Bad weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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

Las Palmas is one of the Spanish cities with the fewest warnings and hasn't had a single red warning in the last eight years. Among its most typical warnings is a very Canarian one: calima dust.

warning days a year

Spain: 54

2.9

orange or red warning days

a year

red days

2019–2025

#175

of 182 zones

1 = most warnings

Northern Gran Canaria is among Spain's calmest zones. What comes is varied and mild: heat, wind, some rain and, very Canarian, suspended-dust warnings when the calima blows in from the Sahara.

Heat has no fixed season here: warnings come anywhere from April to October, sometimes arriving with the calima. The mainland summer of weeks-long warnings simply doesn't exist.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has 381,868 inhabitants and sits in the Norte de Gran Canaria warning zone (Gran Canaria). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 9 other towns, such as Arucas, Gáldar and Santa Brígida.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's warning zone and its neighbours

AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gets the warnings for the Norte de Gran Canaria 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.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's bad-weather fingerprint

Each axis compares the warning days a year in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria'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

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3.0Jan 2.6Feb 3.1Mar 1.1Apr 0.1May 0.6Jun 3.1Jul 4.0Aug 1.7Sep 2.3Oct 1.9Nov 2.9Dec

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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 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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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec202631202525202421202332202241202121202028201917

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	0.7	0.4	1.7	0.3		0.1			0.6	0.4	1.0	1.1
Storms	0.4	0.4	0.3					0.3	0.3		0.4	0.4
Wind	1.6	1.4	1.1	0.9	0.1	0.1	0.6			0.1	0.4	1.3
Heat				0.1		0.3	2.7	3.7	1.0	1.6
Dust	1.7	1.3	0.6				0.3	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.7

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

3.0 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: dust and wind.

February

2.6 warning days on average. Mostly: wind and dust.

March

3.1 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.

April

1.1 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.

May

The quietest month

Warnings are rare.

June

0.6 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: heat and rain.

July

3.1 warning days on average. Mostly: heat and wind.

August

The busiest month

4.0 warning days on average (1.6 orange or red). Mostly: heat and dust.

September

1.7 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: heat and rain.

October

2.3 warning days on average. Mostly: heat and rain.

November

1.9 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.

December

2.9 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are May and June: 0.1 and 0.6 warning days on average. The busiest is August, with 4.0.

May and June have the fewest warnings: island weather at its calmest.

Summers: the heat

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has 9.4 heat-warning days a year (1.7 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 September. The earliest one came on 11 April; the latest, on 14 October.

Winters: cold, snow and wind

Winter (December to February) brings 8.4 warning days on average: rain (2.3), storms (1.3), wind (4.3) and dust (3.7).

The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −1 °C; red, at −8 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.

Rain and storms

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has 6.4 rain-warning days and 2.6 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are March, December and November.

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

Calima is the Canary Islands' signature: dust in suspension from the Sahara. In the last eight years, its warnings have been yellow.

Year by year

Year	Warning days	Orange	Mostly
2026*	31	3	wind and dust
2025	25	6	heat and rain
2024	21	0	wind and storms
2023	32	4	heat and dust
2022	41	3	dust and wind
2021	21	5	rain and wind
2020	28	2	wind and heat
2019	17	0	heat and rain

2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 22 days.

The year with the most warnings was 2022, with 41 days.

The worst days

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria hasn't had a single red warning since the archive starts, in June 2018. Its worst level has been orange.

The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 8 days, from 4 October 2023 to 11 October 2023.

When a warning is issued in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

	Yellow	Orange	Red
Heat (high)	34 °C	37 °C	40 °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 Norte de Gran Canaria 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.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or are thinking of moving

With 2.9 orange or red days a year, a serious warning is rare, but not unheard of.
If you're fleeing warnings, few Spanish cities make it this easy.
Mind the calima: days of heavy air and heat that can bother anyone with breathing problems.
Wind is, with heat, the most frequent warning.

In short

Among the calmest places in Spain, with calima instead of storms. A good place to forget about warnings.

Frequently asked questions

When does it rain most in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?

Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are March and December. On average there are 6.4 rain-warning days a year.

What's the best month to visit Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?

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

Have there been red warnings in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?

No. Since June 2018 there hasn't been a single red warning in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's zone.

Does it get very hot in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?

There are 9.4 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.