Best Time to Visit Marbella

General & Geography

Marbella is a large city on Spain’s Costa del Sol and also enjoys great popularity as a holiday destination due to its fantastic climate. Marbella has about 150,000 permanent inhabitants, of whom about 30% come from abroad (mainly Great Britain).

The city belongs to the autonomous region of Andalusia, one of the sunniest regions in Europe. Marbella has a very worth seeing old town, the beautifully designed promenade Paseo Maritimo as well as sophisticated marinas like the marina of Puerto Banus.

Marbella is generally reached via Malaga airport, which is about 28 miles away and about 35 minutes away via the A-7 toll motorway. Numerous airlines, including Lufthansa, fly directly to Malaga.

Those who do not need a rental car after landing and do not book a package tour with transfer can also reach Marbella from Aeroporto de Málaga inexpensively and comfortably by public bus.

Popular destinations near Marbella are the historic village of Ronda (with the impressive Punte Nuevo bridge over the gorge), the British territory of Gibraltar with its monkey rock and the cities of Seville and Grenada, around three hours away by car.

Climate in Marbella (Costa del Sol)

The Costa del Sol of Andalusia is a sun-drenched region with little rainfall and subtropical Mediterranean climate. This also applies to Marbella, which offers an ideal mixture of dry sunny summer months and pleasantly mild winter months.

Marbella has an average of more than 315 sunny days a year and thus truly lives up to the name of the “sunny coast”. Already in March the thermometer often scratches at 20 °C during the day, from May the long summer is rung in and even in October usually still pleasant bathing weather prevails.

The water temperatures usually reach 20 °C at the beginning of June and peak between July and October. Most rainfall occurs between November and February, but even the wettest months rarely have more than five rainy days with occasional showers.

The summer on Marbella lures with hot temperatures and up to 12 hours of sunshine per day, there is almost never rain at this travel time. In the evening the values go down to a pleasant 18 °C to 20 °C, so that it is also wonderful to sit outside.