Rota climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Rota?

Rota has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.0 °C and it receives 626 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Rota?

The hottest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 20 July 1941, reaching 37.7 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Rota?

The coldest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 4 February 1954, at 0.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Rota?

Almost never: Rota sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Rota warmed?

Yes: Rota warmed by +1.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Rota?

The wettest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 21 January 1996, with 78 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Rota?

The windiest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 15 February 1941, with winds reaching 66.4 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Rota?

The warmest month in Rota is August (24.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (12.4 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Rota?

Rota receives on average 626 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 69 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Rota?

Rota gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Rota (Spain) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 18.0 °C and it receives 626 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is August (24.4 °C on average) and the coldest is January (12.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.

Rota averages 0 frost days, 13 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 69 rainy days per year.

Rota has warmed by +1.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.14 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 37.7 °C (on 20 July 1941) and the coldest 0.6 °C (on 4 February 1954).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

RotaAndalusia

coords: 36.62°, -6.36°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CsaHot-summer MediterraneanWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthDecemberDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

18.0°C

Average daily high

20.9°C

Average daily low

15.3°C

Annual rainfall

626mm

Sunshine / day

10.9h

Mean relative humidity

73%

Average peak wind

22.5km/h

Seasonal range

12.0°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

13 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

69 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

20.3 °C

Average feels-like low

14.0 °C

Average peak gust

34.7 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

72 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.7 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.2 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.40 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

