Climate averages 1991–2020
Orihuela weather
in September.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Orihuela: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 18.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes September a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 28 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Murcia (20 km away). In September its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Orihuela, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Orihuela ranks 5th of 93 for the warmest September highs and joint 55th of 93 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 93 cities is 25.5°C; Orihuela is 3.8°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 4.3°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 37 mm to 32 mm.
The annual picture
September in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Orihuela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.2°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 24 | 4.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 17.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 20 | 4.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 20.3°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 30 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.8°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 30 | 4.8 | 13.213 h |
| May | 26.3°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 23 | 3.6 | 14.214 h |
| June | 30.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 9.8 | 1.7 | 14.815 h |
| July | 33.1°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 2.5 | 0.5 | 14.515 h |
| August | 33.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 7.4 | 1.9 | 13.614 h |
| September, selected | 29.3°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 37 | 4.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 32 | 5.0 | 11.211 h |
| November | 19.6°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 31 | 5.0 | 10.210 h |
| December | 16.5°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 23 | 4.0 | 9.610 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
September in nearby cities
- Murcia in SeptemberSpain · 20 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 18.0°C · 39 mm rain
- Torrevieja in SeptemberSpain · 26 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 19.8°C · 37 mm rain
- Elche in SeptemberSpain · 29 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 18.7°C · 36 mm rain
- Alicante in SeptemberSpain · 50 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 20.0°C · 32 mm rain
- Cartagena, Spain in SeptemberSpain · 54 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 21.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Lorca in SeptemberSpain · 81 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 17.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Benidorm in SeptemberSpain · 87 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Gandia in SeptemberSpain · 118 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.1°C · 82 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Orihuela) is explained once on the Orihuela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.