Bad weather in Murcia

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

Murcia is heat with a splash of water: heat is its top reason for a warning, and when it rains hard, it really rains.

warning days a year

Spain: 54

orange or red warning days

a year

red days

2019–2025

#123

of 182 zones

1 = most warnings

The Segura valley is a land of long summers. Heat warnings top the city's list, with a high bar (yellow needs 38 °C), and July and August still fill up with them.

The other side is water: summer storms and torrential late-summer and autumn rain. The September 2019 DANA put Murcia on red for rain and storms two days running.

Murcia has 479,405 inhabitants and sits in the Vega del Segura warning zone (Murcia). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 14 other towns, such as Molina de Segura, Alcantarilla and Cieza.

Murcia's warning zone and its neighbours

AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Murcia gets the warnings for the Vega del Segura 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.

Murcia's bad-weather fingerprint

Each axis compares the warning days a year in Murcia'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 (1.4×).

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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1.7Jan 0.6Feb 3.0Mar 2.3Apr 3.9May 5.4Jun 9.7Jul 10Aug 4.1Sep 2.3Oct 1.4Nov 1.0Dec

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 Murcia, 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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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec202669202561202442202353202249202139202036201940

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			2.0	1.6	2.7	2.0	0.6	1.1	3.6	2.1	0.7	0.7
Storms			0.3	1.4	3.3	2.6	1.0	1.4	3.9	1.3	0.6	0.3
Wind	1.7	0.6	0.7					0.1		0.1	0.7	0.3
Heat						3.0	9.1	9.0	0.1

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

1.7 warning days on average. Mostly: wind.

February

The quietest month

0.6 warning days on average. Mostly: wind.

March

3.0 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and wind.

April

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

May

3.9 warning days on average (1.0 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.

June

5.4 warning days on average (0.9 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

July

4 red days since 2019

9.7 warning days on average (3.7 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

August

The busiest month4 red days since 2019

10 warning days on average (4.0 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

September

2 red days since 2019

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

October

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

November

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

December

1 red day since 2019

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

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

Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Murcia are February and January: 0.6 and 1.7 warning days on average. The busiest is August, with 10.

January and February are the quietest months: a Murcian winter barely issues a warning.

Summers: the heat

Murcia has 21 heat-warning days a year (7.3 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 27 June to 26 August. The earliest one came on 7 June; the latest, on 9 September.

Red heat days since 2019: 12 July 2021, 15 August 2021, 25 July 2022, 12 July 2023, 19 July 2023, 10 August 2023, 17 August 2025, 18 August 2025 and 23 July 2026.

Yellow needing 38 °C says a lot: the warning plan sets the bar by what's usual in each zone, and here it's among the highest in Spain.

Winters: cold, snow and wind

Winter (December to February) brings 3.3 warning days on average: rain (0.7) and wind (2.6).

The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −4 °C; red, at −12 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.

Rain and storms

Murcia has 17 rain-warning days and 16 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, May and October.

Here the yellow rain warning starts at 15 mm in an hour or 60 mm in 12 hours; red, at 60 mm or 180 mm.

Red rain or storm days since 2019: 12 September 2019, 13 September 2019 and 28 December 2025.

Wind, fog and coast

Wind warnings: 4.3 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.

Year by year

Year	Warning days	Orange	Red	Mostly
2026*	69	19	1	heat and rain
2025	61	17	3	heat and rain
2024	42	13	0	heat and storms
2023	53	14	3	storms and heat
2022	49	8	1	heat and rain
2021	39	12	2	heat and rain
2020	36	7	0	heat and storms
2019	40	10	2	heat and rain

2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 43 days.

The year with the most warnings was 2025, with 61 days.

The worst days

Every red day since June 2018:

23 July 2026 heat
28 December 2025 rain
18 August 2025 heat
17 August 2025 heat
10 August 2023 heat
19 July 2023 heat
12 July 2023 heat
25 July 2022 heat
15 August 2021 heat
12 July 2021 heat
13 September 2019 rain storms
12 September 2019 rain storms

The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 12 days, from 14 July 2026 to 25 July 2026.

When a warning is issued in Murcia

	Yellow	Orange	Red
Heat (high)	38 °C	40 °C	44 °C
Cold (low)	−4 °C	−8 °C	−12 °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	60 mm	100 mm	180 mm
Snow in 24 hours	2 cm	5 cm	20 cm

Thresholds for the Vega del Segura 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.

Murcia 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 Murcia or are thinking of moving

With 13 orange or red days a year, serious warnings are part of the calendar: it pays to know when they come.
Summer is what you plan around: a cool home, air conditioning and morning schedules.
Late summer and autumn bring the heavy rain: ask whether your street or garage floods.
In winter you'll hardly see a warning.

In short

A heat city with the occasional water scare. Ten easy months and a summer that demands respect.

Frequently asked questions

When does it rain most in Murcia?

Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and May. On average there are 17 rain-warning days a year.

What's the best month to visit Murcia?

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

Have there been red warnings in Murcia?

Yes: 12 red days since June 2018, the latest on 23 July 2026 (heat).

Does it get very hot in Murcia?

There are 21 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.