Weather in May

Frans

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Camino Mozarabe de Almeria a Santiago

• Oct 29, 2017

• #1

Hi there
Next year May my son and I want to walk the Camino del Salvador. Can someone tell us what kind of weather we can expect from the 5th of May?

 

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Kanga

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• Oct 30, 2017

• #2

Hi Frans,

As you have already walked six different routes, you know that the weather is unpredictable. The Salvador is a mountain route so that makes it more so. This site will give you "typical" weather for a particular date or month, anywhere on earth - https://weatherspark.com

Try Oviedo and see what comes up.

 

Frans

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• Oct 30, 2017

• #3

Yes even after 6 caminos I know the weather is unpredictable but because it is a mountain route maybe people know until what month it is not possible to walk because of snow.

 

Peter Fransiscus

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• Jan 27, 2018

• #4

When walking the mountains the weather can change in a split second.
The higher you go the higher the chance of snow. In the Austrian Alpes anyway but I don't know about the Salvador.

 

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Momonne

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• Jan 27, 2018

• #5

When i walked the Primtivo in May of 2016, temps were glorious, low 20s or so. I walked with someone wh had just come off the Salvador amd he had still had patches of snow on the ground.

 

Tia Valeria

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• Jan 27, 2018

• #6

Frans said:

Yes even after 6 caminos I know the weather is unpredictable but because it is a mountain route maybe people know until what month it is not possible to walk because of snow.

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Some years the weather in May is lovely. One year at least that we remember (2013?) there was snow until mid-May which affected the mountain areas around the Caminos.
The only way is to check the weather forecasts nearer the time.

 

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Momonne

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• Jan 27, 2018

• #7

Tia Valeria said:

Some years the weather in May is lovely. One year at least that we remember (2013?) there was snow until mid-May which affected the mountain areas around the Caminos.
The only way is to check the weather forecasts nearer the time.

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Yup, 2013. Record cold temps in Spain that year in May. It was miserable. Had to buy sleeping bag and gloves in Burgos. Until that year I had been happy with only a liner on the Frances. Never again.