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Spain, month by month

Where in Spain is at its best each month, and where to skip. Each verdict comes from the place's stated best season and the closures, weather warnings and festivals Tourisma has for it: in the middle of the season is a great month, its first or last month a good one; a weather warning (monsoon seas, smoke) moves a month down, a closure (a park shut, the boats stopped) moves it down to mixed at most, and a shut place is better avoided.

Spain in January

Plan January

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Córdoba, Girona & the Costa Brava, Granada, Madrid, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), Ronda, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Seville, Toledo, Valencia.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Tamborrada
  • Christmas markets and the Three Kings

Spain in February

Plan February

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Córdoba, Girona & the Costa Brava, Granada, Madrid, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), Ronda, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Seville, Toledo, Valencia.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Carnival in Cádiz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (dates shift yearly)

Spain in March

Plan March

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Girona & the Costa Brava, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Carnival in Cádiz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (dates shift yearly)
  • Las Fallas
  • Holy Week (Semana Santa) (dates shift yearly)

Spain in April

Plan April

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Bilbao, Girona & the Costa Brava, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Mallorca, Menorca, Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife.

Can fall this month

  • Holy Week (Semana Santa) (dates shift yearly)
  • April Fair (Feria de Abril) (dates shift yearly)
  • Sant Jordi

Spain in May

Plan May

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: San Sebastián.

Can fall this month

  • April Fair (Feria de Abril) (dates shift yearly)
  • Córdoba Patios Festival

Spain in June

Plan June

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Córdoba, Seville.

Can fall this month

  • Hogueras de San Juan

Spain in July

Plan July

At their best

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Cádiz, Girona & the Costa Brava, Granada, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Ronda, Salamanca, Segovia, Toledo, Valencia.

Better avoided

  • Córdoba · Summer Heat in Andalusia and Castile
  • Seville · Summer Heat in Andalusia and Castile

Can fall this month

  • San Fermín (Running of the Bulls), Pamplona

Spain in August

Plan August

At their best

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Cádiz, Girona & the Costa Brava, Granada, Ibiza, Madrid, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Ronda, Salamanca, Segovia, Toledo, Valencia.

Better avoided

  • Córdoba · Summer Heat in Andalusia and Castile
  • Seville · Summer Heat in Andalusia and Castile

Can fall this month

  • La Tomatina, Buñol

Spain in September

Plan September

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Córdoba, Seville.

Can fall this month

  • La Mercè
  • San Sebastián Film Festival

Spain in October

Plan October

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Ibiza, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela.

Spain in November

Plan November

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Girona & the Costa Brava, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Valencia.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Christmas markets and the Three Kings

Spain in December

Plan December

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Alicante & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Córdoba, Girona & the Costa Brava, Granada, Madrid, Málaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Menorca, Montserrat, Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), Ronda, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Seville, Toledo, Valencia.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Christmas markets and the Three Kings
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