ClimavisoBad weather in Albacete
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
Albacete is among Spain's busiest warning zones: heat rules the summer and January packs its own punch.
83
warning days a year
Spain: 54
14
orange or red warning days
a year
7
red days
2019–2025
#15
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
La Mancha albaceteña gathers more warnings than most zones in the country. Heat is its top reason, followed by storms and rain, and July and August are by far the busiest months.
But it isn't all summer. In January 2021, with storm Filomena, the zone spent two days on red for snow and another for cold. Heat has reached red too, in several summers, such as August 2021 and July 2023.
Albacete has 175,400 inhabitants and sits in the La Mancha albaceteña warning zone (Albacete). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 3 other towns, such as Villarrobledo, La Roda and Casas-Ibáñez.
Albacete's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Albacete gets the warnings for the La Mancha albaceteña zone, outlined on the map. The zones around it have their own thresholds and their own warnings.
Average warning days a year, 2019–2025, against the median of Spain's zones (54 days). Tap a zone to go to its page.
- La Mancha albaceteña (Albacete's zone): 83 days a year
- Montes del norte y Anchuras: 41 days a year
- Litoral sur de Alicante: 41 days a year
- Sierras de Alcudia y Madrona: 43 days a year
- Vega del Segura: 46 days a year
- Interior de Alicante: 51 days a year
- Altiplano de Murcia: 51 days a year
- Litoral norte de Valencia: 51 days a year
- La Mancha toledana: 53 days a year
- Litoral norte de Alicante: 55 days a year
- Noroeste de Murcia: 56 days a year
- Litoral sur de Valencia: 56 days a year
- Morena y Condado: 57 days a year
- La Mancha de Ciudad Real: 57 days a year
- Valle del Tajo: 58 days a year
- Valle del Guadalquivir de Jaén: 59 days a year
- Guadix y Baza: 61 days a year
- Cazorla y Segura: 65 days a year
- Hellín y Almansa: 67 days a year
- La Mancha conquense: 67 days a year
- Interior sur de Castellón: 70 days a year
- Sur, Vegas y Oeste: 70 days a year
- Interior sur de Valencia: 73 days a year
- Alcaraz y Segura: 75 days a year
- Interior norte de Valencia: 75 days a year
- Serranía de Cuenca: 85 days a year
- Gúdar y Maestrazgo: 94 days a year
Albacete's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in Albacete's zone with the average of Spain's 182 zones. The dashed circle is the average zone; the edge, three times the average or more.
More warnings than the average zone: fog (2.9×), heat (2.3×) and cold (2×).
Fewer than average: snow.
Averages for 2019–2025. It measures how often AEMET issued warnings, not danger or damage.
The year, month by month
Warning days in each month, averaged over 2019–2025, by the day's highest level.
Every day since 2019
Each line is one year in Albacete, January to December, and each mark a day with a warning in its zone: you can see at a glance when bad weather bunches up and which years were calmer.
The colour is each day's highest level. 2026: up to 26 October 2026. Hover or tap a mark to see the dates.
Which warnings, in which months
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rain | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 5.1 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
| Storms | 0.1 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 1.3 | ||||
| Wind | 2.4 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 2.6 | |
| Heat | 0.1 | 0.1 | 5.0 | 17 | 15 | |||||||
| Cold | 6.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Snow | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Fog | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.3 |
Warning days of each type and month, yearly average 2019–2025. A day with rain and storms counts in both rows.
Month by month, in detail
January
3 red days since 201911 warning days on average (1.6 orange or red). Mostly: cold and wind.
February
The quietest month2.0 warning days on average. Mostly: wind and cold.
March
3.0 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and snow.
April
2.9 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.
May
3.3 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.
June
8.9 warning days on average (1.3 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
July
The busiest month2 red days since 201919 warning days on average (4.6 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
August
2 red days since 201918 warning days on average (3.6 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
5.7 warning days on average (1.0 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.
October
3.0 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
November
2.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: wind and fog.
December
4.4 warning days on average (1.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and fog.
The best month to go (if you'd rather not see warnings)
Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Albacete are February and November: 2.0 and 2.1 warning days on average. The busiest is July, with 19.
February and November are the quietest months.
