Costa Brava in October
Around 18 °C by day, sea 21.1 °C. Warm enough to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 5.
October on the Costa Brava is 18 °C by day and 21.1 °C in the sea. Swimming is still possible, but the season is over: load has fallen from August's 5 to 3 out of 5.
On the Costa Brava neighbouring towns live very differently. Lloret de Mar holds a winter score of 2 out of 5 with 38.5% foreign residents: a resort that empties for the winter. Girona, forty minutes away, is a city of 108,352 scoring 5 out of 5, with a university and a hospital 5 minutes off — and it is not on the shore at all. Blanes sits between them: 4 out of 5 and a square metre at €2,223. October is the month when you can see that spread in a day's drive; in August you cannot see it at all.
Towns nearby in October
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blanes | 18 | 21.1 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 2 223appraised |
| Girona | 17 | 20.1 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 295appraised |
| Lloret de Mar | 18 | 21.1 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2 393appraised |
| Roses | 18 | 19 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 3 489asking |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 58 rainy days a year, 71% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.