Climate Gibraltar Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Gibraltar Airport (LXGB) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	88.4	82	87	86	78	92
February	83.0	82	73	91	70	80
March	83.8	77	91	80	80	86
April	85.9		95	92	69	78
May	93.7		90	97	87	95
June	94.8		92	99	92	96
July	90.3		94	89	89	88
August	88.8		86	92	89	94
September	88.3		92	95	88	89
October	86.3		83	85	87	89
November	86.6		86	87	91	78
December	82.8		90	57	80	89
Average	87.2	79.7	88.7	88.8	83.7	88.1

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VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	98.1	96	100	99	92	100
February	98.7	96	99	100	99	98
March	97.6	95	99	98	97	98
April	98.2		99	98	97	98
May	98.5		96	99	97	100
June	97.8		98	100	97	99
July	97.4		99	96	97	98
August	96.1		91	99	96	96
September	97.6		100	98	96	98
October	98.3		99	97	100	99
November	98.0		97	99	99	95
December	96.8		96	94	93	100
Average	97.5	95.5	97.5	98.1	96.6	98.1

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	16.2	18	16	16	15	16
February	16.9	18	16	17	17	18
March	18.2	18	20	17	18	18
April	19.6		22	19	20	19
May	22.7		24	23	23	24
June	25.3		26	26	25	26
July	27.6		30	27	27	28
August	28.0		29	28	28	29
September	25.8		26	26	26	26
October	22.6		23	23	23	22
November	19.3		20	21	18	19
December	17.3		18	18	17	17
Average	21.2	18.0	22.5	22.0	21.3	21.6

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Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	11.6	13	12	13	11	11
February	12.6	14	12	13	13	14
March	13.0	13	14	13	13	13
April	14.7		16	14	15	15
May	16.9		17	17	17	17
June	19.1		20	20	19	19
July	21.0		23	21	20	22
August	21.3		22	19	21	22
September	20.5		21	20	20	21
October	17.9		19	18	19	16
November	14.4		15	16	13	16
December	12.9		12	15	13	12
Average	15.9	13.1	16.9	16.4	16.2	16.5

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Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	10.2	12	16	7	21	7
February	9.2	17	11	4	13	2
March	15.4	30	5	19	13	12
April	8.9		0	12	16	10
May	3.8		10	4	4	5
June	1.3		5	0	1	2
July	0.0		0	0	0	0
August	0.5		0	1	1	0
September	3.4		3	3	8	1
October	6.8		16	2	3	7
November	10.4		8	6	12	12
December	12.2		10	42	11	13
Average	7.8	20.3	6.4	6.8	7.9	5.6

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	10.9	11	11	15	11	8
February	12.4	12	16	12	13	11
March	11.5	11	9	11	11	11
April	11.3		10	11	11	11
May	9.5		8	9	10	10
June	9.7		9	10	10	10
July	9.2		8	9	10	9
August	8.9		8	9	8	9
September	8.9		9	9	8	9
October	9.2		9	7	10	9
November	9.8		9	9	11	10
December	10.6		9	10	13	10
Average	10.2	10.9	9.5	10.0	10.2	9.7

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Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	109°	274°	089°	258°	110°
February	250°	084°	099°	142°	092°
March	243°	223°	136°	105°	203°
April		120°	213°	117°	105°
May		149°	138°	147°	120°
June		132°	227°	207°	237°
July		198°	113°	187°	103°
August		117°	135°	149°	174°
September		117°	218°	139°	101°
October		120°	083°	083°	234°
November		251°	257°	255°	090°
December		278°	221°	214°	265°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.