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title: "Camino weather month by month"
description: "Rain days and temperatures for ten points on the Camino, month by month, from Roncesvalles to Finisterre. Astorga gets 98 rain days a year, Oviedo 173."
url: https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/weather
locale: en
---

# Camino weather month by month

Numbers, not adjectives

How many days it rains and how warm it gets at ten points along the Camino, from Roncesvalles to Finisterre. Thirty-year averages, not the forecast for your week.

**Driest point**

Astorga · 98 rain days a year

**Wettest**

Oviedo · 173 days a year

**Dry window**

July and August, except in Asturias

![Lluvia y paraguas sobre los tejados de Santiago, grabado dorado](https://santiago.es/img/illus/lluvia.jpg)

[© santiago.es · Ilustración](https://santiago.es)

By [Cesar Rodriguez](https://santiago.es/en/author) · updated 21 October 2026

“What is the weather like in October?” is one of the most repeated questions among people planning the Camino, and it almost always gets answered with adjectives. Here are the numbers: how many days it rains and how warm it gets, month by month, at ten points spread across the routes this guide covers. These are **averages over the thirty years from 1995 to 2024**, so they describe what is likely, not what will happen the week you walk. For that, see [the forecast and the city’s climate](https://santiago.es/en/weather).

## How many days it rains, month by month

This is the figure that actually decides how the walking feels, more than total rainfall: what matters is how many mornings you put the rain jacket on. A rain day counts when **1 mm or more** falls, the threshold used by AEMET, the Spanish met office, and by the World Meteorological Organization. Below that you do not get wet: it is dew or a few drops.

**Days with 1 mm of rain or more, average for 1995-2024. The last column is the whole year.**

| Point | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roncesvalles (Francés) | 14.4 | 12.9 | 14.4 | 16 | 15.7 | 12.7 | 10.7 | 11.9 | 11.9 | 12.1 | 14.8 | 13.7 | 161 |
| Astorga (Francés) | 9.7 | 7.5 | 9.8 | 11 | 9.7 | 6.9 | 4.1 | 4 | 5.5 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 98 |
| O Cebreiro (Francés) | 14.9 | 12.1 | 13.6 | 14.7 | 14.1 | 10.7 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 9.4 | 13.5 | 15.7 | 14.6 | 148 |
| Sarria (Francés) | 13.5 | 11 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 12.2 | 9 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 8.4 | 12.9 | 14.8 | 13.5 | 133 |
| Santiago de Compostela (All routes) | 14.4 | 11.9 | 13 | 14.3 | 12.7 | 9 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 8.7 | 14.1 | 15.8 | 14.6 | 142 |
| Oviedo (Primitivo) | 14.5 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 15.9 | 16.9 | 15.1 | 13.8 | 13.9 | 12.7 | 13.7 | 15.9 | 14.2 | 173 |
| Porto (Portugués) | 12.6 | 9.6 | 11.6 | 12.1 | 10.8 | 6.6 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 12.9 | 13.2 | 13 | 117 |
| Tui (Portugués) | 14.3 | 10.9 | 12.4 | 13.4 | 12.1 | 7.9 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 8.1 | 13.9 | 14.9 | 14.5 | 133 |
| Ferrol (English Way) | 15.2 | 12.3 | 13.8 | 14.2 | 12.1 | 9.3 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 9.6 | 13.9 | 16.5 | 15.2 | 147 |
| Finisterre (Finisterre) | 17 | 12.9 | 13.5 | 13.3 | 11.6 | 8.2 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 8.6 | 15.2 | 16.7 | 16 | 146 |

Three things come out of that table, and none of them is the usual story.

### The rain does not come back in September: it comes back in October, all at once

In Santiago it goes from **8.7 rain days in September to 14.1 in October**, and the same jump repeats at every Galician point and at Tui. September still belongs to the climatic summer and October does not: the break sits between the two months, not inside September. That fits with September being [the busiest arrival month of the year](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/pilgrim-statistics), and it is the most useful calendar argument on this page: moving a departure from early October to mid-September takes **5.4 rain days off the month**, 38 % fewer.

### Asturias has no dry summer, and Galicia does

This is where the cliché about Galicia being the rainy part falls apart. In July and August Santiago drops to **6.6 and 6.7 rain days**, while **Oviedo stays at 13.8 and 13.9**: more than double, in the middle of August. Oviedo is also the wettest point in the table over the full year, 173days against Santiago’s 142. If your plan is [the Primitivo](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/primitivo), summer will not spare you the rain jacket the way it spares someone starting in Sarria.

