Today
Has it rained enough in Barcelona?
The last rain heavy enough to soak in fell over a week ago. What has fallen since wet the leaves and no more.
Barcelona has had 172mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 89.4mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (282.5mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Barcelona through a normal year
Across a normal year Barcelona gets about 588.4mm of rain, most of it in October (89.4mm) and least in July (23.6mm).
A normal October in Barcelona has rain on 13 days. Only 8 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Barcelona one of the wetter places this site covers in Spain in October — 4th 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 basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.