ClimavisoBad weather in Ávila
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
Ávila is a mountain city: its warnings come more from winter, rain and wind than from heat.
73
warning days a year
Spain: 54
7.1
orange or red warning days
a year
4
red days
2019–2025
#35
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
The Sistema Central de Ávila zone has more warnings than most zones in Spain, and spreads them widely: rain, wind, storms, heat, snow and cold. January and March are the busiest months.
Its few red warnings have mostly been about water: for rain in October 2020 and two days running in November 2025. In January 2021, during the Filomena days, cold reached red as well.
Ávila has 59,107 inhabitants and sits in the Sistema Central de Ávila warning zone (Ávila). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 1 other towns, such as Piedrahíta.
Ávila's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Ávila gets the warnings for the Sistema Central de Ávila 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.
- Sistema Central de Ávila (Ávila's zone): 73 days a year
- Meseta cacereña: 40 days a year
- Montes de Toledo: 47 days a year
- Meseta de Ávila: 52 days a year
- Sur de Salamanca: 53 days a year
- Sierra de San Vicente: 53 days a year
- La Mancha toledana: 53 days a year
- Villuercas y Montánchez: 53 days a year
- Tajo y Alagón: 53 days a year
- Sistema Central de Salamanca: 54 days a year
- Alcarria de Guadalajara: 57 days a year
- Valle del Tajo: 58 days a year
- Meseta de Salamanca: 59 days a year
- Meseta de Segovia: 60 days a year
- Sur de Ávila: 63 days a year
- Meseta de Zamora: 63 days a year
- Meseta de Valladolid: 65 days a year
- Metropolitana y Henares: 65 days a year
- Norte de Cáceres: 65 days a year
- Serranía de Guadalajara: 68 days a year
- Meseta de Soria: 69 days a year
- Sur, Vegas y Oeste: 70 days a year
- Sistema Central de Segovia: 74 days a year
- Sierra de Madrid: 78 days a year
Ávila's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in Ávila'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: snow (3.7×), cold (2.9×) and wind (1.4×).
Fewer than average: 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 Ávila, 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 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 1.0 |
| Storms | 1.7 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 0.4 | |||||
| Wind | 3.0 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.1 | |
| Heat | 1.7 | 6.4 | 5.4 | |||||||||
| Cold | 7.6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Snow | 2.3 | 1.6 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 2.6 |
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
The busiest month1 red day since 201913 warning days on average (1.4 orange or red). Mostly: cold and wind.
February
5.0 warning days on average (0.6 orange or red). Mostly: cold and wind.
March
8.1 warning days on average (0.7 orange or red). Mostly: snow and wind.
April
3.6 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and storms.
May
The quietest month3.0 warning days on average. Mostly: storms and rain.
June
6.3 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.
July
7.4 warning days on average (0.9 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
August
7.6 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
4.0 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
October
1 red day since 20194.4 warning days on average (0.9 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.
November
2 red days since 20194.9 warning days on average (0.7 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.
December
5.9 warning days on average (0.9 orange or red). Mostly: wind and snow.
The best month to go (if you'd rather not see warnings)
Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Ávila are May and April: 3.0 and 3.6 warning days on average. The busiest is January, with 13.
April and May are the quietest months.
Summers: the heat
Ávila has 14 heat-warning days a year (1.0 of them orange or red). Yellow starts at a forecast high of 34 °C; orange at 37 °C; red at 40 °C.
The heat-warning season usually runs from 7 July to 11 August. The earliest one came on 13 June; the latest, on 24 August.
The heat threshold is low, 34 °C for yellow, and even so heat nearly always stays at that level.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 23 warning days on average: rain (3.0), wind (7.9), cold (10) and snow (6.4).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −6 °C; red, at −14 °C. Snow, at 5 cm in 24 hours.
Red cold or snow days since 2019: 12 January 2021.
Being a mountain zone, the thresholds are higher: yellow for snow needs 5 cm in 24 hours and cold needs lows of −6 °C.
Rain and storms
Ávila has 23 rain-warning days and 16 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, June and October.
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.
Red rain or storm days since 2019: 20 October 2020, 13 November 2025 and 14 November 2025.
Wind, fog and coast
Wind warnings: 19 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 80 km/h.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 82 | 3 | 0 | heat and rain |
| 2025 | 83 | 4 | 2 | rain and storms |
| 2024 | 72 | 1 | 0 | rain and snow |
| 2023 | 77 | 13 | 0 | rain and cold |
| 2022 | 68 | 4 | 0 | heat and rain |
| 2021 | 71 | 10 | 1 | wind and storms |
| 2020 | 70 | 6 | 1 | rain and wind |
| 2019 | 68 | 8 | 0 | wind and rain |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 61 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2025, with 83 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 14 November 2025 rain
- 13 November 2025 rain
- 12 January 2021 cold
- 20 October 2020 rain
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 17 days, from 31 December 2020 to 16 January 2021.
When a warning is issued in Ávila
| Yellow | Orange | Red | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat (high) | 34 °C | 37 °C | 40 °C |
| Cold (low) | −6 °C | −10 °C | −14 °C |
| Wind (gusts) | 80 km/h | 100 km/h | 140 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 | 5 cm | 20 cm | 40 cm |
Thresholds for the Sistema Central de Ávila 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.
Ávila 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 Ávila 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.
- Winter is the season to prepare for: snow, frost and wind.
- If you often drive over the mountain passes, follow the snow warnings.
- Summer brings heat and storm warnings, nearly always yellow.
In short
A zone of varied, frequent warnings, more winter than summer, with rain as its main reason.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in Ávila?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and June. On average there are 23 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit Ávila?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, May and April: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in Ávila?
Yes: 4 red days since June 2018, the latest on 14 November 2025 (rain).
Does it get very hot in Ávila?
There are 14 heat-warning days a year on average. The yellow warning here starts at a forecast high of 34 °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 Ávila
- Camino de Levante weather, stage by stage
- Ávila's warnings day by day since 2018
- The Sistema Central de Ávila zone
- Today's and tomorrow's warnings in Ávila
- 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
- Albacete
- Badajoz
- Burgos
- Cáceres
- Ciudad Real
- Cuenca
- Girona
- Guadalajara
- Huelva
- Huesca
- Jaén
- León
- Lleida
- Lugo
- Ourense
- Palencia
- Segovia
- Soria
- Tarragona
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Zamora