How we verify what we publish

Every date, temperature and opening time on this site comes from a named source. Where we are guessing, the page says so in as many words.

That sounds like a low bar. It is not the one most travel sites clear. The usual pattern is a number with no origin, repeated from another site that copied it from a third, until nobody can say where it came from or when it was last true. Below is what we actually do instead.

Weather comes from AEMET, with the station named

Temperature, rainfall and sea figures come from AEMET, the Spanish state meteorological agency, using the 1981–2010 normal period. We use monthly normals rather than a forecast, because a guide written in August cannot tell you what 14 September will be like, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.

Where the station misleads, we say which way. Granada is the clearest case: the official station sits at the airport out in the vega, which drains cold air at night, so the recorded minimum runs two or three degrees below what you will feel in the city. Our Granada pages say that rather than quoting the number straight.

Fiesta dates carry a status

Every event in our fiesta calendar is marked one of three ways, and the label is visible on the card:

• Confirmed means the town hall or organiser has published the dates.
• Expected means we have worked them out from how the fiesta falls each year, and nobody has confirmed them yet.
• Same dates every year means the date is fixed and does not move.

Feria de Málaga is a good illustration. It is built around 19 August, the day the city was taken in 1487, and it runs Saturday to Saturday, so it shifts by a few days each year. We can tell you 2027 will be roughly 14–21 August. We cannot tell you the city has agreed to that, so it is marked expected until they publish.

We check the place, not the caption

Photo libraries mislabel Andalucía constantly, and the mistakes are the kind that a reader who knows the region spots immediately. Three examples we caught while building this site:

• Three separate photographs sold as "Plaza de Toros de Ronda" were actually La Malagueta, the bullring in Málaga city. Different building, different town, an hour apart.
• A photograph titled "Sierra de Grazalema, Malaga". Grazalema is in Cádiz province.
• A search for a village in Almería returned Lanzarote, two Greek islands and a town in Portugal. None of them were flagged as anything other than what we searched for.

So we match photographs to the place, not to the file name. It is slower and it means some pages wait for the right picture.

When we get it wrong, we fix it in public

In August 2026 we found two versions of an article about Málaga’s museums, one with a typo in its address. The obvious move was to redirect the typo to the correct one. That turned out to be backwards: the misspelled version was the longer, better article, and it covered two museums the other one missed. We had been about to bury the good one.

We merged them instead. The reason it is worth telling you is that the check which caught it was reading both articles rather than trusting the tidier explanation.

Where this site is still weak

Some photographs on our "living in" guides are still loaded from other people’s websites rather than our own library. That is fragile, and we are replacing them. We would rather write it here than let you find out when an image disappears.

Tell us when we are wrong

If a date has moved, a restaurant has closed or a bus no longer runs, write to us. Corrections from people who were there last week are worth more than anything we can check from a desk.