Spain Weather - Mediterranean
The East and Southern Coastals Regions including The Balearics
Including (with towns and cities in parentheses):
southeastern ANDALUCIA: Costa del Sol (Almería, Málaga,
Nerja); coastal CATALONIA: Costa Brava (Barcelona, Tarragona, Sitges);
coastal MURCIA; coastal VALENCIA: Costa Blanca (Valencia); the Balearic
Islands;
This area includes the internationally famous tourist resorts –
the Costa Brava in the north and the Costa del Sol in the south. Sunshine
amounts are high: from six hours a day in winter to twelve in midsummer.
Winters are mild and much warmer than inland. While summers are hot and
at times humid, the afternoon heat is usually tempered by sea breezes.
In the south conditions can occasionally become rather unpleasant when
a hot, dry wind (the leveche) blows from North Africa. In much of the
region, rain is very rare during the months June to August but north of
Valencia the coast is liable to occasional heavy downpours of thundery
rain in summer. Around Barcelona and farther north autumn tends to be
wetter than winter; here the total rainfall is greater than in the south,
some parts of which are dry even in winter. In the drier regions there
are considerable differences in the amount of rainfall from year to year.
The Balearic Islands, which include Majorca, Menorca, and Ibiza, are situated
170–250 km/100–150 mi to the east of Spain and are a popular
winter and summer resort for visitors from northern Europe. They have
a climate similar to that of southeastern Spain (see the table for Palma,
Majorca).
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