When to go

Any time of year is good to visit Spain, as long as you take into account that the country has four distinct seasons of the year and that, due to the altitude and interiority, certain areas have more extreme temperature extremes than in Portugal.

In winter, in the higher areas of northern Spain, temperatures can drop sharply below -10°C. Instead, at the height of summer, in Seville and other parts of the vast plateau Spain, Extremadura and Andalusia, approach 45ºC several times. The areas in the northern provinces facing the Bay of Biscay or close by are the wettest and greenest in the country.

The high season for Spanish tourism runs from June to September, but certain areas preserve large numbers of tourists and even foreign “residents” for most of the year. This is the case of the Balearic archipelago and even some of the most popular areas of the Canary Islands.