ClimavisoBad weather in León
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
León is winter Meseta: January is its busiest month, for cold and fog, and no red warning in the last eight years.
50
warning days a year
Spain: 54
3.6
orange or red warning days
a year
0
red days
2019–2025
#110
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
The León plateau spreads its warnings across storms, rain, wind, cold and fog. Heat, on the other hand, barely counts: it is one of the least frequent reasons.
January is the month with most warnings, for frost and fog; June follows, with early-summer storms. Between late May and early June 2023 warnings ran for days on end. Nearly all of it is yellow: in the last eight years, no red.
León has 123,446 inhabitants and sits in the Meseta de León warning zone (León). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 6 other towns, such as San Andrés del Rabanedo, Villaquilambre and Astorga.
León's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: León gets the warnings for the Meseta de León 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.
- Meseta de León (León's zone): 50 days a year
- Central y Valles Mineros: 26 days a year
- Valdeorras: 28 days a year
- Bierzo de León: 37 days a year
- Montaña de Ourense: 42 days a year
- Montaña de Lugo: 43 days a year
- Suroccidental asturiana: 48 days a year
- Cantabria del Ebro: 56 days a year
- Centro y valle de Villaverde: 56 days a year
- Meseta de Palencia: 59 days a year
- Meseta de Segovia: 60 days a year
- Sanabria: 62 days a year
- Meseta de Zamora: 63 days a year
- Meseta de Burgos: 64 days a year
- Liébana: 65 days a year
- Meseta de Valladolid: 65 days a year
- Cordillera Cantábrica de Burgos: 67 days a year
- Cordillera y Picos de Europa: 69 days a year
- Cordillera Cantábrica de Palencia: 73 days a year
- Cordillera Cantábrica de León: 82 days a year
León's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in León'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: fog (6.9×) and cold (2.5×).
Fewer than average: heat, rain 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 León, 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 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | ||||
| Storms | 1.6 | 2.6 | 5.6 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 1.7 | ||||||
| Wind | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.3 | |
| Heat | 0.6 | 1.7 | 3.4 | |||||||||
| Cold | 5.7 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Snow | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Fog | 4.4 | 0.7 | 3.0 |
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 month12 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: cold and fog.
February
3.7 warning days on average. Mostly: cold and wind.
March
2.3 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: wind and cold.
April
The quietest month1.9 warning days on average. Mostly: storms and rain.
May
3.0 warning days on average. Mostly: storms and rain.
June
6.1 warning days on average (0.6 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.
July
4.3 warning days on average (1.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and heat.
August
4.9 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
2.3 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and storms.
October
2.0 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.
November
2.4 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and fog.
December
4.6 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: fog 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 León are April and September: 1.9 and 2.3 warning days on average. The busiest is January, with 12.
April and September are the quietest months.
Summers: the heat
León has 5.7 heat-warning days a year (0.7 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 27 July to 11 August. The earliest one came on 14 June; the latest, on 24 August.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 20 warning days on average: wind (4.0), cold (8.9), snow (2.4) and fog (7.4).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −6 °C; red, at −14 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
The cold warning needs lows of −6 °C: only hard frosts count, and January still fills up with them.
Rain and storms
León has 12 rain-warning days and 16 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: 9.6 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Fog: 8.1 days a year, always yellow (fog has no higher level).
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 48 | 3 | 0 | storms and heat |
| 2025 | 52 | 4 | 0 | storms and rain |
| 2024 | 44 | 3 | 0 | fog and storms |
| 2023 | 76 | 2 | 0 | cold and rain |
| 2022 | 48 | 5 | 0 | heat and storms |
| 2021 | 39 | 0 | 0 | cold and storms |
| 2020 | 50 | 3 | 0 | storms and rain |
| 2019 | 38 | 8 | 0 | storms and wind |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 42 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2023, with 76 days.
The worst days
León 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 11 days, from 26 May 2023 to 5 June 2023.
When a warning is issued in León
| Yellow | Orange | Red | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat (high) | 36 °C | 39 °C | 42 °C |
| Cold (low) | −6 °C | −10 °C | −14 °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 Meseta de León 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.
León 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 León or are thinking of moving
- With 3.6 orange or red days a year, a serious warning is rare, but not unheard of.
- In winter, fog and frost: plan for them on early drives.
- June brings the storms: keep an eye on the afternoon forecast.
- Few heat warnings and no red in the last eight years.
In short
A city of moderate warnings, more winter than summer, with no extremes.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in León?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are June and May. On average there are 12 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit León?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, April and September: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in León?
No. Since June 2018 there hasn't been a single red warning in León's zone.
Does it get very hot in León?
There are 5.7 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 León
- Camino Francés weather, stage by stage
- Camino del Salvador weather, stage by stage
- León's warnings day by day since 2018
- The Meseta de León zone
- Today's and tomorrow's warnings in León
- 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
- Ávila
- Badajoz
- Burgos
- Cáceres
- Ciudad Real
- Cuenca
- Girona
- Guadalajara
- Huelva
- Huesca
- Jaén
- Lleida
- Lugo
- Ourense
- Palencia
- Segovia
- Soria
- Tarragona
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Zamora