The driest places in Europe in September

Limassol tops the list at 3.2 mm in September. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Rainfall
1 Limassol Cyprus 3.2 mm 30 °C 3 mm
2 Nicosia Cyprus 11 mm 32 °C 11 mm
3 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 12 mm 25 °C 12 mm
4 La Laguna Spain 14 mm 22 °C 14 mm
5 Astrakhan Russia 15 mm 24 °C 15 mm
6 Almería Spain 17 mm 28 °C 17 mm
7 Athens Greece 17 mm 28 °C 17 mm
8 Madrid Spain 21 mm 26 °C 21 mm
9 Ciudad Lineal Spain 22 mm 26 °C 22 mm
10 Orsk Russia 22 mm 19 °C 22 mm
11 Badajoz Spain 24 mm 29 °C 24 mm
12 Málaga Spain 25 mm 26 °C 25 mm
13 Zaragoza Spain 27 mm 27 °C 27 mm
14 Sevilla Spain 27 mm 30 °C 27 mm
15 Alcalá de Henares Spain 27 mm 27 °C 27 mm
16 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 27 mm 29 °C 27 mm
17 Córdoba Spain 29 mm 30 °C 29 mm
18 Lisbon Portugal 29 mm 25 °C 29 mm
19 Valladolid Spain 30 mm 25 °C 30 mm
20 Orenburg Russia 30 mm 19 °C 30 mm
21 Rubtsovsk Russia 31 mm 18 °C 31 mm
22 Marbella Spain 31 mm 25 °C 31 mm
23 Volgograd Russia 32 mm 22 °C 32 mm
24 Magnitogorsk Russia 33 mm 16 °C 33 mm
25 Omsk Russia 33 mm 15 °C 33 mm
26 Logroño Spain 33 mm 23 °C 33 mm
27 Simferopol Ukraine 33 mm 23 °C 33 mm
28 Mariupol Ukraine 33 mm 21 °C 33 mm
29 Skopje North Macedonia 33 mm 26 °C 33 mm
30 Valletta Malta 34 mm 26 °C 34 mm
31 Granada Spain 34 mm 28 °C 34 mm
32 Volgodonsk Russia 34 mm 22 °C 34 mm
33 Sevastopol Ukraine 35 mm 22 °C 35 mm
34 Albacete Spain 35 mm 26 °C 35 mm
35 Sofia Bulgaria 36 mm 22 °C 36 mm
36 Niš Serbia 36 mm 24 °C 36 mm
37 Elche Spain 36 mm 28 °C 36 mm
38 Gibraltar Gibraltar 36 mm 25 °C 36 mm
39 Rostov-on-Don Russia 37 mm 22 °C 37 mm
40 Yakutsk Russia 37 mm 11 °C 37 mm
41 Shakhty Russia 38 mm 22 °C 38 mm
42 Cartagena Spain 38 mm 26 °C 38 mm
43 Odesa Ukraine 39 mm 21 °C 39 mm
44 Taganrog Russia 39 mm 21 °C 39 mm
45 Luhansk Ukraine 39 mm 21 °C 39 mm
46 Burgos Spain 39 mm 22 °C 39 mm
47 Galaţi Romania 40 mm 23 °C 40 mm
48 Donetsk Ukraine 41 mm 21 °C 41 mm
49 Tiraspol Moldova 42 mm 22 °C 42 mm
50 Mykolayiv Ukraine 42 mm 22 °C 42 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

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.