Bad weather in Cuenca

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

Cuenca is among Spain's busiest warning zones: heat and storms in summer, cold and snow in winter.

warning days a year

Spain: 54

orange or red warning days

a year

red days

2019–2025

#11

of 182 zones

1 = most warnings

The Serranía de Cuenca gathers more warnings than almost any other zone in the country. Heat tops the list, followed closely by storms and rain, and July and August are the busiest months.

In summer 2022 warnings ran without a single day off from early July to mid-August. Heat reached red in August 2021 and August 2023, and cold did in January 2021, during the Filomena days.

Cuenca has 53,600 inhabitants and sits in the Serranía de Cuenca warning zone (Cuenca). Warnings are issued for the whole zone.

Cuenca's warning zone and its neighbours

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

Fewer warnings than averageClose to averageMore warnings than average

Average warning days a year, 2019–2025, against the median of Spain's zones (54 days). Tap a zone to go to its page.

Cuenca's bad-weather fingerprint

Each axis compares the warning days a year in Cuenca'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: cold (3.2×), heat (2.1×) and snow (1.9×).

Fewer than average: wind.

Averages for 2019–2025. It measures how often AEMET issued warnings, not danger or damage.

The year, month by month

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12Jan 2.9Feb 4.0Mar 2.6Apr 3.1May 10Jun 18Jul 18Aug 6.0Sep 3.4Oct 2.0Nov 4.4Dec

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 Cuenca, 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.

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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2026982025972024822023103202284202179202073201980

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	1.4	2.3	4.9	1.9	3.6	5.3	2.7	0.3	0.6
Storms			0.6	1.6	2.9	5.9	4.1	5.1	5.1	1.7
Wind	1.7	1.1	1.0	0.3	0.1			0.3	0.3	1.0	0.9	1.6
Heat					0.1	4.4	14	14	0.4
Cold	8.6	1.4	0.7									1.4
Snow	1.6	0.6	2.1	0.7							0.4	1.1
Fog	0.3										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

1 red day since 2019

12 warning days on average (1.7 orange or red). Mostly: cold and wind.

February

2.9 warning days on average. Mostly: cold and wind.

March

4.0 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: snow and wind.

April

2.6 warning days on average. Mostly: storms and rain.

May

3.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.

June

10 warning days on average (2.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.

July

The busiest month

18 warning days on average (4.3 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

August

2 red days since 2019

18 warning days on average (3.9 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

September

6.0 warning days on average (0.7 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.

October

3.4 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.

November

The quietest month

2.0 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and snow.

December

4.4 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: wind and cold.

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

Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Cuenca are November and April: 2.0 and 2.6 warning days on average. The busiest is July, with 18.

April and November are the quietest months.

Summers: the heat

Cuenca has 33 heat-warning days a year (7.9 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 25 June to 24 August. The earliest one came on 30 May; the latest, on 19 September.

Red heat days since 2019: 14 August 2021 and 9 August 2023.

Being a mountain zone, the heat threshold is low: yellow needs 34 °C. That's why summer warnings are so frequent.

Winters: cold, snow and wind

Winter (December to February) brings 19 warning days on average: rain (0.6), wind (4.4), cold (11), snow (3.3) and fog (0.9).

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.

In winter the bar is higher than on the plains: cold needs lows of −6 °C and snow 5 cm in 24 hours. January is the year's other peak.

Rain and storms

Cuenca has 23 rain-warning days and 27 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: 8.3 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 80 km/h.

Fog: 1.3 days a year, always yellow (fog has no higher level).

Year by year

Year	Warning days	Orange	Red	Mostly
2026*	98	18	0	heat and storms
2025	97	19	0	storms and heat
2024	82	13	0	heat and rain
2023	103	18	1	heat and storms
2022	84	13	0	heat and storms
2021	79	19	2	heat and storms
2020	73	7	0	heat and storms
2019	80	8	0	heat and rain

2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 78 days.

The year with the most warnings was 2023, with 103 days.

The worst days

Every red day since June 2018:

9 August 2023 heat
14 August 2021 heat
12 January 2021 cold

The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 36 days, from 9 July 2022 to 13 August 2022.

When a warning is issued in Cuenca

	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 Serranía de Cuenca 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.

Cuenca 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 Cuenca 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.
Summer is warning season: heat and storms almost daily.
In winter, plan for frost and snow if you travel through the mountains.
Spring and autumn are the quiet months.

In short

One of Spain's busiest warning zones, with mountain thresholds: the heat warning trips sooner than on the plains.

Frequently asked questions

When does it rain most in Cuenca?

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 Cuenca?

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

Have there been red warnings in Cuenca?

Yes: 3 red days since June 2018, the latest on 9 August 2023 (heat).

Does it get very hot in Cuenca?

There are 33 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.