Today
Has it rained enough in Alicante?
The last rain heavy enough to soak in fell over a week ago. What has fallen since wet the leaves and no more.
Alicante has had 33.4mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 41.9mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Alicante through a normal year
Across a normal year Alicante gets about 373.6mm of rain, most of it in September (47.1mm) and least in July (5.2mm).
A normal October in Alicante has rain on 9 days. Only 5 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Alicante one of the drier places this site covers in Spain in October — 13th of 14, against Vigo at the wet end (238.7mm) and Murcia at the dry end (35.6mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.