Palos de la Frontera
Palos de la Frontera
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📷 MiguelAngel fotografo· CC BY-SA 4.0"De aquí partió Colón" | "From here Columbus departed"
About
Palos de la Frontera is a town and municipality located in the southwestern Spanish province of Huelva, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is situated some 13 km (8 mi) from the provincial capital, Huelva. According to the 2015 census, the city had a population of 10,365. It is most famous for being the place from which Columbus set sail in 1492, eventually reaching the Americas.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Palos de la Frontera, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Palos de la Frontera
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
25° / 12°
UV High
Sat
Partly cloudy
24° / 13°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
24° / 13°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
25° / 13°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
26° / 14°
UV Very high
Wed
Clear
31° / 17°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
32° / 10°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.1h
07:19 – 21:27local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Palos de la Frontera
3 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Seville Airport (SVQ) at 91 km.
Getting around Palos de la Frontera
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 3.0, Miguel Ángel "fotógrafo".
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.