37.7 °C

20 July 1941

Coldest day

0.6 °C

4 February 1954

Wettest day

78 mm

21 January 1996

Windiest day

66.4 km/h

15 February 1941

Strongest gust

122.0 km/h

21 January 1941

Hottest feels-like

39.8 °C

17 July 1991

Coldest feels-like

-5.0 °C

11 February 1956

Snowiest day

3.6 cm

3 February 1954

Sunniest day

14.5 h

28 June 1955

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	35.2 °C12 August 2025	6.9 °C22 December 2025	19.2 °C	768 mm	34
2024	33.0 °C17 August 2024	7.0 °C10 December 2024	19.0 °C	567 mm	16
2023	33.5 °C26 June 2023	5.2 °C29 January 2023	19.3 °C	326 mm	28
2022	35.3 °C25 July 2022	7.3 °C9 January 2022	19.2 °C	529 mm	29
2021	34.7 °C15 August 2021	3.8 °C13 January 2021	18.7 °C	437 mm	8
2020	32.9 °C20 July 2020	6.3 °C30 December 2020	18.9 °C	476 mm	24
2019	30.9 °C19 July 2019	5.1 °C6 January 2019	18.3 °C	262 mm	7
2018	33.0 °C3 August 2018	4.7 °C5 February 2018	18.0 °C	744 mm	18
2017	36.6 °C24 June 2017	2.8 °C19 January 2017	19.1 °C	391 mm	37
2016	34.1 °C5 September 2016	5.3 °C17 February 2016	18.8 °C	639 mm	27
2015	33.7 °C6 July 2015	6.0 °C5 February 2015	18.8 °C	398 mm	23
2014	31.5 °C16 July 2014	6.7 °C8 December 2014	18.4 °C	628 mm	8
2013	33.2 °C19 August 2013	5.9 °C30 December 2013	18.2 °C	558 mm	22
2012	35.1 °C14 May 2012	2.9 °C5 February 2012	18.1 °C	549 mm	16
2011	32.7 °C8 August 2011	6.1 °C3 March 2011	18.8 °C	577 mm	18
2010	34.2 °C26 August 2010	5.3 °C14 February 2010	18.6 °C	1,192 mm	34
2009	32.9 °C22 August 2009	3.3 °C10 January 2009	18.7 °C	650 mm	26
2008	31.0 °C25 June 2008	6.0 °C18 December 2008	18.1 °C	560 mm	10
2007	32.4 °C29 July 2007	3.5 °C26 January 2007	18.0 °C	462 mm	6
2006	35.8 °C11 July 2006	5.7 °C21 December 2006	18.6 °C	707 mm	26
2005	31.8 °C19 July 2005	1.4 °C28 January 2005	18.2 °C	331 mm	19
2004	33.7 °C26 July 2004	4.9 °C28 December 2004	18.3 °C	521 mm	18
2003	35.1 °C1 August 2003	4.4 °C12 January 2003	18.5 °C	838 mm	21
2002	31.5 °C26 July 2002	7.9 °C8 December 2002	18.2 °C	751 mm	7
2001	31.4 °C24 August 2001	6.2 °C11 November 2001	18.4 °C	684 mm	8
2000	32.7 °C1 August 2000	6.4 °C25 January 2000	18.4 °C	683 mm	15
1999	31.8 °C14 July 1999	5.7 °C15 February 1999	17.9 °C	474 mm	9
1998	32.4 °C22 August 1998	5.8 °C8 December 1998	18.4 °C	481 mm	17
1997	31.1 °C13 August 1997	7.7 °C5 December 1997	18.8 °C	801 mm	3
1996	31.6 °C22 July 1996	4.1 °C23 February 1996	18.2 °C	1,405 mm	3
1995	34.0 °C22 July 1995	5.7 °C15 January 1995	18.8 °C	503 mm	21
1994	32.5 °C4 July 1994	4.7 °C26 December 1994	18.1 °C	363 mm	12
1993	32.5 °C4 August 1993	5.1 °C1 March 1993	17.4 °C	468 mm	6
1992	32.7 °C5 August 1992	3.9 °C24 January 1992	17.9 °C	357 mm	20
1991	35.3 °C17 July 1991	5.0 °C28 December 1991	17.9 °C	530 mm	30
1990	32.2 °C5 August 1990	6.5 °C30 November 1990	18.5 °C	445 mm	26
1989	34.7 °C9 August 1989	6.6 °C23 January 1989	18.7 °C	960 mm	25
1988	32.9 °C8 September 1988	4.0 °C28 February 1988	18.1 °C	480 mm	21
1987	32.3 °C20 August 1987	3.5 °C16 January 1987	18.3 °C	820 mm	13
1986	30.9 °C18 July 1986	5.5 °C24 December 1986	17.7 °C	420 mm	8
1985	33.2 °C4 August 1985	3.0 °C16 January 1985	18.2 °C	626 mm	8
1984	33.2 °C23 July 1984	5.4 °C31 December 1984	17.4 °C	451 mm	9
1983	31.4 °C20 September 1983	4.1 °C13 February 1983	18.1 °C	531 mm	6
1982	34.2 °C19 August 1982	5.8 °C1 December 1982	17.8 °C	534 mm	7
1981	31.9 °C13 June 1981	4.1 °C12 January 1981	18.2 °C	333 mm	8
1980	32.9 °C30 August 1980	4.1 °C2 December 1980	17.7 °C	454 mm	12
1979	32.3 °C29 July 1979	4.1 °C21 December 1979	17.6 °C	740 mm	4
1978	34.3 °C16 July 1978	4.3 °C14 January 1978	17.8 °C	552 mm	17
1977	29.1 °C26 June 1977	5.2 °C7 January 1977	17.5 °C	638 mm	0
1976	32.1 °C6 August 1976	3.5 °C27 January 1976	17.3 °C	718 mm	15
1975	34.3 °C15 July 1975	7.0 °C23 January 1975	17.3 °C	606 mm	11
1974	31.3 °C11 August 1974	6.2 °C5 March 1974	17.4 °C	412 mm	17
1973	32.0 °C14 August 1973	5.8 °C3 December 1973	17.5 °C	467 mm	9
1972	30.7 °C10 July 1972	5.2 °C24 January 1972	16.7 °C	979 mm	1
1971	31.2 °C30 July 1971	2.8 °C2 January 1971	17.2 °C	617 mm	4
1970	31.5 °C25 July 1970	3.9 °C24 December 1970	17.9 °C	810 mm	8
1969	31.4 °C7 July 1969	5.3 °C1 December 1969	17.7 °C	945 mm	7
1968	31.4 °C21 July 1968	5.7 °C12 January 1968	17.9 °C	761 mm	11
1967	34.4 °C19 July 1967	3.1 °C13 December 1967	17.6 °C	567 mm	11
1966	31.6 °C12 July 1966	5.9 °C25 December 1966	17.8 °C	559 mm	4
1965	31.9 °C4 August 1965	3.2 °C5 January 1965	17.7 °C	759 mm	5
1964	32.1 °C17 September 1964	3.9 °C30 December 1964	18.1 °C	568 mm	16
1963	30.5 °C28 July 1963	4.5 °C30 January 1963	17.8 °C	1,113 mm	4
1962	33.9 °C28 July 1962	3.3 °C25 December 1962	18.0 °C	890 mm	20
1961	30.7 °C9 July 1961	5.0 °C14 January 1961	18.5 °C	1,017 mm	12
1960	31.0 °C29 August 1960	4.2 °C17 January 1960	17.8 °C	978 mm	6
1959	32.1 °C6 July 1959	6.8 °C4 January 1959	17.7 °C	548 mm	6
1958	32.2 °C30 July 1958	5.1 °C24 January 1958	17.9 °C	518 mm	4
1957	31.8 °C13 July 1957	3.5 °C16 January 1957	17.7 °C	610 mm	11
1956	30.1 °C1 August 1956	0.9 °C12 February 1956	16.9 °C	727 mm	2
1955	32.2 °C4 July 1955	5.2 °C11 March 1955	18.8 °C	1,069 mm	8
1954	32.4 °C25 July 1954	0.6 °C4 February 1954	17.5 °C	374 mm	8
1953	33.2 °C19 July 1953	3.4 °C16 February 1953	17.9 °C	686 mm	12
1952	32.4 °C9 July 1952	4.7 °C22 January 1952	17.5 °C	591 mm	7
1951	31.6 °C28 July 1951	5.8 °C30 January 1951	17.4 °C	633 mm	5
1950	31.0 °C29 July 1950	4.5 °C31 December 1950	18.0 °C	504 mm	14
1949	32.4 °C9 August 1949	4.9 °C12 January 1949	18.3 °C	475 mm	20
1948	31.2 °C25 July 1948	6.1 °C18 January 1948	18.0 °C	592 mm	3
1947	32.3 °C31 July 1947	4.9 °C20 December 1947	18.3 °C	733 mm	11
1946	35.2 °C6 August 1946	2.1 °C17 January 1946	17.6 °C	698 mm	17
1945	33.8 °C22 July 1945	2.4 °C13 January 1945	18.4 °C	421 mm	7
1944	32.3 °C31 July 1944	4.8 °C30 December 1944	17.8 °C	379 mm	7
1943	31.7 °C7 August 1943	4.2 °C1 January 1943	17.9 °C	636 mm	15
1942	32.7 °C17 July 1942	3.4 °C8 January 1942	17.5 °C	877 mm	12
1941	37.7 °C20 July 1941	1.5 °C4 January 1941	17.5 °C	761 mm	22
1940	32.9 °C19 August 1940	2.2 °C23 January 1940	17.3 °C	671 mm	11

