Climate
Huesca has a mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa), with drier summers, and wetter springs and autumns, but with some characteristics of a continental climate, such as more extreme temperatures, as the town lies in a wide basin (the Ebro basin) entirely surrounded by mountains.
The average precipitation is a scanty 550 mm. There is drought in summer. The temperatures are high in summer reaching up to 35 °C (95 °F). In winter the temperatures are low (usually -5 to 8 °C). Frost is common and there is sporadic snowfall.
| Climate data for Huesca | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 8.5 (47.3) |
11.5 (52.7) |
15 (59) |
17.2 (63.0) |
21.2 (70.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
30.8 (87.4) |
30.2 (86.4) |
25.5 (77.9) |
19.1 (66.4) |
12.9 (55.2) |
9.1 (48.4) |
19.0 (66.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.9 (40.8) |
7.0 (44.6) |
9.6 (49.3) |
11.4 (52.5) |
15.3 (59.5) |
19.7 (67.5) |
23.4 (74.1) |
23.3 (73.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
14.3 (57.7) |
8.9 (48.0) |
5.6 (42.1) |
13.6 (56.5) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 1.3 (34.3) |
2.5 (36.5) |
4.2 (39.6) |
5.7 (42.3) |
9.3 (48.7) |
12.9 (55.2) |
16.1 (61.0) |
16.3 (61.3) |
13.5 (56.3) |
9.5 (49.1) |
4.9 (40.8) |
2.1 (35.8) |
8.2 (46.8) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 39 (1.54) |
32 (1.26) |
34 (1.34) |
53 (2.09) |
62 (2.44) |
47 (1.85) |
20 (0.79) |
38 (1.5) |
54 (2.13) |
54 (2.13) |
50 (1.97) |
51 (2.01) |
535 (21.06) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 1 mm) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 62 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 131 | 169 | 220 | 245 | 265 | 298 | 339 | 310 | 241 | 197 | 144 | 113 | 2,682 |
| Source: AEMET | |||||||||||||
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