Segovia month by month — at a glance
1988–2010 averages from the Segovia station (AEMET, 1,008 m). Hover each month for the summary.
Almost every guide treats Segovia as an extension of Madrid: twenty-seven minutes by train and an afternoon's visit. On that logic, the month is irrelevant. But Segovia sits six hundred metres higher than Madrid, and those six hundred metres make the calendar work differently here.
01 A thousand metres explain almost everything
Segovia's weather station stands at 1,008 metres. At that height the air holds little heat: as soon as the sun drops, the temperature falls fast, and as soon as it rises, it climbs just as quickly. It is the climatic signature of the whole northern meseta, and in Segovia it shows more than in the cities of the Duero valley.
The annual mean is 12.4 °C, with an average high of 17.9 °C and an average low of 6.9 °C. That eleven-degree gap between the two curves is the figure worth taking away: in Segovia you do not travel to one temperature, you travel to two.
Key moments at a glance
24.0 °C high, 11.4 °C low and just 28 mm of rain.
18.0 °C high and 59 mm: the valley turns, but bring a raincoat.
29.7 °C average high; in exchange, nights settle at 14.6 °C.
Average low of 0.3 °C and high of 8.2 °C: the day never warms up.
02 Summer splits the day in two
In July and August the old town becomes impassable between one and six. The centre is granite and limestone, with barely any tree cover, and it gives back the stored heat for hours. Anyone arriving on the midday train meets the worst possible version of the place.
The same city at nine in the evening is under twenty degrees and fills up. That is when the axis between the aqueduct and the Alcázar makes sense: you walk without shade because you no longer need it. If you come in summer, the mistake is not the month, it is the hour.
03 May is green because it rains
May has a reputation as the perfect month in central Spain, and in Segovia it is, in temperature terms: an average high of 19.7 °C and a low of 8.2 °C. What is almost never said is that it is also the wettest month of the year, with 66 mm out of an annual 479 mm. One in every seven millimetres of the year's rain falls in May.
That does not rule it out: it explains why the Eresma valley is at its best then, and why the fountains in the gardens of La Granja, ten kilometres away, depend on this water. In recent seasons they have run on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 5.30 p.m. and on Sundays at noon, with special days on 30 May, 25 July and 25 August. Check the current year's calendar before building an afternoon around it.
May also has a reason of its own: Titirimundi, the international puppet theatre festival, takes over the city's theatres, courtyards and streets. In 2026 it held its fortieth edition from 12 to 17 May, with more than two hundred performances across twenty-five venues in Segovia.
04 The window almost nobody uses
September is, by the numbers, the best month of the year in Segovia: an average high of 24.0 °C, a low of 11.4 °C and 28 mm of rain. The heat no longer forces you indoors at midday, and the night still allows being outside without a coat. It is the only combination in the calendar where both halves of the day work.
In September you do not have to choose between morning and night. It is the only month when Segovia delivers both.
Added to that window is the Hay Festival, which in 2026 held its twenty-first edition from 10 to 13 September in the convent of Santa Cruz la Real and the palace of the Counts of Mansilla. It is the week of the year when the city has a programme of its own and stops working as an annexe of Madrid.
October drops to an 18.0 °C high and rises to 59 mm of rain, the second wettest month. In exchange it offers the valley's woodland in colour and a city with almost no queues anywhere. It is the month for anyone who prefers landscape to comfort.
05 Winter gives the city back
From December to February, Segovia is uncomfortable and honest. January's average high is 8.2 °C and its low 0.3 °C: it frosts before dawn on a regular basis, and the stone is unforgiving. But the daily swing narrows to under eight degrees, so the whole day is one single thing, cold and steady.
The answer, then, is not a month: it is a couple of hours. Segovia is best understood first thing and last thing, and the calendar only decides how many of those hours it will hand you. September gives both; July, only the last one; January, neither, but in exchange it leaves you the whole city.