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

22.1 °C

+1.2 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

34 d/yr

+21

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

768 mm

+142 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	16.7 °C	+1.6 °C	83 mm	+1 mm
Feb	17.2 °C	+1.4 °C	35 mm	-39 mm
Mar	16.9 °C	-0.4 °C	263 mm	+186 mm
Apr	19.6 °C	+0.8 °C	71 mm	+16 mm
May	23.0 °C	+1.6 °C	17 mm	-14 mm
Jun	27.7 °C	+3.2 °C	7 mm	-2 mm
Jul	27.7 °C	+0.3 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Aug	29.2 °C	+1.5 °C	0 mm	-3 mm
Sep	26.8 °C	+1.2 °C	6 mm	-18 mm
Oct	24.6 °C	+2.3 °C	65 mm	-10 mm
Nov	19.1 °C	+0.6 °C	114 mm	+21 mm
Dec	15.8 °C	-0.2 °C	107 mm	+6 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

35.2 °C

12 Aug 2025

Coldest day

6.9 °C

22 Dec 2025

Wettest day

53.1 mm

29 Oct 2025

Windiest day

52.8 km/h

13 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

85.0 km/h

13 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.2 °C

17 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

3.8 °C

15 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

14.4 h

29 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Rota?

Rota has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.0 °C and it receives 626 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Rota?

The hottest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 20 July 1941, reaching 37.7 °C.

What is the coldest day in Rota?

The coldest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 4 February 1954, at 0.6 °C.

Does it snow in Rota?

Almost never: Rota sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Rota warmed?

Yes: Rota warmed by +1.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Rota?

The wettest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 21 January 1996, with 78 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Rota?

The windiest day measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 15 February 1941, with winds reaching 66.4 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Rota?

The warmest month in Rota is August (24.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (12.4 °C).

How much does it rain in Rota?

Rota receives on average 626 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 69 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Rota?

Rota gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Rota?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Rota between 1940 and 2025 was 3 February 1954, with 3.6 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Rota?

Yes: Rota has on average 72 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Rota?

In Rota, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.8 °C on 17 July 1991, and the lowest was -5.0 °C on 11 February 1956.

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