Weather in Palma: live forecast and climate month by month

1Live forecast for the city of Palma

The forecast below applies to the coordinates of Palma city centre (39.5696 N, 2.6502 E). It comes from MET Norway, covers around 9 to 10 days and updates automatically.

MET Norway provides no values beyond that. For later travel dates this page only shows the monthly averages of past years in the table below. The page on the 14 and 16 day forecast explains why.

2Palma climate month by month

The table shows the averages for the years 2011 to 2025 at the AEMET station Palma Puerto for all twelve months.

Averages of past years, not a forecast. Station: Palma Puerto (AEMET B228). Fuente: AEMET. Sea: NOAA OISST v2.1, open sea.

Summer in Palma is hot and almost dry. In July the average high is 30.6 °C, in August 30.9 °C. The nights stay warm too: in August the temperature drops on average only to 23.6 °C. In July just 3.0 mm of rain falls on 0.6 rain days.

Winter is mild. In January Palma reaches 16.3 °C by day and 8.7 °C at night. The coolest nights come in February with 8.6 °C on average.

In spring the high climbs from 20.4 °C in April to 23.5 °C in May. In autumn it falls back from 28.3 °C in September through 25.1 °C in October to 20.3 °C in November.

Autumn is the wettest season. The wettest month is November with 87.3 mm on 8.1 rain days. In October 63.1 mm falls on 4.9 rain days. Over the year Palma adds up to 457.3 mm on 51.5 rain days.

3Sea temperature off the Bay of Palma

The sea off Palma is coldest in February at 14.5 °C on average. In May it is 18.9 °C, in June 22.7 °C. The water is warmest in August at 26.9 °C, in September it is still 25.9 °C and in October 23.5 °C.

The values come from the NOAA OISST satellite analysis of the sea surface at the entrance to the Bay of Palma (39.375 N, 2.625 E), around 22 km in a straight line south of the city centre. They are averaged over 2011 to 2025. At the beach and in shallow coves the water can be warmer or colder. The page on sea temperature in Mallorca compares other coasts.

4What to do in Palma on rainy and hot days

Palma has few rain days over the year, but in autumn they come more often. November has 8.1 rain days on average. That is when places with a roof are worth it:

• La Seu cathedral: a Gothic building right by the sea, next to the royal palace of La Almudaina.
• City history museum in Bellver Castle: the museum of the history of Palma is housed in a round Gothic castle from the 14th century, on a hill around 2.7 km in a straight line west of the city centre.

In high summer afternoons in Palma are hot, in August 30.9 °C on average. The highest value in the years 2011 to 2025 was 39.1 °C on 13 August 2022. So plan walks through the old town and the climb to Bellver for the morning or evening, and spend the midday hours indoors or by the water.

To see what a single month looks like in Palma, try October in Mallorca, with a calendar for every day. Every day of the year is in the weather calendar.

5Where and how Palma is measured

The climate values come from AEMET station B228 Palma, Puerto. It stands in the port at 3 m above sea level, around 2.7 km in a straight line from the city centre. The analysis uses daily values for the years 2011 to 2025. A rain day is a day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.

The station measures right on the coast. In higher districts and inland the weather can be different on the same day. The same station is behind the climate table for Mallorca.