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Late April 2019......two days later I'm walking in short sleeves.Another weather question… if you’ve walked the Francis in mid April through May, did you experience all kinds of weather? How cold did it get, how hot did it get how much rain fell?!!!
Also, I’m interested in knowing your start date to see when the albergues opened the year that you went.
thanks very much!!!
The links in your post are both to Thermolite reactor fleece liner - so not sure if you are only intending to take that, or if you have something else as well. I'd take a liner plus a sleeping bag or quilt. It gets cold in April. If you sleep hot then make sure you have something that can be opened out.Another question:
I'm planning on starting April 18, G-d willing, CF, staying mostly in albergues. I know that weather can be variable and I won't know what's what until I get there. Will I need a sleeping bag or will a fleece sleep sack suffice along with a good ole hostel sleep sheet liner? I sleep hot and I hear even unheated rooms heat up from body heat.
(And yes, I've looked at other threads. I just need a bit of hand-holding so please humor me.)
Thanks in advance.
I have a picture of my walking companion and she is wearing everything she had in her backpack(Leon- May 2017). This only lasted a day. And once in Sahagun(Sept 2015) I had to buy a fleece jacket (oversized but didn't care). I wore that for awhile. Other than those improvisations, all was fairly temperate.Another weather question… if you’ve walked the Francis in mid April through May, did you experience all kinds of weather? How cold did it get, how hot did it get how much rain fell?!!!
Also, I’m interested in knowing your start date to see when the albergues opened the year that you went.
thanks very much!!!
Another question:
I'm planning on starting April 18, G-d willing, CF, staying mostly in albergues. I know that weather can be variable and I won't know what's what until I get there. Will I need a sleeping bag or will a fleece sleep sack suffice along with a good ole hostel sleep sheet liner? I sleep hot and I hear even unheated rooms heat up from body heat.
(And yes, I've looked at other threads. I just need a bit of hand-holding so please humor me.)
Thanks in advance.
(ETA: removed sleep sheet liner link [which was supposed to be to a non-fleece liner], sigh. Thanks, Kanga
Forgive me, I know weather changes daily and yearly, but we are debating when to start next spring. We will be leaving from Leon. Most responses to the original post were for weather at that time starting in SJPP. Any thoughts on weather for starting in Leon - my daughter wants to leave April 16. I would like to leave at least a week later. Even early May would be preferable to me but she has a work concern. If we leave earlier will we have to carry more clothes and sleeping gear? When we did the Camino in September 2019 I carried a silk liner and small down quilt. And FYI, not fond of the cold.Another weather question… if you’ve walked the Francis in mid April through May, did you experience all kinds of weather? How cold did it get, how hot did it get how much rain fell?!!!
Also, I’m interested in knowing your start date to see when the albergues opened the year that you went.
thanks very much!!!
Thats pretty perfect description. One year I walked the Meseta in October and it was 90+ F and baking without a cloud in the sky. 3 years later at almost the exact same time it was 45-55 F with high and I mean high winds and driving rain in my face every day.Snow at Cebreiro and Manjarin 2012 & 2014. Snow in Leon one year, can’t remember which. Cold, horizontal rain on the meseta most years. Hot sun on the meseta the years it wasn’t raining. Hot sun & heavy rain in Rioja most years - makes the clay extra sticky. Navara has usually been drier but the clay has been stickier.
so long as you’ve packed wisely the weather shouldn’t really be a problem. It just adds to the memories. You need waterproofs and layers - oh, and maybe something to scrape the clay off your boots which can generally be abandoned when you get to Burgos. Though you may later think that you should have saved it for the cow pats of Galicia
Amen!The weather forecast especially with the lunacy that climate change is bringing - WHO KNOWS!!!!!!
up until Mid April we had snow, high winds, mist, hard rain and perfect weather.? It truly is a mixed bagged and every given day is different. Another weather question… if you’ve walked the Francis in mid April through May, did you experience all kinds of weather? How cold did it get, how hot did it get how much rain fell?!!!
Also, I’m interested in knowing your start date to see when the albergues opened the year that you went.
thanks very much!!!
I always walk the Camino during April and May. You cannot even guess what weather you will have. On my first Camino it rained a total of three days and the weather was warm and pleasant. On my last Camino it rained every day for the first 2 weeks causing flooding. It rained off and on until I completed the Camino. The weather was cold and there was high winds during some rain periods.Another weather question… if you’ve walked the Francis in mid April through May, did you experience all kinds of weather? How cold did it get, how hot did it get how much rain fell?!!!
Also, I’m interested in knowing your start date to see when the albergues opened the year that you went.
thanks very much!!!
I was cold every night until mid-May but I’m cold at night. I may be part reptile. In my experience the Germans always won the window fight so they were open in pouring rain and driving snow. Germans are tough. Me not so much. I took a sleeping bag rated for sleeping outdoors in snow and slept in most everything I had.Another question:
I'm planning on starting April 18, G-d willing, CF, staying mostly in albergues. I know that weather can be variable and I won't know what's what until I get there. Will I need a sleeping bag or will a fleece sleep sack suffice along with a good ole hostel sleep sheet liner? I sleep hot and I hear even unheated rooms heat up from body heat.
