Ideal weather days in Madrid
The best time to visit Madrid for warm, dry weather is April, May and September, with 21 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Madrid's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April, May and September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Madrid, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold141
- Too hot57
- Too wet53
- Too windy19
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Madrid averaged 141 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Spain, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July and August (up to 21 a month, 72 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April and November (up to 16 a month, 81 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 141 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 57 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Madrid weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12 °C 53 °F | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 of 31 |
| February | 14 °C 57 °F | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 59 °F | 10 | 5 | 3 | 11 of 31 |
| April | 22 °C 72 °F | 5 | 1 | 8 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 7 | 0 | 8 | 22 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 87 °F | 5 | 0 | 9 | 15 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 94 °F | 1 | 0 | 20 | 10 of 31 |
| August | 36 °C 97 °F | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 of 31 |
| September | 27 °C 81 °F | 6 | 1 | 7 | 25 of 30 |
| October | 22 °C 72 °F | 10 | 3 | 3 | 16 of 31 |
| November | 16 °C 61 °F | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 of 30 |
| December | 13 °C 55 °F | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 61 | 19 | 93 | 141 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 145 warm, dry days
- 2024 157 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Madrid for good weather?
The best time to visit Madrid for warm, dry weather is April, May and September, with 21 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July and August (up to 21 a month, 72 a year). Counted from measured days at Cuatro Vientos station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Madrid?
On average 61 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (10 rain days), the driest July (1).
How many sunny days does Madrid get a year?
About 93 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (20).
How warm does Madrid get?
The median daily high ranged from 12 °C (53 °F) in January to 36 °C (97 °F) in August.
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Source: Cuatro Vientos weather station (08223099999), 9 km from the centre of Madrid, 691 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.