast - village specific. Sierra nevada- snow prediction

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.

Average No of days with measurable rain
Additional days with imeasurable rain
Average of Daily Max/min Temperature
Jan
6
2
12
Feb
4
2
13
Mar
4
2
14
Apr
5
2
16
May
3
2
19
June
2
2
22
A bit hot for
July
0
1
25
Hot but ok at higher altiude
Aug
0
1
26
Sept
2
4
23
tender souls
Oct
4
2
19
Nov
6
1
15
Dec
6
1
13
TOT
42
22
 

 

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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 2007Photo - Bill Whitaker.
A good lunch helps Glen smile through adversity.

March 2007Photo - Bill Whitaker. no blow up
But he beat a hasty retreat when it turned to snow the next day

April 2007 Photo - Bill Whitaker
Rainbow over the Alhambra

 

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