Winter has been very dry in the Pitiusas. This is indicated by statistics provided Tuesday by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). In Ibiza, the normal values for the whole winter are 135 liters per square meter (l/m²) and this winter only 29 l/m² have fallen. In Formentera, the normal is 91 l/m² and only 35 l/m² have been reached.
In Ibiza, the driest month was december with 5 l/m²followed by January with a rainfall of 12.5 l/m². In Formentera, the driest month was december with 2 l/m²followed by January with a precipitation of 18.6 l/m².
At the airport, one of the data collection points that Aemet has on the island of Ibiza, the winter has been the second driest since records began in 1953with a precipitation of 25 l/m². The first driest was the winter of 2022, during which 23.6 l/m² was collected.
To date, the first decade of March is considered warm and humid: in Ibiza it has rained 19 l/m² and in Formentera 15 l/m².
Beach day in Ibiza in the middle of Christmas, in this case in ses Salines / Marcelo Sastre
As for rainfall, a normal amount is estimated for the reference period 1991-2020. This average rainfall is usually of 65 l/m² in Ibiza and 44 l/m² in Formentera during the quarter from April to June.
how was the winter of 2023-2024 in Ibiza and Formentera?
The winter has been very warm with an average temperature of 12.7ºC in Ibiza and 14ºC in Formentera and an anomaly with respect to normal values of 1.7ºC and 1.3ºC, respectively. Maximum temperatures have been above normal almost every day, with the exception of the cold period that was recorded twice in January.
The warmest month was February with an average temperature of 13ºC and an anomaly of 2.2ºC, followed by January with 12.7ºC and 2ºC anomaly. The least warm month was December with 12.6ºC and 0.8ºC anomaly.
All months have been warm or very warm
The highest temperatures of the quarter reached 26.7ºC in Sant Joan de Labritja. With these figures, it becomes the warmest winter since there are records (1993), with record high temperatures and only one day of frost, when it is normal to have nine. In Formentera it reached 21.4ºC.
The highest minimum temperatures were 17.2ºC in Ibiza on January 15 and 15.8ºC in Formentera on January 16. The lowest temperatures were 0.5ºC in Sant Joan de Labritja and 4.8ºC in Formentera, on January 8.