Weather

Marbella weather, month by month

Twelve months of averages for the Costa del Sol, built from one source: AEMET's 1981–2010 climate normal for Málaga Airport, the nearest full weather station to Marbella.

The year at a glance

Hottest
30.8°C
August · High
Coolest
7.4°C
January · Low
Sunniest
347h
July · Sun hours
Driest
0mm
July · Rain days

Marbella weather, month by month

Questions

What's the best month to visit Marbella?

It depends what you want from it. May, June and September combine high sunshine, 292–329 hours, with less rain than the months either side and daytime highs in the mid-to-high 20s°C rather than August's low 30s. July and August are hottest and driest outright; November and December are the wettest.

Which month has the most rain in Marbella?

November and December, both averaging 100mm. December also has the most rainy days of any month, 6.6 on average. From May to August, rainfall drops to 20mm or less, and July's normal is 0mm.

Is Marbella warm in winter?

By European standards, yes: January, the coolest month, still averages a 16.8°C daytime high. Frost is close to non-existent at the Málaga Airport station, an average of 0.1 days in January and 0.1 in February, and none at all the rest of the year.

How this page is built

Every figure on this page is AEMET's own published 1981–2010 climate normal for the Málaga Airport station, the nearest station to Marbella with a full climate record; Marbella itself has none. Nothing here is forecast, estimated, or extrapolated.

AEMET (Spain's State Meteorological Agency), Málaga Airport station, 1981-2010 normals. Read 20 August 2026. View the data at AEMET · AEMET's data licence