Summers: the heat
Albacete has 36 heat-warning days a year (7.1 of them orange or red). Yellow starts at a forecast high of 36 °C; orange at 39 °C; red at 42 °C.
The heat-warning season usually runs from 25 June to 23 August. The earliest one came on 28 April; the latest, on 28 August.
Red heat days since 2019: 14 August 2021, 15 August 2021, 11 July 2023, 18 July 2023 and 23 July 2026.
Yellow for heat needs 36 °C and red 42 °C. In July 2022 warnings filled almost the whole month.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 18 warning days on average: wind (6.3), cold (7.6), snow (1.4) and fog (2.6).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −4 °C; red, at −12 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
Red cold or snow days since 2019: 8 January 2021, 9 January 2021 and 12 January 2021.
January is the year's other peak: cold triggers yellow at lows of −4 °C and snow at just 2 cm in 24 hours.
Rain and storms
Albacete has 19 rain-warning days and 24 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, June and August.
Here the yellow rain warning starts at 15 mm in an hour or 40 mm in 12 hours; red, at 60 mm or 120 mm.
There hasn't been a single red rain or storm warning since 2019.
Wind, fog and coast
Wind warnings: 12 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Fog: 3.4 days a year, always yellow (fog has no higher level).
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 92 | 21 | 1 | heat and storms |
| 2025 | 85 | 17 | 0 | heat and storms |
| 2024 | 71 | 12 | 0 | heat and storms |
| 2023 | 105 | 15 | 2 | heat and storms |
| 2022 | 70 | 10 | 0 | heat and storms |
| 2021 | 85 | 11 | 5 | storms and heat |
| 2020 | 82 | 15 | 0 | heat and storms |
| 2019 | 84 | 14 | 0 | heat and wind |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 76 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2023, with 105 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 23 July 2026 heat
- 18 July 2023 heat
- 11 July 2023 heat
- 15 August 2021 heat
- 14 August 2021 heat
- 12 January 2021 cold
- 9 January 2021 snow
- 8 January 2021 snow
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 21 days, from 10 July 2022 to 30 July 2022.
When a warning is issued in Albacete
| Yellow | Orange | Red | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat (high) | 36 °C | 39 °C | 42 °C |
| Cold (low) | −4 °C | −8 °C | −12 °C |
| Wind (gusts) | 70 km/h | 90 km/h | 130 km/h |
| Rain in 1 hour | 15 mm | 30 mm | 60 mm |
| Rain in 12 hours | 40 mm | 80 mm | 120 mm |
| Snow in 24 hours | 2 cm | 5 cm | 20 cm |
Thresholds for the La Mancha albaceteña zone in AEMET's warning plan. Storms have no numeric threshold: yellow for strong storms, orange for very strong ones. More in what each colour means.
Albacete compared with other cities
| City | Warning days a year | Orange or red a year | Red days since 2019 | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | 92 | 17 | 9 | heat and storms |
| Zaragoza | 89 | 22 | 20 | heat and storms |
| Cuenca | 85 | 14 | 3 | heat and storms |
| Soria | 85 | 9.1 | 1 | storms and rain |
| Teruel | 84 | 11 | 4 | storms and rain |
| Albacete | 83 | 14 | 7 | heat and storms |
| Palma | 78 | 15 | 1 | rain and storms |
| Huesca | 77 | 12 | 0 | storms and rain |
| Segovia | 74 | 8.0 | 0 | storms and wind |
| Córdoba | 73 | 29 | 15 | heat and rain |
| Ávila | 73 | 7.1 | 4 | rain and wind |
| Sevilla | 69 | 23 | 12 | heat and rain |
| Pamplona | 68 | 15 | 6 | storms and rain |
| Ibiza | 67 | 13 | 2 | rain and wind |
| Girona | 66 | 10 | 4 | rain and storms |
| Madrid | 65 | 16 | 5 | heat and storms |
| Valladolid | 65 | 9.0 | 0 | heat and storms |
| Burgos | 64 | 6.6 | 1 | storms and rain |
| Zamora | 63 | 7.1 | 0 | heat and storms |
| Palencia | 59 | 5.6 | 0 | storms and rain |
| Jaén | 59 | 25 | 7 | heat and rain |
| Salamanca | 59 | 6.4 | 0 | heat and storms |
| Toledo | 58 | 20 | 5 | heat and rain |
