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The driest places in Europe in July: ranked by rainfall

Valletta tops the list at 0.5 mm in July. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in July: Valletta (0.5 mm) , Almería (0.7 mm) , La Laguna (0.7 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 25 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Valletta Malta 0.5 mm 27 °C 23 °C 0 mm 0 428 h 25 °C
2 Almería Spain 0.7 mm 32 °C 23 °C 1 mm 0 423 h 23 °C
3 La Laguna Spain 0.7 mm 21 °C 18 °C 1 mm 0 405 h 22 °C
4 Limassol Cyprus 1.0 mm 33 °C 24 °C 1 mm 0 431 h 26 °C
5 Marbella Spain 1.2 mm 28 °C 21 °C 1 mm 0 416 h 21 °C
6 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 1.4 mm 33 °C 20 °C 1 mm 0 419 h 23 °C
7 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 1.4 mm 24 °C 20 °C 1 mm 0 401 h 22 °C
8 Gibraltar Gibraltar 1.4 mm 28 °C 21 °C 1 mm 0 413 h 21 °C
9 Málaga Spain 1.4 mm 29 °C 22 °C 1 mm 0 418 h 22 °C
10 Sevilla Spain 2.0 mm 35 °C 21 °C 2 mm 0 422 h –
11 Cartagena Spain 2.2 mm 28 °C 22 °C 2 mm 0 426 h 24 °C
12 Lisbon Portugal 2.2 mm 26 °C 18 °C 2 mm 1 419 h 18 °C
13 Badajoz Spain 2.4 mm 34 °C 19 °C 2 mm 1 429 h –
14 Murcia Spain 2.4 mm 33 °C 20 °C 2 mm 1 426 h –
15 Nicosia Cyprus 2.5 mm 36 °C 24 °C 2 mm 1 431 h 27 °C
16 Córdoba Spain 2.8 mm 36 °C 22 °C 3 mm 0 425 h –
17 Elche Spain 2.9 mm 31 °C 21 °C 3 mm 1 427 h 25 °C
18 Alicante Spain 5.3 mm 29 °C 22 °C 5 mm 1 427 h 25 °C
19 Madrid Spain 5.9 mm 32 °C 19 °C 6 mm 1 433 h –
20 Ciudad Lineal Spain 6.0 mm 32 °C 18 °C 6 mm 1 433 h –
21 Palma Spain 6.0 mm 30 °C 22 °C 6 mm 1 427 h 25 °C
22 Albacete Spain 6.5 mm 33 °C 18 °C 6 mm 2 424 h –
23 Palermo Italy 6.5 mm 30 °C 22 °C 7 mm 2 427 h 26 °C
24 Athens Greece 7.0 mm 33 °C 22 °C 7 mm 2 419 h 25 °C
25 Granada Spain 7.0 mm 33 °C 20 °C 7 mm 2 424 h –
26 Alcalá de Henares Spain 7.5 mm 32 °C 18 °C 7 mm 2 430 h –
27 Castelló de la Plana Spain 8.1 mm 28 °C 21 °C 8 mm 1 422 h 25 °C
28 Valencia Spain 8.4 mm 30 °C 21 °C 8 mm 2 423 h 25 °C
29 Catania Italy 8.5 mm 32 °C 22 °C 8 mm 2 428 h 25 °C
30 Taranto Italy 12 mm 31 °C 22 °C 12 mm 2 427 h 25 °C
31 Pátra Greece 13 mm 31 °C 21 °C 13 mm 3 421 h 25 °C
32 Zaragoza Spain 14 mm 33 °C 19 °C 14 mm 3 423 h –
33 Marseille France 14 mm 28 °C 20 °C 14 mm 2 432 h 21 °C
34 Toulon France 16 mm 28 °C 20 °C 16 mm 3 434 h 22 °C
35 Astrakhan Russia 16 mm 32 °C 21 °C 16 mm 3 403 h –
36 Valladolid Spain 16 mm 30 °C 15 °C 16 mm 3 430 h –
37 Montpellier France 16 mm 28 °C 19 °C 16 mm 3 421 h 21 °C
38 Messina Italy 19 mm 29 °C 22 °C 19 mm 4 428 h 26 °C
39 Naples Italy 19 mm 29 °C 21 °C 19 mm 4 422 h 25 °C
40 Sevastopol Ukraine 21 mm 26 °C 20 °C 21 mm 4 425 h 23 °C
41 Porto Portugal 22 mm 25 °C 17 °C 22 mm 4 421 h 17 °C
42 Rome Italy 22 mm 30 °C 19 °C 22 mm 4 424 h –
43 Burgos Spain 23 mm 26 °C 13 °C 23 mm 4 418 h –
44 Reggio Calabria Italy 23 mm 30 °C 21 °C 23 mm 4 427 h 25 °C
45 Barcelona Spain 24 mm 27 °C 20 °C 24 mm 4 415 h 24 °C
46 Badalona Spain 24 mm 28 °C 20 °C 24 mm 4 415 h 24 °C
47 Livorno Italy 24 mm 27 °C 21 °C 24 mm 3 433 h 24 °C
48 Skopje North Macedonia 25 mm 31 °C 18 °C 25 mm 5 413 h –
49 Bari Italy 25 mm 29 °C 22 °C 25 mm 4 424 h 25 °C
50 Logroño Spain 25 mm 26 °C 15 °C 25 mm 5 392 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

June: top 5

  1. Valletta 2.4 mm
  2. Limassol 2.6 mm
  3. La Laguna 2.9 mm
  4. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 3.4 mm
  5. Almería 4.0 mm

Full ranking for June

August: top 5

  1. Limassol 1.4 mm
  2. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2.3 mm
  3. Sevilla 2.4 mm
  4. Nicosia 3.1 mm
  5. Jerez de la Frontera 3.1 mm

Full ranking for August

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, in July, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.