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Spain's 182 weather-warning zones: what they are and which one is yours

Published 11 October 2026 · Climaviso

Spain's severe-weather warnings aren't issued by town or by province but by zone: 182 across the country, each grouping neighbouring towns with a similar climate. This is how they work, and the full list with each zone's warning days.

What a warning zone is

AEMET groups neighbouring towns with a similar climate for severe weather into a warning zone. Each warning is issued for a whole zone: every town in it gets the same warnings, from the first village to the last. That's why, on Climaviso, towns in the same zone share the same history.

The city of València and Paiporta, for instance, are in the same zone (Litoral norte de Valencia) and received the same warnings on the day of the DANA. A warning says that a threshold is expected to be exceeded somewhere in the zone; it doesn't say which street or which ravine.

How many there are in each region

A province has between one and five zones; in the Canaries and the Balearics, each island (or pair of islands) has its own. By region:

RegionZones
Andalusia29
Castile and León24
Castile-La Mancha17
Catalonia16
Galicia16
Canary Islands13
Valencia region11
Aragon9
Extremadura8
Balearic Islands7
Basque Country7
Asturias5
Murcia5
Cantabria4
Navarre4
Madrid3
La Rioja2
Ceuta and Melilla1 each

Neighbours with different warnings

The border between two zones can run between two towns side by side. Benidorm is in Litoral sur de Alicante; Altea, a few kilometres away, in Litoral norte. From 2019 to 2025, Altea's zone had 382 warning days and Benidorm's 284. For rain alone, 212 against 107: see rain in Alicante, zone by zone.

The zones with the most and fewest warnings

From 2019 to 2025, the zones with the most warning days were in the Pyrenees: Pirineo oscense (902 days), Pirineo de Lleida (863) and Pirineo de Girona (748). The fewest: Melilla (124), Ceuta (128), Nevada y Alpujarras (142) and the western Asturian coast (151).

Careful when comparing zones: each has its own thresholds. The yellow heat warning starts at 34 °C on the Cantabrian coast and at 38 °C in the Guadalquivir valley. More in what each colour means.

How to find your town's zone

Look up your town on the map: its page says which zone it belongs to and shows its warnings day by day since 2018. You can also browse by province in the town index or use the list below.

All 182 zones

Warning days a year: 2019–2025 average. A day with several warnings counts once. Towns: the most populous towns in each zone that have a page on Climaviso.

Andalucía

ZoneProvinceMain townsWarning days a year
Levante almerienseAlmeríaVera, Garrucha35
Nacimiento y Campo de TabernasAlmería—32
Poniente y Almería CapitalAlmeríaAlmería, Roquetas de Mar, El Ejido55
Valle del Almanzora y Los VélezAlmeríaHuércal-Overa, Albox, Vélez-Rubio53
Campiña gaditanaCádizJerez de la Frontera, Arcos de la Frontera, Villamartín51
EstrechoCádizAlgeciras, La Línea de la Concepción, San Roque49
GrazalemaCádizUbrique, Olvera33
Litoral gaditanoCádizCádiz, San Fernando, Chiclana de la Frontera39
Campiña cordobesaCórdobaCórdoba, Palma del Río, Fernán Núñez73
Sierra y PedrochesCórdobaPozoblanco, Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, Villanueva de Córdoba46
Subbética cordobesaCórdobaLucena, Puente Genil, Montilla40
Costa granadinaGranadaMotril, Almuñécar, Salobreña29
Cuenca del GenilGranadaGranada, Armilla, Maracena56
Guadix y BazaGranadaBaza, Guadix, Huéscar61
Nevada y AlpujarrasGranadaPadul, Órgiva20
Andévalo y CondadoHuelvaBollullos Par del Condado, Gibraleón, Valverde del Camino46
AracenaHuelvaAracena39
Litoral de HuelvaHuelvaHuelva, Lepe, Almonte39
Capital y Montes de JaénJaénAlcalá la Real43
Cazorla y SeguraJaénVillacarrillo, Cazorla65
Morena y CondadoJaénLinares, Andújar, Bailén57
Valle del Guadalquivir de JaénJaénJaén, Úbeda, Martos59
AntequeraMálagaAntequera, Campillos, Archidona27
AxarquíaMálagaVélez-Málaga, Rincón de la Victoria, Nerja26
RondaMálagaRonda29
Sol y GuadalhorceMálagaMálaga, Marbella, Fuengirola35
Campiña sevillanaSevillaSevilla, Dos Hermanas, Alcalá de Guadaíra69
Sierra norte de SevillaSevillaCazalla de la Sierra40
Sierra sur de SevillaSevillaEstepa31

Aragón

Canarias

Cantabria

Castilla - La Mancha

Castilla y León

Cataluña

Ciudad de Ceuta

ZoneProvinceMain townsWarning days a year
CeutaCeutaCeuta18

Ciudad de Melilla

ZoneProvinceMain townsWarning days a year
MelillaMelillaMelilla18

Comunidad de Madrid

Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Comunitat Valenciana

Extremadura

Galicia

Illes Balears

La Rioja

ZoneProvinceMain townsWarning days a year
Ibérica riojanaLa Rioja—78
Ribera del Ebro de La RiojaLa RiojaLogroño, Alfaro, Arnedo58

País Vasco

Principado de Asturias

Región de Murcia

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A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building.