### Astorga is a different climate, not the same one with less rain

**98 rain days a year**, the lowest in the table, and in July and August **4.1 and 4 days**, effectively dry. The price is on the thermometer: the average August high is **26.8 °C** and the average January low is **0.3 °C**. This is the continental climate of the Castilian plateau, crossed on the Francés just before climbing into the mountains of León. There the summer problem is not getting wet: it is shade and water.

## Temperatures month by month

Each cell is the **average low before dawn and the average high in the afternoon**, not a daily mean: if you set off at seven in the morning you get the first figure, not the second.

**Average low and high in °C, average for 1995-2024.**

| Point | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roncesvalles | 0.2 – 6.4 | 0.3 – 7.4 | 2.1 – 10.1 | 4 – 12.2 | 7.2 – 15.7 | 10.8 – 19.8 | 12.7 – 21.9 | 13.2 – 22.3 | 10.7 – 19 | 8.4 – 15.7 | 3.7 – 9.6 | 1.4 – 7.2 |
| Astorga | 0.3 – 7.6 | 0.6 – 9.3 | 2.2 – 12.3 | 4.2 – 14.8 | 7.3 – 18.5 | 11.4 – 23.4 | 13.6 – 26.7 | 13.7 – 26.8 | 11.2 – 22.6 | 7.9 – 17.2 | 3.4 – 10.8 | 1.2 – 8 |
| O Cebreiro | -1.6 – 5.3 | -1.7 – 6.4 | -0.4 – 8.8 | 1.5 – 10.9 | 4.4 – 13.9 | 8.1 – 18 | 10.2 – 20.6 | 10.4 – 21 | 8.1 – 18 | 5.4 – 13.7 | 1.4 – 8.2 | -0.7 – 6.1 |
| Sarria | 3.1 – 10.1 | 3 – 11.4 | 4.4 – 13.9 | 6.1 – 15.7 | 8.9 – 18.5 | 12.1 – 22.2 | 14.1 – 24.7 | 14.3 – 25.3 | 12.4 – 22.7 | 10 – 18.5 | 6.1 – 13 | 3.8 – 10.8 |
| Santiago de Compostela | 4.4 – 11.2 | 4.4 – 12.2 | 5.6 – 14.3 | 7 – 16 | 9.3 – 18.3 | 12.1 – 21.3 | 14 – 23.6 | 14.6 – 24.2 | 13 – 22.3 | 10.7 – 18.5 | 7.3 – 13.8 | 5.1 – 11.9 |
| Oviedo | 3.1 – 11.3 | 3.2 – 12.1 | 4.5 – 14.2 | 6.1 – 15.3 | 8.8 – 17.6 | 12.1 – 20.1 | 14 – 21.9 | 14.3 – 22.5 | 12.2 – 21 | 9.8 – 18.8 | 6.3 – 13.9 | 4 – 12 |
| Porto | 6.6 – 13 | 6.8 – 14.2 | 8.3 – 16.2 | 10 – 17.7 | 12.3 – 20 | 15 – 22.9 | 16.6 – 25.1 | 17 – 25.7 | 15.8 – 24 | 13.5 – 20.5 | 9.8 – 15.9 | 7.6 – 13.7 |
| Tui | 5.6 – 13 | 5.6 – 14.2 | 7.1 – 16.4 | 8.8 – 17.9 | 11.3 – 20.3 | 14.3 – 23.4 | 16.1 – 25.8 | 16.4 – 26.3 | 14.7 – 24.3 | 12.4 – 20.5 | 8.6 – 15.8 | 6.3 – 13.7 |
| Ferrol | 7.9 – 12.4 | 7.7 – 12.9 | 8.6 – 14.4 | 9.6 – 15.5 | 11.8 – 17.5 | 14.4 – 19.8 | 16.1 – 21.6 | 16.8 – 22.3 | 15.6 – 21.2 | 13.6 – 18.8 | 10.6 – 14.9 | 8.8 – 13.2 |
| Finisterre | 9.1 – 12.8 | 8.9 – 13.1 | 9.7 – 14.3 | 10.6 – 15.4 | 12.6 – 17.2 | 14.9 – 19.5 | 16.5 – 21.1 | 17.1 – 21.7 | 16.2 – 20.7 | 14.4 – 18.4 | 11.7 – 15.2 | 10 – 13.6 |

O Cebreiro is below freezing on average three months a year

The average low at O Cebreiro is **-1.6 °C in January, -1.7 °C in February and -0.7 °C in December**: below zero on average, not on a bad day. At 1,300 metres, on the Galician stretch of the Francés, that means ice on the ground and snow a real possibility. Roncesvalles and Astorga hover around 0 °C in the same months. If you walk in winter, the cold of the Camino is not in Galicia at sea level: it is in the three passes.

