An Algarve spring
How winter turns into spring in the eastern Algarve, seen from one coliving house in Fuseta between February and the end of March 2026. Dry weeks between wet ones, more time outside, and a house season that ends just when the weather gets good.
First, what this is not. This is not the whole Algarve. I spent the winter and the start of spring in one house in Fuseta, in the east. The west coast I can’t tell you anything about.
Also, spring here did not start on 20 March. It started a few times.
The weather, honestly
January and the first half of February were wind, storms and rain. In the first week of February it rained every day, 88 mm, with gusts up to 94 km/h1.
Then, in the week of 16 February, nothing. 0 mm, wind down to 20 km/h. The week after, also dry, and up to 20°C.
It was not the end of winter. Early March was wet again, and the week of 16 March brought 76 mm of rain, more than any week in January1.
And then the last week of March and the first days of April. Dry, up to 24°C, then 26°C, and the air much drier than all winter (a weekly mean humidity of 46%, after 74-86% most weeks)1.
So if you plan a stay around “spring in the Algarve”, plan for this pattern, not for the postcard. Dry weeks between wet ones, and warm when it is dry.
What changed in the day
Not much on paper. Run in the morning, weights, breakfast on the terrace, work, lunch, work, dinner. That was the routine in January and it was the same in March.
What changed is the balance. Around the end of January the work got easier and I had more time for the outdoors. By March there was a group workout most weeks, organised by the community manager and me, and the first community workout on the beach had happened back in February, in the first dry week.
Plus the evenings got longer. The Nanobrew bar in the village opens only Friday to Sunday, until 9pm. In March I was there most weekends. In 3 months I never had a bad night there.
The people change, the house stays
Every few weeks somebody leaves and somebody new arrives. In February we said goodbye to our first community manager with a homemade jam session and welcomed the new one with cake.
You need a certain amount of time to arrive in a group. Then the group changes, and you arrive again. From my point of view this is the hard part of a long stay in a coliving, and also the good part. If you don’t want to meet new people every few weeks, a coliving is not for you, you can also go to an Airbnb.
A season that ends when the weather starts
This is the strange part. Pomar na Praia in Fuseta runs October to April2. So just when the weather is finally good, the house closes. The same host keeps its other house, POMAR Base on the farm outside Olhão, open until June2.
Our season ended with a pizza party. I sneaked out for a short while to also say goodbye to the people I met at Nanobrew. Then back.
What stays
People make the experience, not the location and not the building. I came with a carry-on backpack and a day pack, and I left with a bit less than I brought.
And yes, the weather in the eastern Algarve can be very unpredictable. Still better than Germany at this time of year.