The Climate of Cabrera

This area of Spain doesn't really have weather. It just has a climate, and almost every day, the weather is just what the climate says it is. The following chart covers the climate statistics of the area for the last twenty years, as measured at Almeria airport. They appear to be valid for Cabrera too, though perhaps our temperatures are a couple of degrees higher in summer and the winter sunshine hours for Cabrera are a little less as local clouds sometimes form over the Sierra Cabrera.

	Average max daytime temp ° C		Average min night-time temp ° C
	Average hours sunshine per day		Average rainy days per month
		In this context, a "rainy day" is a day with at least 1mm of rain. Not much! Especially if it falls at night.

There's about twice as many hours of sunshine here in summer.

And more than three times as much in winter. We're also a useful bit ahead of the other Spanish coastal areas.

Our summer daytime temperatures are nearly 10º better than England, and even more important, our nighttime temperatures are nearly 10º better as well.

Even better, our winter days are also 10º warmer, and the nights are much less cold too.

But it's when we come to rainy days that Cabrera really scores. Remember our definition of a rainy day as 1mm or more of rain? Even in summer, Manchester has 10 rainy days per month (living up to its reputation!), and Cabrera has none.

In winter the difference is just as impressive, especially remembering that a little rain when the temperature is in the high teens is not as grim as when its only a few degrees above freezing.

So although our climate is not perfect, we can't really think of anywhere that is better.