ClimavisoBad weather in Córdoba
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
Córdoba is the capital of the heat warning. No city on this list has more, or more orange and red ones: summer here is measured not in days but in weeks of warnings.
73
warning days a year
Spain: 54
29
orange or red warning days
a year
15
red days
2019–2025
#34
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
The Córdoba countryside leads Spain in heat warnings, and that with one of the highest bars: yellow needs 38 °C, red 44. Even so, July has a warning on most days.
Warnings can run for weeks: from 7 July to 6 August 2022, Córdoba had a warning every single day. The rest of the year, by contrast, is quiet.
Córdoba has 323,262 inhabitants and sits in the Campiña cordobesa warning zone (Córdoba). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 4 other towns, such as Palma del Río, Fernán Núñez and Montoro.
Córdoba's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Córdoba gets the warnings for the Campiña cordobesa 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.
- Campiña cordobesa (Córdoba's zone): 73 days a year
- Nevada y Alpujarras: 20 days a year
- Axarquía: 26 days a year
- Antequera: 27 days a year
- Sierra sur de Sevilla: 31 days a year
- Grazalema: 33 days a year
- Sur de Badajoz: 37 days a year
- Subbética cordobesa: 40 days a year
- Sierra norte de Sevilla: 40 days a year
- Barros y Serena: 42 days a year
- Sierras de Alcudia y Madrona: 43 days a year
- Capital y Montes de Jaén: 43 days a year
- Sierra y Pedroches: 46 days a year
- Valle del Guadiana: 50 days a year
- Cuenca del Genil: 56 days a year
- Morena y Condado: 57 days a year
- La Mancha de Ciudad Real: 57 days a year
- Vegas del Guadiana: 57 days a year
- Valle del Guadalquivir de Jaén: 59 days a year
- Campiña sevillana: 69 days a year
Córdoba's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in Córdoba'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: heat (3.3×) and cold (1.6×).
Fewer than average: snow, fog and wind.
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 Córdoba, 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 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.1 | |
| Storms | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||
| Wind | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | ||||
| Heat | 0.1 | 1.4 | 8.3 | 21 | 18 | 1.7 | ||||||
| Cold | 4.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 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
4.9 warning days on average. Mostly: cold and rain.
February
1.6 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: cold and rain.
March
2.7 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and storms.
April
The quietest month1.6 warning days on average. Mostly: storms and rain.
May
2.6 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
June
1 red day since 20199.3 warning days on average (5.0 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
July
The busiest month6 red days since 201921 warning days on average (13 orange or red). Mostly: heat.
August
8 red days since 201919 warning days on average (9.7 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
4.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and heat.
October
2.4 warning days on average (0.7 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
November
1.9 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
December
2.0 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and wind.
The best month to go (if you'd rather not see warnings)
Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Córdoba are April and February: 1.6 and 1.6 warning days on average. The busiest is July, with 21.
April and February are the quietest months: Córdoba's spring, the season of the patios, arrives before the heat.
Summers: the heat
Córdoba has 51 heat-warning days a year (27 of them orange or red). Yellow starts at a forecast high of 38 °C; orange at 40 °C; red at 44 °C.
The heat-warning season usually runs from 28 May to 7 September. The earliest one came on 27 April; the latest, on 29 September.
Red heat days since 2019: 13 August 2021, 14 August 2021, 15 August 2021, 14 July 2022, 23 July 2022, 24 July 2022, 25 July 2022, 26 June 2023, 10 July 2023, 17 July 2023, 8 August 2023, 9 August 2023, 11 August 2023, 12 August 2025, 17 August 2025 and 23 June 2026.
The heat season can start in late April and end in late September. In high summer, orange is almost the norm.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 8.4 warning days on average: rain (1.9), wind (1.3) and cold (5.9).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −1 °C; red, at −8 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
Rain and storms
Córdoba has 11 rain-warning days and 8.4 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are October, November and March.
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: 3.1 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 84 | 38 | 1 | heat and storms |
| 2025 | 97 | 40 | 2 | heat and rain |
| 2024 | 73 | 27 | 0 | heat and rain |
| 2023 | 95 | 34 | 6 | heat and cold |
| 2022 | 70 | 33 | 4 | heat and rain |
| 2021 | 54 | 10 | 3 | heat and cold |
| 2020 | 68 | 33 | 0 | heat and storms |
| 2019 | 53 | 11 | 0 | heat and rain |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 69 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2025, with 97 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 23 June 2026 heat
- 17 August 2025 heat
- 12 August 2025 heat
- 11 August 2023 heat
- 9 August 2023 heat
- 8 August 2023 heat
- 17 July 2023 heat
- 10 July 2023 heat
- 26 June 2023 heat
- 25 July 2022 heat
- 24 July 2022 heat
- 23 July 2022 heat
- 14 July 2022 heat
- 15 August 2021 heat
- 14 August 2021 heat
- 13 August 2021 heat
- 4 August 2018 heat
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 31 days, from 7 July 2022 to 6 August 2022.
When a warning is issued in Córdoba
| Yellow | Orange | Red | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat (high) | 38 °C | 40 °C | 44 °C |
| Cold (low) | −1 °C | −4 °C | −8 °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 Campiña cordobesa 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.
Córdoba 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 Córdoba or are thinking of moving
- With 29 orange or red days a year, serious warnings are part of the calendar: it pays to know when they come.
- Summer rules: insulation, air conditioning and a life that adapts to the hours of sun.
- Orange and red heat warnings every summer: sign up for the warnings.
- From October to May, warnings are few.
In short
The heat city, no contest. If you can take it, the rest of the year is a gift.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in Córdoba?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are October and November. On average there are 11 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit Córdoba?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, April and February: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in Córdoba?
Yes: 17 red days since June 2018, the latest on 23 June 2026 (heat).
Does it get very hot in Córdoba?
There are 51 heat-warning days a year on average. The yellow warning here starts at a forecast high of 38 °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 Córdoba
- Camino Mozárabe weather, stage by stage
- Córdoba's warnings day by day since 2018
- The Campiña cordobesa zone
- Today's and tomorrow's warnings in Córdoba
- How the year is going across Spain
- How warnings work
- Sevilla vs Córdoba
- Córdoba vs Granada
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
- 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