Málaga in December
Around 14 °C by day, sea 16.4 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 4.
December in Málaga is 14 °C by day and 16.4 °C in the sea. Too cold to swim: 16.4 °C against 16.8 °C in Alicante and 14.2 °C in San Sebastián. The warmest December water on the mainland is Tarifa's, 18.3 °C.
Málaga does not empty in December, nor do Barcelona, Valencia or Alicante: all four sit at 3 out of 5 for load and 5 out of 5 for winter liveability. Summer load here is 4, not much higher: the city lives on work, a university and the dozen-plus museums opened in the last twenty years, not on the beach. For anyone moving, December here is instructive: the airport, the hospitals, the commuter trains and the shops run exactly as they do in July.
Towns nearby in December
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Málaga | 14 | 16.4 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 3 283appraised |
| Torre del Mar | 14 | 16.4 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 1 581asking |
| Torrox | 14 | 16.4 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 000asking |
| Nerja | 14 | 16.4 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 450asking |
| Alhaurín de la Torre | 14 | 16.4 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 2 736appraised |
| Vélez-Málaga | 14 | 16.4 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 745appraised |
| Mijas | 14 | 16.4 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 3 339appraised |
| Manilva | 14 | 16.7 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 3 450asking |
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: 46 rainy days a year, 71% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.