Marbella in October
Shoulder season proper: warm days, a cooling sea, and the town's own film festival.
Weather in October
Full October weather, day by day normals: October
Sea temperature in October
cooling from the summer peak, still swimmable for most
Sea temperature, bathing water and jellyfish reports: Average sea temperature
AEMET's normal for October drops to a 24.1°C daytime high, with rain returning more seriously, 57mm over 4.4 days, the wettest month since spring. The sea has started cooling from its summer peak, down to 20.3°C on Open-Meteo's reanalysis, still swimmable for most. The town's own film festival usually runs in the second week of October, its own cultural fixture outside the summer calendar. With the fairs and the festival season behind it, October reads as one of the more comfortable months for weather without the August crowds.
What's on in October
- 2026 dates
- 7–12 October 2026
The full calendar, every date sourced: Marbella's events calendar
More on October
Questions
What's the weather like in Marbella in October?
A daytime high around 24.1°C, an overnight low near 15°C, 4.4 days of rain and 215 hours of sunshine, AEMET's 1981–2010 normal for the Málaga Airport station, the nearest full weather station to Marbella.
Is the sea warm enough to swim in Marbella in October?
Marbella's sea averages 20.3°C in October, an Open-Meteo marine reanalysis for 2023–2025 at the nearest modelled point to the coast, not an in-situ buoy reading.
What's on in Marbella in October?
See the dated town events on this page, each read from the organiser's own listing or the Ayuntamiento de Marbella's own calendar rather than guessed at.
Every weather and sea figure on this page is a published normal, not a forecast for this year; every event date is read from the organiser's own listing or the Ayuntamiento's own calendar on the date shown. Nothing here is estimated or carried over from a previous year without saying so.
AEMET (Málaga Airport, 1981-2010): https://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos?l=6155A&k=and · Open-Meteo marine (2023-2025): https://marine-api.open-meteo.com/v1/marine