Bad weather in Burgos

Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.

Burgos splits its warnings between winter and early-summer storms, nearly always at yellow.

On the Meseta de Burgos, storms are the top reason for a warning, ahead of rain, wind, heat and cold. The busiest months are January and June: one for cold and snow, the other for storms.

Extremes are rare. In the last eight years there was only one red warning, for cold, in January 2021, during the Filomena days; that month warnings ran back to back from 11 to 23 January.

Burgos has 177,402 inhabitants and sits in the Meseta de Burgos warning zone (Burgos). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 2 other towns, such as Aranda de Duero and Lerma.

Burgos's warning zone and its neighbours

AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Burgos gets the warnings for the Meseta de Burgos zone, outlined on the map. The zones around it have their own thresholds and their own warnings.

• Meseta de Burgos (Burgos's zone): 64 days a year
• Rioja alavesa: 40 days a year
• Bizkaia interior: 41 days a year
• Cuenca del Nervión: 45 days a year
• Condado de Treviño: 45 days a year
• Meseta de León: 50 days a year
• Meseta de Ávila: 52 days a year
• Llanada alavesa: 52 days a year
• Cantabria del Ebro: 56 days a year
• Centro y valle de Villaverde: 56 days a year
• Alcarria de Guadalajara: 57 days a year
• Ribera del Ebro de La Rioja: 58 days a year
• Meseta de Palencia: 59 days a year
• Meseta de Segovia: 60 days a year
• Norte de Burgos: 63 days a year
• Liébana: 65 days a year
• Meseta de Valladolid: 65 days a year
• Sistema Central de Soria: 67 days a year
• Cordillera Cantábrica de Burgos: 67 days a year
• Serranía de Guadalajara: 68 days a year
• Meseta de Soria: 69 days a year
• Cordillera y Picos de Europa: 69 days a year
• Cordillera Cantábrica de Palencia: 73 days a year
• Sistema Central de Segovia: 74 days a year
• Ibérica riojana: 78 days a year
• Sierra de Madrid: 78 days a year
• Ibérica de Burgos: 80 days a year
• Cordillera Cantábrica de León: 82 days a year
• Ibérica de Soria: 85 days a year

Burgos's bad-weather fingerprint

Each axis compares the warning days a year in Burgos'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.

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 Burgos, 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

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

The best month to go (if you'd rather not see warnings)

Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Burgos are April and October: 2.3 and 2.3 warning days on average. The busiest is January, with 14.

April and October are the quietest months.

Summers: the heat

Burgos has 11 heat-warning days a year (1.6 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 10 July to 12 August. The earliest one came on 13 June; the latest, on 24 August.

Winters: cold, snow and wind

Winter (December to February) brings 23 warning days on average: wind (5.4), cold (8.4), snow (4.1) and fog (6.3).

The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −6 °C; red, at −14 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.

Red cold or snow days since 2019: 12 January 2021.

The cold warning needs lows of −6 °C, and snow triggers yellow at 2 cm in 24 hours. January is the month with the most warnings.

Rain and storms

Burgos has 14 rain-warning days and 22 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are June, May and September.

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: 13 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.

Fog: 6.4 days a year, always yellow (fog has no higher level).

June is the year's second peak, more for storms than for heat.

Year by year

2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 56 days.

The year with the most warnings was 2025, with 79 days.

The worst days

Every red day since June 2018:

• 12 January 2021 cold

The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 13 days, from 11 January 2021 to 23 January 2021.

When a warning is issued in Burgos

Thresholds for the Meseta de Burgos 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.

Burgos compared with other cities

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 Burgos or are thinking of moving

• With 6.6 orange or red days a year, serious warnings come a few times a year, nearly always in the same seasons.
• In winter, plan for frost, snow and fog on early drives.
• June brings storms: check the warnings before outdoor plans.
• Heat brings summer warnings, but fewer than in most southern cities.

In short

A zone of frequent but moderate warnings, where winter is what needs the most attention.

Frequently asked questions

When does it rain most in Burgos?

Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are June and May. On average there are 14 rain-warning days a year.

What's the best month to visit Burgos?

If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, April and October: they have the fewest warning days on average.

Have there been red warnings in Burgos?

Yes, one since June 2018: on 12 January 2021 (cold).

Does it get very hot in Burgos?

There are 11 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 Burgos

• Camino Francés weather, stage by stage
• Ruta de la Lana weather, stage by stage
• Camino del Cid weather, stretch by stretch
• Burgos's warnings day by day since 2018
• The Meseta de Burgos zone
• Today's and tomorrow's warnings in Burgos
• How the year is going across Spain
• How warnings work

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