Spain · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Zahara de los Atunes.

September leads for comfortable weather in Zahara de los Atunes: typically 23.9°C by day, 18.9°C at night, with 21 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low18.9°C

Rain in September21 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · July

92climate match

Beach

August

August · July · September

87climate match

Outdoors

May

May · April · June

89climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 53 against September’s 92 — days reach only 15.4°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5315.4° / 10.2°

Feb

5415.4° / 10.4°

Mar

6116.8° / 11.9°

Apr

6917.9° / 12.9°

May

8720.3° / 15°

Jun

9122.8° / 17.7°

Jul

8924.9° / 19.5°

Aug

8625.5° / 20.3°

Sep

9223.9° / 18.9°

Oct

8021.5° / 16.7°

Nov

6518.3° / 13.2°

Dec

5516.4° / 11.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Zahara de los Atunes — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 3 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	15.4°C	10.2°C	78 mm	7.5	16.4°C	9 h 57	53	Strong coverage
February	15.4°C	10.4°C	77 mm	7.5	15.8°C	10 h 49	54	Strong coverage
March	16.8°C	11.9°C	75 mm	6.8	15.7°C	11 h 51	61	Strong coverage
April	17.9°C	12.9°C	64 mm	6.6	16.4°C	13 h 03	69	Strong coverage
May	20.3°C	15°C	26 mm	4.2	17.8°C	14 h 04	87	Strong coverage
June	22.8°C	17.7°C	6 mm	1	19.7°C	14 h 36	91	Strong coverage
July	24.9°C	19.5°C	2 mm	0.2	21.6°C	14 h 23	89	Strong coverage
August	25.5°C	20.3°C	1 mm	0.2	22.4°C	13 h 32	86	Strong coverage
September	23.9°C	18.9°C	21 mm	2.3	21.6°C	12 h 22	92	Strong coverage
October	21.5°C	16.7°C	79 mm	6.2	20.3°C	11 h 12	80	Strong coverage
November	18.3°C	13.2°C	97 mm	7.6	18.6°C	10 h 12	65	Strong coverage
December	16.4°C	11.5°C	95 mm	8.4	17.3°C	9 h 43	55	Strong coverage

What has changed

Zahara de los Atunes runs +1.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.2

Feb

+0.2

Mar

+0.5

Apr

+1.0

May

+1.6

Jun

+1.8

Jul

+1.6

Aug

+2.0

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+0.6

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.2°C.

Records at TARIFA, 1945–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.4°C20 Jan 1969	-3.3°C28 Jan 2005	139 mm13 Jan 1970	421 mm1970 · driest 0 mm in 2012	77
February	24.7°C10 Feb 1950	-2.1°C2 Feb 1954	115 mm28 Feb 2005	315 mm1969 · driest 0 mm in 1990	79
March	24.8°C15 Mar 2006	1.2°C1 Mar 1993	100 mm6 Mar 2021	314 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1994	80
April	29.2°C25 Apr 2023	4.0°C3 Apr 1987	72 mm28 Apr 1993	274 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 1977	80
May	31.9°C14 May 2012	7.4°C1 May 2013	72 mm3 May 1963	135 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 1986	80
June	34.9°C30 Jun 2004	10.6°C10 Jun 1966	59 mm18 Jun 1958	73 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 2011	81
July	35.3°C4 Jul 1955	11.9°C9 Jul 2004	27 mm8 Jul 1995	27 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1959	80
August	37.0°C17 Aug 1949	14.2°C9 Aug 2008	72 mm28 Aug 1987	79 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1992	78
September	35.2°C17 Sep 1964	9.0°C7 Sep 1965	48 mm30 Sep 2003	137 mm1949 · driest 0 mm in 1955	78
October	30.9°C4 Oct 2015	8.4°C29 Oct 1966	82 mm6 Oct 1994	232 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 1949	78
November	27.1°C1 Nov 2006	2.4°C15 Nov 2001	102 mm19 Nov 1969	414 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 1981	77
December	23.6°C5 Dec 1967	0.4°C12 Dec 1967	113 mm26 Dec 1962	350 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 2015	76

Typical days per month at TARIFA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	2
February	0	0	3
March	0	0	2
April	0	0	2
May	<1	0	<1
June	5	<1	<1
July	14	<1	0
August	15	<1	0
September	9	<1	<1
October	2	<1	2
November	<1	0	3
December	0	0	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 92); on 2011–2025 it is June (94). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in TARIFA’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	2%	28%	10%	35%	14.4–17.4°C
February	3%	31%	12%	37%	14.4–17.7°C
March	6%	25%	10%	30%	15.6–18.4°C
April	17%	21%	7%	24%	16.6–20.2°C
May	52%	13%	3%	10%	18.4–22.5°C
June	85%	5%	1%	2%	20.7–25.3°C
July	99%	<1%	0%	0%	22.6–27.9°C
August	99%	1%	<1%	<1%	23.2–27.7°C
September	91%	7%	2%	5%	21.9–26.5°C
October	65%	19%	7%	21%	19.6–24.2°C
November	20%	27%	11%	35%	17.1–20.2°C
December	5%	31%	12%	35%	15.2–17.9°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1946Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 70-year average. Warmest: 1947. Coolest: 1993.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2509369
NOAA station: SPE00119963 · TARIFA
Station distance: 26.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.14°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 3 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from TARIFA is what differs

Barbate→Tarifa→Benalup-Casas Viejas→Los Caños de Meca→Facinas→Benalup de Sidonia→

Or put two places side by side: Zahara de los Atunes vs Barbate

Best time to visitZahara de los Atunes.

September

August

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Zahara de los Atunes runs +1.1°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Zahara de los Atunes.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Zahara de los Atunes runs +1.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.