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Has the climate in Marbella changed?

Marbella has warmed about 3.7°F since 1971.

About 0.7°F per decade, measured from Marbella's official daily weather records, 1971–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Marbella's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Spain — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+2.4°F
1970s
63.6°F
Recent
66.0°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
16 more days
1970s
19 / yr
Recent
35 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
3 fewer days
1970s
55 / yr
Recent
52 / yr
Drier on average

Marbella's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2025.

61°63°65°67°69°1971: 63.4°F1972: 62.6°F1973: 62.6°F1974: 63.0°F1975: 63.0°F1976: 62.6°F1977: 63.6°F1978: 63.5°F1979: 63.7°F1980: 63.6°F1981: 63.9°F1982: 63.7°F1983: 64.5°F1984: 63.3°F1985: 64.1°F1986: 64.0°F1987: 64.8°F1988: 64.7°F1989: 65.3°F1990: 65.2°F1991: 63.5°F1992: 64.0°F1993: 63.1°F1994: 64.9°F1995: 66.0°F1996: 63.9°F1997: 65.4°F1998: 64.7°F1999: 63.7°F2000: 62.5°F2001: 64.1°F2002: 67.0°F2003: 65.8°F2004: 65.4°F2005: 66.0°F2006: 67.1°F2007: 65.9°F2008: 65.8°F2009: 66.1°F2010: 65.5°F2011: 66.0°F2012: 64.7°F2013: 64.6°F2014: 65.1°F2015: 66.9°F2016: 65.8°F2017: 65.4°F2018: 65.3°F2019: 66.4°F2020: 66.1°F2021: 66.4°F2022: 67.0°F2023: 66.9°F2024: 66.4°F2025: 66.9°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 8 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°+2.5°January: +1.1°F+1.1JFebruary: +0.7°F+0.7FMarch: +1.4°F+1.4MApril: +2.2°F+2.2AMay: +2.1°F+2.1MJune: +2.4°F+2.4JJuly: +2.3°F+2.3JAugust: +2.4°F+2.4ASeptember: +1.4°F+1.4SOctober: +1.6°F+1.6ONovember: +0.8°F+0.8NDecember: +0.9°F+0.9D

June has warmed the most — about 2.4°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Malaga Aeropuerto, a weather station, about 39 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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