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Lisbon weather by month

Lisbon runs from about 12°C in December to 23°C in August, with January the wettest month at 137 mm.

warmest month

August

23°C

coolest month

December

12°C

wettest month

January

137 mm

worst air month

August

13 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Lisbon
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January13°C137 mm223 h8
February14°C81 mm237 h9
March14°C90 mm281 h10
April17°C22 mm343 h10
May18°C12 mm382 h9
June20°C47 mm362 h8
July22°C13 mm400 h9
August23°C0 mm378 h13
September21°C10 mm321 h9
October19°C112 mm271 h11
November16°C63 mm234 h9
December12°C10 mm265 h10

About 3,697 hours of sun a year. Roughly 59 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-22. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.