| Logroño | 58 | 14 | 7 | storms and heat |
| Badajoz | 57 | 19 | 9 | heat and rain |
| Guadalajara | 57 | 9.9 | 3 | heat and storms |
| Granada | 56 | 14 | 5 | heat and storms |
| Almería | 55 | 5.3 | 0 | wind and heat |
| Dénia | 55 | 12 | 8 | rain and storms |
| Barcelona | 54 | 9.4 | 5 | rain and storms |
| Vitoria-Gasteiz | 52 | 10 | 2 | storms and wind |
| València | 51 | 12 | 13 | rain and storms |
| Ciudad Real | 50 | 13 | 0 | heat and rain |
| León | 50 | 3.6 | 0 | storms and rain |
| Tarragona | 49 | 8.7 | 2 | rain and storms |
| Murcia | 46 | 13 | 11 | heat and rain |
| Vigo | 46 | 5.1 | 0 | rain and wind |
| Castellón de la Plana | 45 | 11 | 2 | rain and storms |
| San Sebastián | 43 | 5.7 | 4 | rain and storms |
| Bilbao | 41 | 8.0 | 9 | rain and storms |
| Alicante | 41 | 7.1 | 11 | rain and heat |
| A Coruña | 41 | 6.7 | 2 | wind and rain |
| Cáceres | 40 | 9.7 | 0 | heat and rain |
| Lugo | 39 | 3.3 | 0 | rain and wind |
| Ourense | 39 | 6.1 | 4 | heat and rain |
| Cádiz | 39 | 5.1 | 2 | rain and wind |
| Huelva | 39 | 9.1 | 7 | heat and rain |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 37 | 5.7 | 3 | wind and heat |
| Málaga | 35 | 10 | 15 | rain and heat |
| Santander | 33 | 3.1 | 3 | rain and wind |
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 26 | 2.9 | 0 | heat and wind |
| Oviedo | 26 | 3.1 | 1 | rain and storms |
| Gijón | 26 | 2.0 | 0 | rain and wind |
| Avilés | 22 | 1.9 | 0 | rain and wind |
Averages for 2019–2025. Careful: each zone has its own thresholds, so a warning doesn't mean exactly the same everywhere.
If you live in Albacete or are thinking of moving
- With 14 orange or red days a year, serious warnings are part of the calendar: it pays to know when they come.
- Plan for summer: a cool home and morning schedules in July and August.
- In January, watch for frost and snow if you drive.
- Summer storms are the second reason for warnings: it's worth knowing how your street drains.
In short
A zone with plenty of warnings, mostly in summer, and a winter that bites now and then.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in Albacete?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and June. On average there are 19 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit Albacete?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, February and November: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in Albacete?
Yes: 8 red days since June 2018, the latest on 23 July 2026 (heat).
Does it get very hot in Albacete?
There are 36 heat-warning days a year on average. The yellow warning here starts at a forecast high of 36 °C.
How this was made
Everything comes from the archive of official AEMET warnings that Climaviso has kept since June 2018: each day counts once, at the highest level the zone had. A warning is a forecast, not damage or a measurement, and it's issued for the whole zone, not your street. We don't cover measured temperatures or rainfall: only when, and why, a warning was issued.
More on Albacete
- Camino de Levante weather, stage by stage
- Albacete's warnings day by day since 2018
- The La Mancha albaceteña zone
- Today's and tomorrow's warnings in Albacete
- How the year is going across Spain
- How warnings work
Other cities
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- València
- Sevilla
- Zaragoza
- Málaga
- Bilbao
- Alicante
- Gijón
- Avilés
- Murcia
- Palma
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Valladolid
- Vigo
- A Coruña
- Granada
- Córdoba
- Oviedo
- Pamplona
- San Sebastián
- Santander
- Salamanca
- Logroño
- Castellón de la Plana
- Cádiz
- Dénia
- Ibiza
- Almería
- Ávila
- Badajoz
- Burgos
- Cáceres
- Ciudad Real
- Cuenca
- Girona
- Guadalajara
- Huelva
- Huesca
- Jaén
- León
- Lleida
- Lugo
- Ourense
- Palencia
- Segovia
- Soria
- Tarragona
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Zamora