## Where these numbers come from, and what you will not find here

The data is the **ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis**, served by [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/historical-weather-api). A reanalysis is a model fed with observations, not a thermometer in a village, and that has consequences worth stating before you find them yourself. The source a Spanish reader would recognise is AEMET, and it was the first one tried: its public API needs a key requested by email, so it is not usable from here today.

To know how far to trust these figures, they were checked against the **AEMET normals for the Santiago airport observatory** (370 m, 1991-2020 period). The result, with the detail in [the script that generates the table](https://github.com/kesar/santiago/blob/main/scripts/clima-camino.mjs):

- **Rain days: they hold up.** 142 a year against 136 at the station, and month by month the difference never exceeds two days. It is the most solid figure on the page.
- **Temperatures: good, with one caveat.** The model flattens the daily range: highs come out up to 1.2 °C low and lows up to 1.1 °C high. So the real afternoon is a little warmer and the real dawn a little colder than the table says.
- **Millimetres of rain: not published.** ERA5 gives 1,280 mm a year in Santiago against 1,675 at the station, **24 % less**, and it falls short in all twelve months. A model working in nine-kilometre cells spreads the water out and loses the heavy showers, which in Galicia are where the total comes from. So there is not a single millimetre figure on this page.

And a mountain caveat: at high points the model may place the village at a different altitude from the real one, and every 100 metres is worth about 0.6 °C. At the ten points in this table the difference is small — O Cebreiro comes out at 1302 m against the real 1300 m — but that is why both figures are in the data file.

## Which month to pick, depending on what matters to you

| If you want… | The month | What to expect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| To get wet as little as possible | July and August | In Galicia, 6.6-6.7 rain days a month. In Astorga, four. In exchange, full albergues. |
| The best balance | September | 8.7 rain days and highs of 22.3 °C in Santiago, with fewer people than in August. |
| To walk cool and in shade | May and June | Highs of 18.3-21.3 °C in Galicia, but 12.7 and 9 rain days. |
| Solitude | November to February | 15.8-14.4 rain days a month in Galicia and ice in the passes. And half the route shut: check the calendar. |
| To avoid the heat of the plateau | April, May, September or October | Astorga goes from an average high of 26.8 °C in August to 17.2 °C in October. |

The weather is only half the decision. The other half is what is open: the Napoleon route closes in winter, mountain albergues have dates and backpack transfer does not run all year. That is in [when the Camino opens and closes](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/season), and the two are meant to be read together.

## Frequently asked questions

**Which is the driest month on the Camino de Santiago?**

July and August at almost every point. In Santiago de Compostela they drop to 6.6 and 6.7 rain days a month, against 14-16 from November to January, and in Astorga to about four. The exception is Asturias: in Oviedo, the start of the Camino Primitivo, July and August still run at 13.8 and 13.9 rain days, more than double Galicia.

**Does it rain a lot on the Camino in October?**

More than in September, and the change is abrupt. Santiago goes from 8.7 rain days in September to 14.1 in October, and the same jump happens in Sarria, Tui, Ferrol and Finisterre. If you can choose, mid-September and early October are not the same thing.

**Is it cold on the Camino in winter?**

On the coast and in Santiago, not very: average lows of 4-9 °C in January. The cold is in the three mountain passes. O Cebreiro, at 1,300 metres, has average lows below freezing in December, January and February (-1.6 °C in January), and Roncesvalles and Astorga hover around 0 °C. That means ice on the ground and possible snow, not just cold.

**How many rain days a year are there on the Camino?**

It depends a great deal on the point, and that is the useful answer: between 98 days a year in Astorga, on the plateau, and 173 in Oviedo, in Asturias. Santiago de Compostela sits at 142 and Sarria, the start of the last hundred kilometres, at 133. These are days with 1 mm or more, averaged over 1995-2024.

**Is this a weather forecast?**

No. These are thirty-year averages, 1995 to 2024: they say what is likely in a given month, not what it will do on the day you walk. For the forecast, check AEMET in the days before you leave. And they are averages from a reanalysis, so they are good for comparing months and points with each other, not as a record or as the figure for one specific day.

## To carry on planning

**[When the Camino opens and closes](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/season)** — The other half of the decision — Which albergues, passes and services have dates, month by month. — See the calendar

**[What to pack](https://santiago.es/en/camino-de-santiago/packing)** — Kit — What changes on the list if you walk in the rainy months. — See the list

**[Weather in Santiago](https://santiago.es/en/weather)** — The city only — The city's climate month by month and what to do if it rains on you. — See the climate