Granada in December
Around 7.6 °C by day, sea 16.4 °C. Too cold to swim. As busy as the peak.
December in Granada is 7.6 °C by day. Load is 4 out of 5: the city fills up again for Christmas.
December opens the ski season in the Sierra Nevada, at a resort half an hour up the road, and at weekends half of Granada goes there. Hence the local line about skiing in the morning and the sea in the afternoon: the Costa Tropical is 60 km away, and the water there is 16.4 °C now. Testing that combination in winter is fun; living here means 7.6 °C by day in December, with heating as a necessity rather than a luxury.
Towns nearby in December
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granada | 7.6 | 16.4 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 2 415 |
| Salobreña | 14.5 | 16.4 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 235 |
| Almuñécar | 14.5 | 16.4 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 3 162 |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 estimate: are places open, does transport run, is anyone about between November and March. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 52 rainy days a year, 65% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.