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It is a claim used in most pieces of marketing material that cover the Costa del Sol, but very few – if any – official organisations have actually verified whether it really is true that the Costa del Sol enjoys 320 sunny days a year…
That would mean, if correct, residents of the region only have to suffer through 45 days a year when the sun doesn’t poke its shiny visage through the clouds. Anecdotally, that sounds about right, but a new report by the national Meteorological Agency has confirmed that the region really is Spain’s sunniest spot.
According to the agency, the stretch of coastline along the Mediterranean in southern Spain that can loosely be defined as the Costa del Sol enjoys 2,905 hours of sun every year, beating out the Canary Islands – the second sunniest corner of Spain – by more than one hundred hours.
Now, the Costa del Sol is a big place, and anybody who has ever spent an oddly overcast day in Gibraltar, for example, may question these findings. There are obviously variations along the coastline, with the city of Málaga actually the sunniest place in the entire country, boasting 3,000 hours of sunshine every year.
Granada runs Málaga close, however, recording 2,917 hours of sunshine, according to the report, while Almería generally sees more than 2,990 hours of sunshine annually.
The award for finest climate in Spain also goes to Málaga, said the agency, which praised its “mild winter, very mild minimum temperatures and moderate summers due to the influence of the sea”.
Málaga’s average annual temperature is a pleasant 18.5 degrees Celsius, rising to a manageable 25.4ºC in August. “Rainfall is also low,” added the report, “with an annual average of 469.2 mm. With 3,000 hours of annual sunshine and light wind, we can say that Málaga is one of the best cities in Spain to live.”
In a survey conducted earlier in the year, Málaga was also rated as Spain’s most satisfactory place to live.
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Daniel LozanoAugust 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm
A load of bunkum as anybody who keeps a record of actual sunny (cloudless days is concerned. I challenge anyone to keep a diary
and record the temperatures and countless impossibly hot, humid
and heavily contaminated days in Summer and miserably cold and humid weeks in the winter. Even the air-conditioning in the summer can
hardly cope during July and August with buckets of water every few
hours to find uses for. This year in particular the so called non
existant chem-trials have covered the sky for months on end with
scores of people gawping at the thought they could be being fumigated. What of the “deadly bochorno” like today, always when it is overcast and there is no breeeze for example ? Given that we do not really want to have sunshine every day and welcome the odd cooling
change with healthy overcast weather, there is no need to overemphasize. One could harldly say that the weather on this part of the coast is particulary friendly at the best of times when a really nice day combining all the elements are few and far between. Did
someone not notice that the Atlantic is only a few miles away ?
I should imagine the tourist office contribution to this entity must be considerable since we recorded over 43 in shade in Estepona when themet said 36 top whack. It often does not match. Something does
not add up.
Perhaps the met office should look at their own daily
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