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Best time to visit Porto

Portugal · 41.15°N 8.61°W · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)

The best time to visit Porto is May to September, when mean temperatures run from 15 °C59 °F to 20 °C68 °F and rainfall runs 16–88 mm0.6–3.5 in a month.

The rainy season runs October to April, and December to February is a true monsoon — 168–176 mm6.6–6.9 in a month, peaking in January at 176 mm6.9 in. July is the hottest month at 20 °C68 °F and January the coldest at 10 °C50 °F.

Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 41.15, -8.61 — a climate guide, not a forecast.

Porto weather by month

Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.

Weather you like

mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers

Good time to go for a Warm holiday: May to September.

Open Porto on the interactive map ↗ the same verdict for every place on Earth, any month

▲ Temperature mean , coldest to warmest month
10°49°JAN1766.911°51°FEB1686.612°54°MAR1285.013°55°APR1044.115°59°MAY883.518°64°JUN562.220°67°JUL160.620°67°AUG160.619°65°SEP562.216°60°OCT1285.013°55°NOV1365.411°51°DEC1766.9
▼ Rainfall per month, driest to wettest

Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.

What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Porto's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.

MonthRain Mean SeasonWarm verdict
January1766.91049monsoontoo cold
February1686.61151monsoontoo cold
March1285.01254rainytoo cold
April1044.11355rainytoo cold
May883.51559showersgood
June562.21864drygood
July160.62067drygood
August160.62067drygood
September562.21965drygood
October1285.01660rainytoo rainy
November1365.41355rainytoo cold
December1766.91151monsoontoo cold

When to go to Porto, by holiday type

Looking forRuleMonths that fit
Warmmean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showersMay to September
Tropicalmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoonno month
Beachmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showersno month
Coolmean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoonMarch to April and November
Snowmean below 0 °C32 °F, any rainno month

Is there a rainy season in Porto?

Yes. The rainy season runs October to April, and December to February is a true monsoon — 168–176 mm6.6–6.9 in a month, peaking in January at 176 mm6.9 in. Outside it, June to September is dry.

July is the hottest month at 20 °C68 °F and January the coldest at 10 °C50 °F. Annual rainfall totals about 1,248 mm49 in.

Where to go instead when Porto doesn't fit

The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Porto doesn't:

Nearby destinations

distances in — tap a unit to switch.

The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.