Climate
Las Palmas has a Subtropical – semi-arid climate with Mediterranean precipitation patterns, with warm dry summers and moderately warm winters. Its average annual temperature is 20 °C (68 °F) – 23 °C (73 °F) during the day and 17 °C (63 °F) at night. In the coldest month – January – the temperature typically ranges from 18 to 23 °C (64 to 73 °F) during the day (and sometimes more), around 15 °C (59 °F) at night, the average sea temperature is 19 °C (66 °F). In the warmest months – August and September – the temperature typically ranges from 25 to 29 °C (77 to 84 °F) during the day, above 20 °C (68 °F) at night, the average sea temperature is 23 °C (73 °F). Large fluctuations in temperature are rare.
On the August 1990 reported record, the average maximum temperature of the month during the day was 30.6 °C (87.1 °F). The coldest temperature ever recorded was 6.5 °C (43.7 °F) at night on 27 March 1954. The highest wind speed ever recorded was on the 28th of November 2005, measuring 113 km/h (70.21 mph). Las Palmas city has never recorded any snow.
Annual average relative humidity is 68%, ranging from 65% in March to 71% in October. Sunshine duration hours is above 2,800 per year, from around 190 in winter (average above 6 hours of sunshine duration at day) to around 300 in summer (average 10 hours of sunshine duration at day). It rains on average only 33 days a year, with total precipitation per year of only 133 mm (5.2 inches). Las Palmas enjoys "the best climate in the world" according to a study carried out by Thomas Whitmore at Syracuse University.
| Climate data for Las Palmas | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 20.6 (69.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
21.8 (71.2) |
22.1 (71.8) |
23.1 (73.6) |
24.7 (76.5) |
26.5 (79.7) |
27.1 (80.8) |
27.1 (80.8) |
25.8 (78.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
21.8 (71.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 17.6 (63.7) |
17.9 (64.2) |
18.6 (65.5) |
18.9 (66.0) |
20.0 (68.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.4 (74.1) |
24.1 (75.4) |
24.1 (75.4) |
22.7 (72.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
18.7 (65.7) |
20.7 (69.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 14.7 (58.5) |
14.9 (58.8) |
15.4 (59.7) |
15.7 (60.3) |
17.0 (62.6) |
18.7 (65.7) |
20.4 (68.7) |
21.2 (70.2) |
21.2 (70.2) |
19.7 (67.5) |
17.9 (64.2) |
15.7 (60.3) |
17.7 (63.9) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 18 (0.71) |
24 (0.94) |
14 (0.55) |
7 (0.28) |
2 (0.08) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
10 (0.39) |
13 (0.51) |
18 (0.71) |
27 (1.06) |
133 (5.24) |
| Avg. rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 20 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 191 | 192 | 218 | 224 | 265 | 281 | 304 | 294 | 238 | 218 | 191 | 189 | 2,805 |
| Source: World Meteorological Organization (UN), Agencia Estatal de Meteorología | |||||||||||||
| Climate data for Las Palmas | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 21.1 (70.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.8 (73.0) |
23.9 (75.0) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
24.4 (75.9) |
22.8 (73.0) |
23.62 (74.51) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 17.8 (64.0) |
18.1 (64.6) |
18.3 (64.9) |
18.9 (66.0) |
19.7 (67.5) |
21.1 (70.0) |
22.2 (72.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.3 (73.9) |
22.8 (73.0) |
21.1 (70.0) |
19.2 (66.6) |
20.51 (68.91) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 14.4 (57.9) |
14.4 (57.9) |
15.0 (59.0) |
16.1 (61.0) |
16.7 (62.1) |
18.3 (64.9) |
19.4 (66.9) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.6 (69.1) |
19.4 (66.9) |
17.8 (64.0) |
15.6 (60.1) |
17.40 (63.32) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 35.6 (1.402) |
22.9 (0.902) |
22.9 (0.902) |
12.7 (0.5) |
5.1 (0.201) |
1.3 (0.051) |
1.3 (0.051) |
1.3 (0.051) |
5.1 (0.201) |
27.9 (1.098) |
53.3 (2.098) |
40.6 (1.598) |
230 (9.06) |
| Source: Worldwide Bioclimatic Classification System | |||||||||||||
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