Spain: solar plant site data
Solar power plant in Almería, Spain: yield, tilt angle and row spacing
Almería: 1,723 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal tilt of 35°, 3° west of south (PVGIS). 6.6% above the median of the main cities of Spain (1,615). #14 of 147 main cities of Spain by yield. For comparison, Kyiv: 1,114 kWh/kWp — 54.6% more here.
Almería is in the province of Almería, Andalusia. Population 196,851 (GeoNames). 21 m above sea level. 109 km away: Granada, the nearest bigger city, 1,673 kWh/kWp — 3.0% more here. 5.49 m between rows, pitch 9.41 m, GCR 0.51 (latitude 36.8°).
- Yield of 1 kWp
- 1,723kWh/year
- Tilt
- 35°3° west of south
- 10 kW
- 17,228kWh/year
- Row pitch
- 9.41m · GCR 0.51
- Rank in the country
- 14of 147 cities
Ground frame designer
A ground frame for a solar plant: Almería
Latitude 36.8°: the tilt and the row pitch follow it. Enter the snow and wind for Spain in the designer, by the national annex to the Eurocode.
- No sign-up
- Snow and wind check
- Drawings and estimate
Yield by month
July: 167 kWh/kWp, November: 116 — 1.4 times less.
December: 119 against the median of 103 for the main cities of Spain, 15.5% more.
| kWp | A year | July | November |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 8,614 | 835 | 580 |
| 10 | 17,228 | 1,670 | 1,160 |
| 15 | 25,842 | 2,505 | 1,740 |
Fixed tilt facing south
What a table yields at another tilt than the optimal 35° — for roofs and frames with a standard slope.
| Tilt | A year | Against the optimum |
|---|---|---|
| 35° (optimum) | 1,723 | — |
| 15° | 1,641 | −4.7% |
| 30° | 1,717 | −0.4% |
| 45° | 1,701 | −1.3% |
| 90° | 1,088 | −36.9% |
Snow and wind loads
Snow and wind loads for a site in Spain follow CTE DB SE-AE (Spain’s Código Técnico de la Edificación) and, where the Eurocodes are applied, UNE-EN 1991-1-3 and UNE-EN 1991-1-4 with the Spanish National Annex. Solispec computes loads by the Ukrainian DBN V.1.2-2 only, so this page shows no snow or wind values for Spain: enter the characteristic values from these documents in the designer’s «Own snow S0» and «Own wind W0» fields.
The frame calculation for such a site is preliminary: before installation it must be checked by an engineer who works to the country’s standards.
Nearby cities
Sources
- PVGIS © European Union, 2001–2026 — yield, tilt and azimuth, data as of 2026-10-10
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) — coordinates, elevation, population and divisions (changed)
- Where to take snow and wind loads from: CTE DB SE-AE
- How these numbers are computed
Preliminary calculation: a design needs an engineer’s check.