Malaga Weather Blog

It can be disappointing!

The sun is shining again and the temperature is rising nicely. A chilly breeze is blowing but in shelter it is a typical winter’s day in Malaga. It’s a different story the other side of the coastal mountains, and anyone from the cruise ships that have headed up to Cordoba during the last few days have encountered some fairly poor weather. At present, there are cloudy skies with the temperature only just climbing above 11 Celsius. Yesterday, the maximum value was only 13 compared with 19 here. The last couple of weeks have felt cold during the evenings and nights, but dawn lows between 8 and 10 Celsius are mild compared with the minima recorded in Cordoba. At the end of November the temperature fell to minus 4 Celsius at Cordoba Airport whereas Malaga Airport has seen nothing below plus 6 Celsius! The shelter offered by the coastal mountains, plus the proximity to the sea, , is why the Costa del Sol is the winter choice for thousands of tourists. Although Malaga is not without it’s wintry moments, a comparison of extreme minimum temperatures tells it’s own story. The lowest December ever recorded at Cordoba Airport was minus 8 on the 22nd December 1979. .In Malaga it was minus 0.8 …..strangely enough on the same day!