(And yes, I've looked at other threads. I just need a bit of hand-holding so please humor me.)
Thanks in advance.
(ETA: removed sleep sheet liner link [which was supposed to be to a non-fleece liner], sigh. Thanks, Kanga)
Left second week of April twice. Snow at the top of the Pyrenees. The first year, it rained on and off for three weeks, all the way to Leon. Mornings were mostly +5C and gray, afternoons +14 ~ +18. We had frost one morning, and it was +2 with a strong wind the morning we left Burgos. The second camino was another story altogether. Rain and +10C the day we arrived in Pamplona, and the day we left. Then things improved. Until the day we walked into Santiago, its was sunny every day except for one shower as we arrived in Sahagun. Most days were 18-24, with chilly +6 C mornings on the meseta, +10 C mornings elsewhere. On my third, it was the Norte, but arrived in Galicia in a May heat wave. +30's for three days.
I suspect you are really asking what to pack. You needs shorts and a short sleeve for the nice days, and a wide brim sun hat. Hope you need it! You also need a warmer long sleeve, a fleece hoody, and a rain jacket. On the cold days, you wear everything in your pack. Wearing everything, you need to be comfortable at 0C in a moderate wind. Piece of cake for a 'pegger. Its all about layers....3-5 layers with an empty backpack when you set off on a cold morning, with each peeling off as the day warms up until you finish the day, often in shorts and a T-shirt.
The climate is temperate, but the weather is day-to day and year-to-year. Prepare for it all. As for Albergues, everything opens Easter week, so make sure you know when that is. Before then, there are a few places that will be closed, but not many, and finding a place on the Frances will not be an issue.
Buen Camino
Left second week of April twice. Snow at the top of the Pyrenees. The first year, it rained on and off for three weeks, all the way to Leon. Mornings were mostly +5C and gray, afternoons +14 ~ +18. We had frost one morning, and it was +2 with a strong wind the morning we left Burgos. The second camino was another story altogether. Rain and +10C the day we arrived in Pamplona, and the day we left. Then things improved. Until the day we walked into Santiago, its was sunny every day except for one shower as we arrived in Sahagun. Most days were 18-24, with chilly +6 C mornings on the meseta, +10 C mornings elsewhere. On my third, it was the Norte, but arrived in Galicia in a May heat wave. +30's for three days.
I suspect you are really asking what to pack. You needs shorts and a short sleeve for the nice days, and a wide brim sun hat. Hope you need it! You also need a warmer long sleeve, a fleece hoody, and a rain jacket. On the cold days, you wear everything in your pack. Wearing everything, you need to be comfortable at 0C in a moderate wind. Piece of cake for a 'pegger. Its all about layers....3-5 layers with an empty backpack when you set off on a cold morning, with each peeling off as the day warms up until you finish the day, often in shorts and a T-shirt.
The climate is temperate, but the weather is day-to day and year-to-year. Prepare for it all. As for Albergues, everything opens Easter week, so make sure you know when that is. Before then, there are a few places that will be closed, but not many, and finding a place on the Frances will not be an issue.
Buen Camino
I was manufactured in the Whiteshell......the weather is a little more agreeable on west coast......although its harder to keep my cardboard dry.Vancouver! Yay
We walked april 28th through May 15th.......Yes the first part was hot and dry, we got sunburned walking through the wine country past Astorga. Then after we hit Ocebreiro it rained all the time. We bought 3 dollar ponchos to get us through.Another weather question… if you’ve walked the Francis in mid April through May, did you experience all kinds of weather? How cold did it get, how hot did it get how much rain fell?!!!
Also, I’m interested in knowing your start date to see when the albergues opened the year that you went.
thanks very much!!!
I wore gortex pants and hooded jacket with a ball cap under the hood if it was raining. I felt like it was less likely to blow around in the rain than a poncho (I had a rain cover for my pack), and even without rain the jacket could be worn for a layer of warmth. They were light enough so stayed with me to SdC. I also packed two fleece vests by accident—one got mailed ahead but I think the other stayed with me. YMMV—I get cold easily and it was a very wet/cold spring when I walked and I also turned north to walk the Norte and Primitivo. It was easy to send the extra vest ahead to Ivar’s storage service. If I’d stayed on the Frances I could imagine reaching a point I might have mailed the other vest, the rain pants and perhaps the boots ahead as the weather became warmer and drier.2 more questions:
Did you wear FULL length rain gear (poncho)?
Did you mail any of your warmer clothing forward?
I love the Altus poncho (that’s really a long raincoat with a hump for your pack)2 more questions:
Did you wear FULL length rain gear (poncho)?
Did you mail any of your warmer clothing forward?
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