Spain · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Lorca.

October leads for comfortable weather in Lorca: typically 25.9°C by day, 13.6°C at night, with 28 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high25.9°C

Typical low13.6°C

Rain in October28 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

90climate match

Beach

September

September · August · June

85climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · April

95climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 55 against October’s 90 — days average 34.5°C, 11° above 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

5616.8° / 4.2°

Feb

6318.2° / 5.4°

Mar

7621° / 7.5°

Apr

8823.5° / 9.8°

May

8627.1° / 13.3°

Jun

7131.5° / 17.3°

Jul

5634.4° / 20.4°

Aug

5534.5° / 21°

Sep

7330.4° / 17.7°

Oct

9025.9° / 13.6°

Nov

7520.3° / 8.4°

Dec

5917.1° / 5.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Lorca — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 34 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.8°C	4.2°C	31 mm	3.3	15.0°C	9 h 49	56	Strong coverage
February	18.2°C	5.4°C	23 mm	3.3	14.5°C	10 h 44	63	Strong coverage
March	21°C	7.5°C	33 mm	3.7	14.9°C	11 h 50	76	Strong coverage
April	23.5°C	9.8°C	28 mm	3.4	16.2°C	13 h 07	88	Strong coverage
May	27.1°C	13.3°C	23 mm	3.2	18.3°C	14 h 11	86	Strong coverage
June	31.5°C	17.3°C	17 mm	1.7	21.4°C	14 h 45	71	Strong coverage
July	34.4°C	20.4°C	2 mm	0.6	24.2°C	14 h 32	56	Strong coverage
August	34.5°C	21°C	11 mm	1.3	25.8°C	13 h 37	55	Strong coverage
September	30.4°C	17.7°C	41 mm	3.1	24.4°C	12 h 23	73	Strong coverage
October	25.9°C	13.6°C	28 mm	3.9	21.7°C	11 h 09	90	Strong coverage
November	20.3°C	8.4°C	32 mm	3.9	18.6°C	10 h 05	75	Strong coverage
December	17.1°C	5.2°C	33 mm	3.4	16.4°C	9 h 34	59	Strong coverage

What has changed

Lorca runs +1.7°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

+1.1

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+1.7

May

+2.2

Jun

+2.9

Jul

+2.1

Aug

+2.2

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+2.0

Nov

+1.4

Dec

+1.3

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 27.2°C.

Records at MURCIA/ALCANTARILLA, 1940–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.2°C29 Jan 2021	-5.0°C15 Jan 1991	70 mm23 Jan 1991	161 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1943	85
February	29.0°C27 Feb 1990	-5.0°C12 Feb 1956	63 mm21 Feb 1985	107 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2019	86
March	33.3°C10 Mar 2017	-4.2°C11 Mar 1955	68 mm23 Mar 2020	162 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1983	85
April	36.6°C21 Apr 1945	-0.2°C6 Apr 1947	78 mm19 Apr 2019	192 mm1946 · driest 0 mm in 1955	85
May	42.5°C14 May 2015	3.6°C4 May 1947	65 mm23 May 2021	137 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1970	85
June	44.0°C29 Jun 2012	9.0°C9 Jun 1956	47 mm4 Jun 1960	117 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1999	85
July	46.1°C4 Jul 1994	12.2°C13 Jul 1955	45 mm16 Jul 1980	45 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 2004	84
August	47.0°C15 Aug 2021	8.6°C18 Aug 1945	67 mm19 Aug 1974	93 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 1954	84
September	43.6°C5 Sep 2016	7.4°C27 Sep 1945	180 mm12 Sep 2019	240 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1970	84
October	36.0°C4 Oct 1946	1.0°C23 Oct 1970	136 mm10 Oct 1943	175 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1968	85
November	31.0°C9 Nov 1985	-2.6°C25 Nov 1976	100 mm4 Nov 1987	132 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1981	85
December	27.0°C12 Dec 1978	-6.0°C21 Dec 1941	112 mm18 Dec 2016	257 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1967	86

Typical days per month at MURCIA/ALCANTARILLA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	4	<1
February	1	0	2	<1
March	5	<1	<1	1
April	10	1	0	<1
May	23	7	0	<1
June	29	21	0	<1
July	31	30	0	0
August	31	30	0	<1
September	29	17	0	1
October	19	4	0	<1
November	3	0	<1	1
December	<1	0	3	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was October (scoring 91); on 2011–2025 it is April (92). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MURCIA/ALCANTARILLA’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	17%	11%	2%	9%	14.3–18.4°C
February	33%	11%	2%	9%	15.6–20.4°C
March	54%	13%	4%	7%	18.2–22.7°C
April	74%	14%	4%	14%	20.8–24.9°C
May	87%	12%	3%	7%	24.1–28.9°C
June	93%	7%	2%	2%	28.4–32.8°C
July	98%	2%	<1%	0%	32.4–35.8°C
August	96%	4%	1%	1%	32.3–35.7°C
September	91%	10%	3%	6%	28.8–32.2°C
October	84%	13%	4%	9%	23.2–27.4°C
November	51%	13%	3%	9%	18.3–22.1°C
December	17%	12%	3%	10%	14.7–18.5°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.

1943Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 82-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1956.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2514891
NOAA station: SPE00120332 · MURCIA/ALCANTARILLA
Station distance: 52.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.67°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 34 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 MURCIA/ALCANTARILLA is what differs

Cartagena→Alcantarilla→Torre-Pacheco→Mazarrón→Águilas→Atamaría→

Or put two places side by side: Lorca vs Cartagena

Best time to visitLorca.

October

September

November

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Lorca runs +1.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Lorca.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Lorca runs +1.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.