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Pictures snow Barcelona Spain. Does it snow in Barcelona? Barcelona rarely gets snow in the city center, but it can happen. It usually only snows very lightly in the city for perhaps a few hours and it usually melts within 24 hours. In February 2018 Barcelona and the northern part of the province of Catalonia has had more snowfall than usual which has effected traffic. This was part of the cold air front nicknamed the "beast from the East" which swept over Europe from Siberia. In Spanish it was called "la bestia del este".

See pictures snow Catalonia February 2018

The hill areas near Barcelona, which are around 500m to 1000m altitude, can also get snow sometimes, but still is it rare. There is lots of snow evey winter in the Pyrenees mountains which border Spain and France. Every few years there can be heavy snow in the north of Catalonia in the counties that border the Pre-Pyrenees and Pyrenees mountains. This happened in February 2018.

See pictures from Barcelona snowfall on Tibidabo hill and areas surrounding Barcelona on 3rd and 4th Februeary 2015. On 25th December 1962 Barcelona a huge snowfall of almost 1m of snow in the city.

23rd February 2013 Barcelona snow
25th December 1962 Barcelona snow

The Barcelona snow pictures below were taken during a snow storm in Barcelona on March 8th 2010. Only a few centimetres of snow fell but combined with high winds it still disrupted traffic and public transport in and around Barcelona.

Barcelona snowstorm March 8 2010

March 8th 2010. Local government extended metro hours, provided parking, shelter and cheap hotel rooms for residents, who could not get to their homes outside Barcelona.

Barcelona snowstorm March 8 2010