Today
Has it rained enough in Gijón?
The last rain heavy enough to soak in fell over a week ago. What has fallen since wet the leaves and no more.
Gijón has had 121.2mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 112.6mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
5 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Gijón through a normal year
Across a normal year Gijón gets about 1211mm of rain, most of it in November (154mm) and least in July (61mm).
A normal October in Gijón has rain on 17 days. Only 12 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Gijón one of the wetter places this site covers in Spain in October — 2nd 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.