Today
Has it rained enough in Palma?
Rain soaked properly in 10 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Palma has had 62.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 53.3mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Thirty years
Rain in Palma through a normal year
Across a normal year Palma gets about 419.8mm of rain, most of it in November (59.2mm) and least in July (6.6mm).
A normal October in Palma has rain on 11 days. Only 6 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Palma one of the drier places this site covers in Spain in October — 9th 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.