Climate and Water quality
The climate is mild and privileged. So much so that always spoke of the spring constant of the Mar Menor. It enjoys the warmest winters in the Peninsula, conducive to enjoying a quiet sunny and milder summers on the Mediterranean coast, thanks to the gentle breezes of Levante.
The average annual temperature is 17 º C, and monthly averages for June, July, August and September are above 21 º C. The winter is mild, because the average temperature of the cold months are not descended from 10 ° C.
Another highlight is the lack of rainfall, with less than 300 LM2. year. Dryness is key here, especially for its 320 days and 3,000 hours of sunshine annually.
Brief details of these that lead us to the privilege of enjoying a climate of gods, and are a tourist attraction, becoming the Mar Menor the ideal place for holidays throughout the year.
The water temperature is closely related to atmospheric temperature, as befits a relatively small body of water for the operating scale atmospheric processes.
This circumstance makes the thermal inertia of the lagoon is less than the Mediterranean. In the colder months the water temperature is around 1 º C while in August reached 30 ° C. be In certain areas of the banks, due to the limited depth can be recorded temperatures of 8 º C to 36 º C in summer. Moreover, the spatial distribution of the lagoon is uniform, the differences between different areas of less than 1-2 º C.