Ideal weather days in Málaga
The best time to visit Málaga for warm, dry weather is April to June and September to November, with 23 to 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Málaga's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April to June and September to November.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Málaga, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold44
- Too wet29
- Too windy29
- Too hot25
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), Málaga averaged 255 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 June to September (up to 25 a month, 132 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in November (up to 19 a month, 109 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 44 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 29 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March and October. A day can fail more than one test.
Málaga weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18 °C 64 °F | 3 | 5 | 13 | 14 of 31 |
| February | 19 °C 65 °F | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 of 28 |
| March | 20 °C 68 °F | 6 | 2 | 13 | 20 of 31 |
| April | 24 °C 74 °F | 3 | 3 | 17 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 26 °C 78 °F | 2 | 1 | 18 | 29 of 31 |
| June | 30 °C 86 °F | 2 | 0 | 20 | 25 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 89 °F | 0 | 1 | 25 | 21 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 90 °F | 0 | 1 | 25 | 22 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 84 °F | 4 | 1 | 14 | 26 of 30 |
| October | 26 °C 79 °F | 6 | 1 | 11 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 22 °C 72 °F | 2 | 5 | 12 | 24 of 30 |
| December | 18 °C 64 °F | 1 | 6 | 16 | 14 of 31 |
| Year | 32 | 29 | 195 | 255 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 250 warm, dry days
- 2024 265 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Málaga for good weather?
The best time to visit Málaga for warm, dry weather is April to June and September to November, with 23 to 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June to September (up to 25 a month, 132 a year). Counted from measured days at Malaga station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Málaga?
On average 32 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (6 rain days), the driest August (0).
How many sunny days does Málaga get a year?
About 195 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 August (25).
How warm does Málaga get?
The median daily high ranged from 18 °C (64 °F) in January to 32 °C (90 °F) in August.
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Source: Malaga weather station (08482099999), 9 km from the centre of Málaga, 16 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 86% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.