ClimavisoBad weather in Palma
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
Palma gets far more warnings than Spain's average, but almost none are serious: in the last eight years, a single red day.
78
warning days a year
Spain: 54
15
orange or red warning days
a year
1
red days
2019–2025
#23
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
Palma's zone, southern Mallorca, is among Spain's most-warned zones. It gets a bit of everything: rain, storms, wind and heat in nearly equal parts, and even cold warnings, because here yellow starts at lows of just −1 °C.
The twist is severity: nearly everything is yellow. The only red day was for storms, on 13 September 2019. Lots of warnings, few scares.
Palma has 434,786 inhabitants and sits in the Sur de Mallorca warning zone (Mallorca). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 3 other towns, such as Llucmajor, Marratxí and Santa Ponça.
Palma's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Palma gets the warnings for the Sur de Mallorca 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.
- Sur de Mallorca (Palma's zone): 78 days a year
- Levante mallorquín: 57 days a year
- Sierra Tramontana: 69 days a year
- Norte y nordeste de Mallorca: 71 days a year
- Interior de Mallorca: 80 days a year
Palma's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in Palma'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 (3.4×), cold (1.7×) and rain (1.6×).
Fewer than average: snow.
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 Palma, 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 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 6.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 1.0 |
| Storms | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 6.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 0.3 |
| Wind | 3.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | |||
| Heat | 3.1 | 9.4 | 7.6 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Cold | 4.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Snow | 0.1 | |||||||||||
| Fog | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 |
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
9.0 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: cold and wind.
February
5.3 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and cold.
March
4.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.
April
3.3 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and storms.
May
The quietest month2.3 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
June
5.3 warning days on average (1.1 orange or red). Mostly: heat and rain.
July
11 warning days on average (1.6 orange or red). Mostly: heat and rain.
August
The busiest month10 warning days on average (3.0 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
1 red day since 20197.7 warning days on average (3.3 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
October
5.7 warning days on average (1.9 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
November
7.3 warning days on average (2.0 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.
December
6.6 warning days on average (0.9 orange or red). Mostly: wind and fog.
The best month to go (if you'd rather not see warnings)
Counting warning days and how serious they are, the quietest months in Palma are May and April: 2.3 and 3.3 warning days on average. The busiest is August, with 10.
May and April are the quietest months: a good time before summer.
Summers: the heat
Palma has 20 heat-warning days a year (3.3 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 24 June to 22 August. The earliest one came on 13 June; the latest, on 13 September.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 21 warning days on average: rain (2.4), storms (0.7), wind (9.4), cold (5.9) and fog (3.9).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −1 °C; red, at −8 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
Rain and storms
Palma has 30 rain-warning days and 21 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, October and November.
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: 13 September 2019.
Wind, fog and coast
Wind warnings: 19 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Fog: 4.0 days a year, always yellow (fog has no higher level).
Wind brings almost as many warnings as heat: if you sail, check the forecast before heading out.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 77 | 16 | 0 | heat and rain |
| 2025 | 79 | 15 | 0 | rain and storms |
| 2024 | 76 | 22 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2023 | 87 | 17 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2022 | 93 | 15 | 0 | heat and rain |
| 2021 | 70 | 12 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2020 | 68 | 13 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2019 | 71 | 10 | 1 | wind and rain |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 63 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2022, with 93 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 13 September 2019 storms
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 15 days, from 8 July 2026 to 22 July 2026.
When a warning is issued in Palma
| Yellow | Orange | Red | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat (high) | 36 °C | 39 °C | 42 °C |
| Cold (low) | −1 °C | −4 °C | −8 °C |
| Wind (gusts) | 70 km/h | 90 km/h | 120 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 Sur de Mallorca 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.
Palma 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 Palma or are thinking of moving
- With 15 orange or red days a year, serious warnings are part of the calendar: it pays to know when they come.
- You'll see warnings often, but nearly always yellow: worth reading without panic.
- August and September are the busiest months, with heat, storms and rain.
- If you go sailing, wind and sea warnings matter more than on land.
In short
A city of frequent, mostly mild warnings. Lots of yellow noise and very little red.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in Palma?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and October. On average there are 30 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit Palma?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, May and April: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in Palma?
Yes, one since June 2018: on 13 September 2019 (storms).
Does it get very hot in Palma?
There are 20 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 Palma
- Palma's warnings day by day since 2018
- The Sur de Mallorca zone
- Today's and tomorrow's warnings in Mallorca
- How the year is going across Spain
- How warnings work
- Palma vs Ibiza
Other cities
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- València
- Sevilla
- Zaragoza
- Málaga
- Bilbao
- Alicante
- Gijón
- Avilés
- Murcia
- 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
- León
- Lleida
- Lugo
- Ourense
- Palencia
- Segovia
- Soria
- Tarragona
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Zamora