Severe-weather warnings in Arrecife
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in Lanzarote, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Arrecife had 35 warning days from AEMET: 26 yellow, 8 orange and 1 red. Mostly dust and rain. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 61 | 58 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 35 | 26 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 39 | 37 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 42 | 38 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 46 | 44 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 38 | 30 | 8 | 0 |
| 2020 | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 |
| 2019 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018* | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
A day with several warnings counts once, at its highest level. 2018: from 18 Jun 2018. 2026: up to 26 Oct 2026.
Which warnings, since 2018
- Wind: 137 days
- Heat: 95 days
- Dust: 71 days
- Rain: 58 days
- Storms: 29 days
Episodes that hit the Lanzarote zone
- August 2025 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 3–18 August 2025 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- August 2023 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 6–13 August 2023 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- Heat and rain in Canarias, Cataluña and elsewhere, 26–29 August 2020 · here: red warning, 2 days at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Arrecife
How many days a year does Arrecife have a weather warning?
On average, 34 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 4.3 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is Arrecife one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
No: it is among the calmest. Its warning zone, Lanzarote, ranks 163rd of Spain's 180 warning zones by warning days a year (2019–2025; 1st has the most). Each zone has its own thresholds: this measures how often AEMET warns, not the climate or the risk to a home.
Which kind of bad weather brings the most warnings to Arrecife?
Wind: 15 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then heat (11) and dust (8.0).
Which month has the most warnings in Arrecife?
July, with 5.3 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is June, with 1.0.
Has Arrecife ever had a red warning?
Yes: 4 red-warning days since 18 June 2018. The last was on 10 August 2025, for heat.
Why does Arrecife get the same warnings as Tías?
Because AEMET doesn't warn by town but by zone. Arrecife, Tías and 5 other towns are in the Lanzarote zone (Lanzarote) and get exactly the same warnings.
Other towns in the Lanzarote zone
Warnings are issued by zone: these towns share the same warnings.
Nearby, in other zones
- Puerto del Rosario · 33 days in 2025
- Antigua · 33 days in 2025
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · 25 days in 2025
- Telde · 66 days in 2025
- Arucas · 25 days in 2025
- Santa Brígida · 25 days in 2025
- Ingenio · 66 days in 2025
- Firgas · 25 days in 2025
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A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building. Data © AEMET.
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