Spain travel tips

Best time to visit Spain

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Spain agrees on Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct.

PlaceJFMAMJJASONDIn words
BarcelonaMay to June, September to OctoberMay to June, September to October
MadridApril to June, September to OctoberApril to June, September to October
SevilleMarch to May, October to NovemberMarch to May, October to November
GranadaMarch to May, and September to November — high summer reaches 36°CMarch to May, and September to November — high summer reaches 36°C
ValenciaApril to June, September to OctoberApril to June, September to October
TenerifeAll year — mildest March to May and September to NovemberAll year — mildest March to May and September to November
MallorcaApril to June, and September to October (July and August are full)April to June, and September to October (July and August are full)
San SebastiánJune to September (it rains here in every other month, and often in these)June to September (it rains here in every other month, and often in these)
MálagaApril to June, and September to October — high summer is hot and packedApril to June, and September to October — high summer is hot and packed
IbizaMay to June, and September to October — the clubs run late June to early OctoberMay to June, and September to October — the clubs run late June to early October
CórdobaMarch to May, and October — the high summer here is among the hottest in Europe and the city stops movingMarch to May, and October — the high summer here is among the hottest in Europe and the city stops moving
BilbaoMay to June, and September — this coast is green because it rains, in every seasonMay to June, and September — this coast is green because it rains, in every season

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Spain

aerial view of city buildings during daytimeBarcelonaSpainSun, sea, and Gaudi masterpiecescity scale under blue skyMadridSpainLate nights, great art, and endless tapasbrown concrete building during daytime photoSevilleSpainOrange trees, flamenco, and Moorish palacesAn arched stone doorway framing a view of the white buildings in GranadaGranadaSpainThe last Moorish palace in Europe, with the Sierra Nevada behind it and free tapas belowgray concrete tower beside houseValenciaSpainBeaches, futuristic architecture, and the home of paellaThe green peaks of the Anaga range above the sea, TenerifeTenerifeSpainSpain's highest mountain, with a subtropical winter around its feetThe pine-covered ridges of the Serra de Tramuntana dropping into the sea at Cap de Formentor, MallorcaMallorcaSpainA mountain range, three hundred beaches and a capital most people fly straight pasta view of a city and a lake with boats in the waterSan SebastiánSpainA shell-shaped bay, more Michelin stars per head than almost anywhere, and pintxos eaten standing upaerial photography of white housesMálagaSpainPicasso’s birthplace, a Roman theatre under a Moorish fort, and three hundred days of sunEs Vedrà and Es Vedranell standing off the south-west coast — Ibiza, SpainIbizaSpainThe island the clubs made famous, with a walled Renaissance town and a quiet north almost nobody seeswhite and brown concrete buildingCórdobaSpainA mosque with a cathedral built inside it, and courtyards full of flowers in a city that was once the largest in Europegray concrete building near body of water during daytimeBilbaoSpainA steel city that rebuilt itself around a titanium museum, and eats better than almost anywhere in Europe