Spring Weather at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport Spain

Daily high temperatures increase by 20°F, from 58°F to 78°F, rarely falling below 48°F or exceeding 89°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 17°F, from 37°F to 54°F, rarely falling below 28°F or exceeding 60°F.

For reference, on July 30, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport typically range from 64°F to 92°F, while on January 15, the coldest day of the year, they range from 33°F to 51°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average spring temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

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The spring at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport experiences gradually decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 44% to 37%.

The clearest day of the spring is May 30, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 63% of the time.

For reference, on December 15, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 52%, while on July 20, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 88%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of the spring is gradually increasing, starting the season at 15% and ending it at 17%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 24% on October 31, and its lowest chance is 5% on July 18.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the spring at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is gradually increasing, starting the season at 0.8 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.8 inches or falls below 0.1 inches, and ending the season at 1.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 2.5 inches or falls below 0.2 inches.

The highest average 31-day accumulation is 1.4 inches on May 10.

Over the course of the spring at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 3 hours, 33 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 21 seconds, and weekly increase of 16 minutes, 24 seconds.

The shortest day of the spring is March 1, with 11 hours, 19 minutes of daylight and the longest day is May 31, with 14 hours, 52 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the spring at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is 7:59 AM on March 31 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 13 minutes earlier at 6:46 AM on May 31.

The earliest sunset is 7:06 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 2 hours, 32 minutes later at 9:38 PM on May 31.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 3:00 AM on March 31, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:43 AM and sets 15 hours, 4 minutes later, at 9:48 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 8:34 AM and sets 9 hours, 17 minutes later, at 5:50 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the spring of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is essentially constant during the spring, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 24, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on October 16, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is gradually decreasing during the spring, decreasing from 8.2 miles per hour to 7.5 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on April 4, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.8 miles per hour, while on September 15, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 7.1 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during the spring is 8.8 miles per hour on April 5.

The wind direction at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport during the spring is predominantly out of the north from March 1 to April 5 and from April 14 to April 27 and the west from April 5 to April 14 and from April 27 to May 31.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport typically lasts for 7.5 months (231 days), from around March 27 to around November 13, rarely starting before February 27 or after April 21, and rarely ending before October 24 or after December 6.

During the spring at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the chance that a given day is within the growing season is very rapidly increasing rising from 12% to 100% over the course of the season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport are rapidly increasing during the spring, increasing by 687°F, from 61°F to 749°F, over the course of the season.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 3.5 kWh, from 4.1 kWh to 7.6 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport are 40.492 deg latitude, -3.569 deg longitude, and 1,998 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 354 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 1,974 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (814 feet). Within 50 miles contains significant variations in elevation (6,555 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is covered by artificial surfaces (80%), within 10 miles by artificial surfaces (45%) and cropland (38%), and within 50 miles by cropland (48%) and trees (21%).