ClimavisoBad weather in Tarragona
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
Tarragona is sea and water: rain is its top reason for a warning, and in the last eight years its red warnings have all been for rain.
49
warning days a year
Spain: 54
8.7
orange or red warning days
a year
2
red days
2019–2025
#112
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
The northern Tarragona coast faces the sea, and its warnings show it: rain, storms and wind, with a little heat. Over the last 7 years, cold and snow have not been among its reasons for a warning.
The heavy season is late summer and autumn: September is its busiest month and August the second. The zone's red warnings in the last eight years have been for rain: on 22 and 23 October 2019 and on 22 August 2026.
Tarragona has 143,649 inhabitants and sits in the Litoral norte de Tarragona warning zone (Tarragona). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 7 other towns, such as Reus, el Vendrell and Calafell.
Tarragona's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Tarragona gets the warnings for the Litoral norte de Tarragona 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.
- Litoral norte de Tarragona (Tarragona's zone): 49 days a year
- Litoral de Barcelona: 54 days a year
- Prelitoral norte de Tarragona: 56 days a year
- Prelitoral de Barcelona: 56 days a year
- Depresión central de Tarragona: 66 days a year
- Depresión central de Barcelona: 72 days a year
- Litoral sur de Tarragona: 74 days a year
- Sur de Huesca: 85 days a year
- Depresión central de Lleida: 92 days a year
- Prelitoral sur de Tarragona: 94 days a year
Tarragona's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in Tarragona'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: rain (1.5×).
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
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 Tarragona, 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 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 8.0 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 1.6 |
| Storms | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.7 | ||
| Wind | 3.4 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 3.9 | |||
| Heat | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | |||||||||
| Cold | 0.1 | |||||||||||
| Snow | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||||||
| Fog | 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
3.7 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.
February
2.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.
March
2.6 warning days on average (0.1 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.
April
3.0 warning days on average. Mostly: wind and storms.
May
The quietest month2.4 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and storms.
June
2.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
July
3.1 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and heat.
August
6.7 warning days on average (1.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
September
The busiest month8.6 warning days on average (2.7 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
October
2 red days since 20195.0 warning days on average (0.7 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
November
4.6 warning days on average (1.6 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.
December
5.1 warning days on average (0.7 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 Tarragona are May and February: 2.4 and 2.1 warning days on average. The busiest is September, with 8.6.
May and February are the quietest months.
Summers: the heat
Tarragona has 4.0 heat-warning days a year (0.3 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 15 July to 12 August. The earliest one came on 26 June; the latest, on 24 August.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 11 warning days on average: rain (2.3), storms (0.9) and wind (9.1).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −1 °C; red, at −8 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
Rain and storms
Tarragona has 28 rain-warning days and 18 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, August and October.
Here the yellow rain warning starts at 20 mm in an hour or 60 mm in 12 hours; red, at 90 mm or 180 mm.
Red rain or storm days since 2019: 22 October 2019, 23 October 2019 and 22 August 2026.
The rain thresholds are high: yellow needs 20 mm in one hour or 60 mm in 12 hours, and red 90 mm in one hour or 180 mm in 12. When a warning fires, it is a lot of water.
Wind, fog and coast
Wind warnings: 17 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 63 | 16 | 1 | rain and heat |
| 2025 | 54 | 11 | 0 | rain and storms |
| 2024 | 59 | 13 | 0 | rain and storms |
| 2023 | 41 | 5 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2022 | 39 | 4 | 0 | rain and storms |
| 2021 | 53 | 11 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2020 | 52 | 7 | 0 | rain and wind |
| 2019 | 46 | 8 | 2 | wind and rain |
2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 39 days.
The year with the most warnings was 2024, with 59 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 22 August 2026 rain
- 23 October 2019 rain
- 22 October 2019 rain
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 12 days, from 25 October 2024 to 5 November 2024.
When a warning is issued in Tarragona
| 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 | 20 mm | 40 mm | 90 mm |
| Rain in 12 hours | 60 mm | 100 mm | 180 mm |
| Snow in 24 hours | 2 cm | 5 cm | 20 cm |
Thresholds for the Litoral norte de Tarragona 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.
Tarragona 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 Tarragona or are thinking of moving
- With 8.7 orange or red days a year, serious warnings come a few times a year, nearly always in the same seasons.
- Late summer and autumn bring the heavy rain: ask whether your street, ground floor or garage floods.
- Wind also triggers warnings often, especially if you sail or live on the seafront.
- Winter barely issues cold or snow warnings.
In short
A city of water warnings: calm for much of the year, with a late summer and autumn that call for attention.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in Tarragona?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and August. On average there are 28 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit Tarragona?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, May and February: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in Tarragona?
Yes: 3 red days since June 2018, the latest on 22 August 2026 (rain).
Does it get very hot in Tarragona?
There are 4.0 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.
More on Tarragona
- EuroVelo 8 weather, stage by stage
- Tarragona's warnings day by day since 2018
- The Litoral norte de Tarragona zone
- Today's and tomorrow's warnings in Tarragona
- 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
- León
- Lleida
- Lugo
- Ourense
- Palencia
- Segovia
- Soria
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Zamora