Arraiolos is one of the municipalities of the District of Évora and its administrative limits are defined since 1736.

With the Town of Arraiolos placed at an altitude of 110 feet (Longitude 7º 59' W and a Latitude of 38º 43' N), the municipality is limited north by the municipalities of Mora and Coruche, west with the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo, south with the municipality of Évora and east with the municipalities of Estremoz and Sousel.

Integrated almost totally in the water basin of the river Tagus, with the brooks of Divor and Tera constituting its main water courses, has a privileged geographic position which provides it enlarged tourism potentialities if we consider all its natural, architectonic and artistic heritage.

Arraiolos has a climate of transition from submarine characteristics to continental attenuated characteristics, partly die to the inexistence of mountains and to the relative proximity to the sea.(1)

 
  – climate characterization based on the registers of the Meteorological Station of   Évora.