Climate Change Chart of Benidorm, Spain

Overview of climate changes

Temperature changes

Across the comparison, monthly mean temperature shows a difference of +0.98 °C averaged across calendar months; this is an unweighted mean of monthly means, not a day-weighted annual average or a measure of daytime maximum temperatures. The largest monthly increase occurred in December, with a difference of +1.94 °C. That identifies the strongest increase among the reported monthly changes, rather than implying the same change in every month or a continuous trend between the reference periods.

Changes in rainfall

Mean daily rainfall has a difference of -0.33 mm/day averaged across calendar months, an unweighted summary of monthly means rather than a comparison of monthly rainfall totals. The monthly pattern is not uniform: March records the largest increase, with a difference of +0.94 mm/day, while December records the largest decrease, with a difference of -1.58 mm/day. These daily-mean differences describe the contrast between the reference periods; they do not show that rainfall changed by the same amount on every day or in every month.

Changes in sunshine duration

Mean daily sunshine duration has a difference of -0.19 hours/day averaged across calendar months; this unweighted summary of monthly means is not a day-weighted annual average. The monthly contrasts go in both directions: the largest increase is in January, at a difference of +0.47 hours/day, whereas the largest decrease is in March, at a difference of -0.69 hours/day. These selected months illustrate variation in the period comparison, not a uniform change throughout the year.

Changes in snowfall

Mean daily snowfall has a difference of -0.03 mm/day averaged across calendar months, based on an unweighted mean of monthly means rather than monthly totals. The largest reported monthly decrease occurred in February, with a difference of -0.16 mm/day. These figures describe recorded snowfall differences between the reference periods; the small mean difference does not establish that snowfall was absent or unchanged in every month.