{"id":16426,"date":"2014-11-14T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=16426"},"modified":"2019-01-22T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:29:02","slug":"when-is-best-to-visit-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/when-is-best-to-visit-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"When to visit Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Photo illustration:\u00a0thehammockhombre.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spain is a large country and therefore the weather can vary greatly depending on which region you head for and when. Barcelona, being in the north of the country has cooler winters but also doesn\u2019t get quite so hot in July, August and September. I mean, it still gets interminably hot during this period, but you are more likely to live through the experience than if you were in, say, Seville, whose temperatures are akin to that of Hell on a hot day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/when-is-best-to-visit-barcelona\/#When_you_should_start_travelling\" title=\"When you should start travelling\">When you should start travelling<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/when-is-best-to-visit-barcelona\/#Choosing_the_right_time\" title=\"Choosing the right time\">Choosing the right time<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_you_should_start_travelling\"><\/span>When you should start travelling<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a general guide, unless your plan is to do nothing other than lie basting in a variety of suntan oils for extended periods of time and drinking cold beer on the beach \u2013 a pastime I\u2019m not in any way knocking &#8211; then the best times to visit Barcelona are Spring and Autumn when not only are the temperatures more manageable but you will have to share space with substantially less tourists. Let\u2019s face it, even though we are tourists ourselves, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that we want to hang out with other people doing the same. Spain puts up with well over thirty million tourists every year and most of those thirty million arrive during June, July, August and September. So the more sensible option is Spring and Autumn.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Choosing_the_right_time\"><\/span>Choosing the right time<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">August is a very bad time to visit Spain&#8217;s coasts\u00a0as this is the hottest month of the year and also the month when Spaniards declare Barcelona unliveable and themselves head for the beaches. Cities during August are often quiet and many shops will close down for part of or in most cases the entire month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the end of September through to November days Barcelona can still experience what would be considered hot days in cooler countries. Once the sun comes out it is still quite normal to find people unclad on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/best-beaches-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the beaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christmas in Barcelona can be very pleasant, generally mild, often sunny and the entire doesn\u2019t completely close down, like they do in the UK and other parts of Europe. This is also a great time to head to Barcelona. It very rarely snows but when it does, expect high spirits from the locals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So depending on what you are after, a suntan akin to 40 degree burns or sitting on the terraces during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas<\/a> enjoying a hot chocolate, every season has its advantages and disadvantages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The average temperatures in Barcelona are as follows:<br \/>\nJanuary max \u2013 13\u00baC<br \/>\nMarch max \u2013 16\u00baC<br \/>\nMay max \u2013 21\u00baC<br \/>\nJuly max \u2013 28\u00baC<br \/>\nSeptember max \u2013 25\u00baC<br \/>\nNovember max \u2013 16\u00baC<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"\n    class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-valign-bottom kksr-align-left \"\n    data-id=\"16426\"\n    data-slug=\"\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 150px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-legend\">\n            <strong class=\"kksr-score\">5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\/<\/span>\n        <strong>5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">(<\/span>\n        <strong class=\"kksr-count\">1<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\n            vote        <\/span>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo illustration:\u00a0thehammockhombre.com Spain is a large country and therefore the weather can vary greatly depending on which region you head for and when. Barcelona, being in the north of the country has cooler winters but also doesn\u2019t get quite so hot in July, August and September. I mean, it still gets interminably hot during this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":16427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4595],"tags":[1327,998,712,1326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16426"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97643,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426\/revisions\/97643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}