Today
Has it rained enough in Valladolid?
The last rain heavy enough to soak in fell over a week ago. What has fallen since wet the leaves and no more.
Valladolid has had 18.8mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 58.1mm, so that is about 32% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 10.2mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Valladolid through a normal year
Across a normal year Valladolid gets about 466.7mm of rain, most of it in October (58.1mm) and least in August (12.3mm).
A normal October in Valladolid has rain on 11 days. Only 7 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Valladolid one of the wetter places this site covers in Spain in October — 7th 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.