Today
Has it rained enough in Vigo?
Rain soaked properly in 5 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Vigo has had 17.9mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 238.7mm, so that is about 7% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 2.6mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Vigo through a normal year
Across a normal year Vigo gets about 1736.8mm of rain, most of it in October (238.7mm) and least in July (37.8mm).
A normal October in Vigo has rain on 16 days. Only 13 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Vigo the wettest place this site covers in Spain in October — 238.7mm against Murcia's 35.6mm at the other end.
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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.