ClimavisoBad weather in Alicante
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
Alicante has fewer warnings than most of Spain and a two-season kind of bad weather: heat in summer and, now and then, rain nobody forgets.
41
warning days a year
Spain: 54
7.1
orange or red warning days
a year
11
red days
2019–2025
#142
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
The city of Alicante sits in the province's southern coastal zone, the least rain-warned of Alicante's three, as we showed in rain in Alicante, zone by zone. Rain and heat are its top reasons for a warning, with summer and autumn storms behind.
Heavy rain comes rarely, but it shows: the September 2019 DANA, the one that flooded the Vega Baja, put the city on red for rain and storms two days running. And summer heat has reached red several times, in July and August.
Alicante has 366,221 inhabitants and sits in the Litoral sur de Alicante warning zone (Alacant/Alicante). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 61 other towns, such as Torrevieja, Orihuela and Benidorm.
Alicante's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Alicante gets the warnings for the Litoral sur de Alicante 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.
- Litoral sur de Alicante (Alicante's zone): 41 days a year
- Campo de Cartagena y Mazarrón: 29 days a year
- Valle del Guadalentín, Lorca y Águilas: 42 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 Alicante: 55 days a year
- Litoral sur de Valencia: 56 days a year
- Hellín y Almansa: 67 days a year
- Interior sur de Valencia: 73 days a year
- La Mancha albaceteña: 83 days a year
Alicante's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in Alicante'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.
Fewer than average: cold, snow and fog.
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 Alicante, 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 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | ||
| Storms | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
| Wind | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 | |||
| Heat | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 0.6 |
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
2.9 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: wind and storms.
February
The quietest month0.9 warning days on average. Mostly: wind.
March
1 red day since 20193.3 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.
April
2.4 warning days on average. Mostly: storms and wind.
May
3.1 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
June
2.4 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: heat and rain.
July
2 red days since 20196.9 warning days on average (1.9 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
August
The busiest month5 red days since 20197.3 warning days on average (1.7 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
2 red days since 20194.3 warning days on average (1.6 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
October
1 red day since 20192.4 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 rain.
December
2.6 warning days on average. Mostly: wind and rain.
The best month to go (if you'd rather not see warnings)
Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Alicante are February and April: 0.9 and 2.4 warning days on average. The busiest is August, with 7.3.
For beach time without warnings, June usually works.
Summers: the heat
Alicante has 15 heat-warning days a year (2.9 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 21 June to 27 August. The earliest one came on 29 April; the latest, on 9 September.
Red heat days since 2019: 12 July 2021, 15 August 2021, 13 August 2022, 19 July 2023, 10 August 2023, 17 August 2025, 18 August 2025 and 23 July 2026.
Yellow for heat needs 36 °C, and warnings look only at the maximum temperature, not humidity.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 6.3 warning days on average: rain (1.1), storms (0.7) and wind (5.0).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −1 °C; red, at −8 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
Rain and storms
Alicante has 15 rain-warning days and 12 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, May and March.
Here the yellow rain warning starts at 20 mm in an hour or 60 mm in 12 hours; red, at 90 mm or 180 mm.
Red rain or storm days since 2019: 12 September 2019, 13 September 2019, 4 March 2022 and 10 October 2025.
The rain that reaches warning level here is rare but torrential: the bar is high (20 litres in an hour for yellow), and it still gets cleared.
Wind, fog and coast
Wind warnings: 9.4 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 57 | 15 | 1 | heat and wind |
| 2025 | 58 | 11 | 3 | heat and rain |
| 2024 | 28 | 4 | 0 | rain and heat |
| 2023 | 42 | 5 | 2 | storms and rain |
| 2022 | 49 | 1 | 2 | heat and rain |
| 2021 | 41 | 7 | 2 | heat and rain |
| 2020 | 31 | 5 | 0 | rain and heat |
| 2019 | 35 | 6 | 2 | wind and rain |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 35 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2025, with 58 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 23 July 2026 heat
- 10 October 2025 rain
- 18 August 2025 heat
- 17 August 2025 heat
- 10 August 2023 heat
- 19 July 2023 heat
- 13 August 2022 heat
- 4 March 2022 rain
- 15 August 2021 heat
- 12 July 2021 heat
- 13 September 2019 rain storms
- 12 September 2019 rain storms
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 11 days, from 15 July 2026 to 25 July 2026.
When a warning is issued in Alicante
| Yellow | Orange | Red | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat (high) | 36 °C | 39 °C | 42 °C |
| Cold (low) | −1 °C | −4 °C | −8 °C |
| Wind (gusts) | 70 km/h | 90 km/h | 130 km/h |
| Rain in 1 hour | 20 mm | 40 mm | 90 mm |
| Rain in 12 hours | 60 mm | 100 mm | 180 mm |
| Snow in 24 hours | 2 cm | 5 cm | 20 cm |
Thresholds for the Litoral sur de Alicante 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.
Alicante 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 Alicante or are thinking of moving
- With 7.1 orange or red days a year, serious warnings come a few times a year, nearly always in the same seasons.
- Most of the year you'll see few warnings: it's one of Spain's less-warned zones.
- Late summer and autumn are cold-drop (gota fría) season: worth knowing whether your street or garage floods.
- Heat warnings cluster in July and August, with the odd red: air conditioning is more than advisable.
In short
A city that's quiet for warnings, with heat warnings in summer and the odd very heavy rain. Few scares, but ones worth planning for.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in Alicante?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and May. On average there are 15 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit Alicante?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, February and April: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in Alicante?
Yes: 12 red days since June 2018, the latest on 23 July 2026 (heat).
Does it get very hot in Alicante?
There are 15 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.
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Other cities
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- València
- Sevilla
- Zaragoza
- Málaga
- Bilbao
- 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
- Albacete
- 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