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Best time to visit
El Médano.

March leads for comfortable weather in El Médano: typically 23°C by day, 15.3°C at night, with 11 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high23°C

Typical low15.3°C

Rain in March11 mm

Comfort

March

March · April · May

96climate match

Beach

August

August · September · July

98climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · March

85climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 74 against March’s 96 — days average 28.6°C, 5° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights stay at 21.2°C.

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

9322° / 15°

Feb

9422.2° / 14.9°

Mar

9623° / 15.3°

Apr

9623.3° / 16°

May

9524.3° / 17.2°

Jun

8725.8° / 18.9°

Jul

7827.8° / 20.2°

Aug

7428.6° / 21.2°

Sep

7627.9° / 21.1°

Oct

8127° / 20°

Nov

9125.1° / 18.2°

Dec

9423.2° / 16.4°

Monthly climate evidence for El Médano — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 12 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	22°C	15°C	17 mm	1.6	19.8°C	10 h 32	93	Strong coverage
February	22.2°C	14.9°C	19 mm	1.9	19.2°C	11 h 10	94	Strong coverage
March	23°C	15.3°C	11 mm	1.4	19.1°C	11 h 55	96	Strong coverage
April	23.3°C	16°C	8 mm	1	19.4°C	12 h 48	96	Strong coverage
May	24.3°C	17.2°C	1 mm	0.2	20.2°C	13 h 31	95	Strong coverage
June	25.8°C	18.9°C	0 mm	0.1	21.4°C	13 h 55	87	Strong coverage
July	27.8°C	20.2°C	0 mm	0	22.2°C	13 h 45	78	Strong coverage
August	28.6°C	21.2°C	2 mm	0.3	23.1°C	13 h 08	74	Strong coverage
September	27.9°C	21.1°C	3 mm	0.6	23.7°C	12 h 17	76	Strong coverage
October	27°C	20°C	14 mm	2.1	23.6°C	11 h 27	81	Strong coverage
November	25.1°C	18.2°C	13 mm	1.5	22.3°C	10 h 43	91	Strong coverage
December	23.2°C	16.4°C	33 mm	3.3	21.0°C	10 h 22	94	Strong coverage

Records at TENERIFE/SUR, 1980–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	29.3°C15 Jan 2016	9.0°C16 Jan 1988	46 mm27 Jan 2007	135 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2016	46
February	31.9°C24 Feb 2020	9.8°C13 Feb 2012	61 mm2 Feb 1996	115 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1987	46
March	34.2°C9 Mar 2017	9.6°C15 Mar 2011	53 mm17 Mar 1993	101 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1992	46
April	33.4°C22 Apr 2013	12.2°C5 Apr 2007	22 mm9 Apr 2025	36 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 2013	46
May	34.9°C12 May 2012	13.0°C1 May 1981	7 mm1 May 2004	11 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 2005	46
June	35.5°C28 Jun 2013	14.6°C2 Jun 2014	4 mm5 Jun 2020	6 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2003	46
July	38.6°C17 Jul 2025	16.8°C13 Jul 1993	2 mm25 Jul 1983	2 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2005	46
August	40.2°C23 Aug 1985	17.1°C25 Aug 2007	19 mm18 Aug 2005	31 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1993	46
September	38.0°C2 Sep 1980	16.6°C30 Sep 2007	56 mm24 Sep 2022	109 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2000	46
October	36.3°C6 Oct 2002	14.8°C27 Oct 1999	47 mm25 Oct 1989	65 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2022	46
November	35.2°C9 Nov 1998	12.0°C27 Nov 2008	136 mm19 Nov 1983	213 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1986	46
December	30.0°C2 Dec 1985	10.4°C2 Dec 1988	109 mm11 Dec 2013	177 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 2019	46

Typical days per month at TENERIFE/SUR, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	2	0	<1
February	3	<1	<1
March	5	<1	<1
April	5	<1	<1
May	9	<1	0
June	20	<1	0
July	29	4	0
August	30	6	<1
September	29	3	<1
October	27	3	<1
November	14	<1	<1
December	5	0	1

How often, not how much — every day in TENERIFE/SUR’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	90%	5%	2%	2%	20.9–22.7°C
February	88%	7%	2%	4%	20.8–24.2°C
March	92%	6%	1%	4%	21.7–24.5°C
April	95%	4%	<1%	1%	22.0–24.4°C
May	99%	1%	0%	<1%	22.9–25.7°C
June	100%	<1%	0%	0%	24.8–27.2°C
July	100%	<1%	0%	0%	26.4–29.6°C
August	99%	<1%	<1%	<1%	27.2–30.5°C
September	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	26.8–29.2°C
October	95%	5%	<1%	4%	25.7–28.4°C
November	94%	6%	2%	4%	23.9–26.5°C
December	89%	10%	3%	8%	22.0–24.3°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.

1981Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 45-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1982.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2518346
NOAA station: SPE00120476 · TENERIFE/SUR
Station distance: 2.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 28.05°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 12 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 TENERIFE/SUR is what differs

Arona→Adeje→Granadilla de Abona→Icod de los Vinos→Guía de Isora→San Isidro→

Or put two places side by side: El Médano vs Arona

Best time to visitEl Médano.