ClimavisoBad weather in València
Updated 26 October 2026. Averages for 2019–2025; 2026 up to 26 October 2026.
València has fewer warning days than a typical Spanish zone. But if its bad weather had to fit in one word it would be "autumn", and in one date, the DANA of 29 October 2024.
51
warning days a year
Spain: 54
12
orange or red warning days
a year
13
red days
2019–2025
#104
of 182 zones
1 = most warnings
For most of the year, València is a quiet city as far as warnings go. Summer brings its share of heat and storms, but the key moment comes between September and November, when a still-warm Mediterranean feeds torrential rain. Most of the zone's red rain warnings come in that season.
Since the 2024 DANA, orange and red rain warnings have also become more frequent than before, and 2025 was one of the years with the most warning days. We can't tell whether it rains harder or warnings are issued more cautiously.
València has 840,792 inhabitants and sits in the Litoral norte de Valencia warning zone (València/Valencia). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 93 other towns, such as Paterna, Sagunt / Sagunto and Mislata.
València's warning zone and its neighbours
AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: València gets the warnings for the Litoral norte de Valencia 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 Valencia (València's zone): 51 days a year
- Litoral sur de Castellón: 45 days a year
- Litoral sur de Valencia: 56 days a year
- Hellín y Almansa: 67 days a year
- Interior sur de Castellón: 70 days a year
- Interior sur de Valencia: 73 days a year
- Interior norte de Valencia: 75 days a year
- La Mancha albaceteña: 83 days a year
- Albarracín y Jiloca: 84 days a year
- Serranía de Cuenca: 85 days a year
- Gúdar y Maestrazgo: 94 days a year
València's bad-weather fingerprint
Each axis compares the warning days a year in València'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 (1.4×).
Fewer than average: snow, fog and cold.
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 València, 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 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 6.4 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 1.9 |
| Storms | 0.7 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | |||
| Wind | 2.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 1.4 | |||
| Heat | 0.1 | 1.9 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Cold | 1.4 | |||||||||||
| Snow | 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
4.1 warning days on average (0.6 orange or red). Mostly: wind and cold.
February
The quietest month1.6 warning days on average. Mostly: wind and rain.
March
4.3 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.
April
2.0 warning days on average. Mostly: rain and storms.
May
2 red days since 20192.6 warning days on average (0.7 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
June
4.1 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
July
7.0 warning days on average (1.6 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
August
4 red days since 20197.3 warning days on average (1.9 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.
September
The busiest month2 red days since 20197.1 warning days on average (2.6 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
October
1 red day since 20193.6 warning days on average (1.1 orange or red). Mostly: rain and storms.
November
2 red days since 20194.6 warning days on average (1.4 orange or red). Mostly: rain and wind.
December
2 red days since 20193.1 warning days on average (1.0 orange or red). Mostly: rain 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 València are February and April: 1.6 and 2.0 warning days on average. The busiest is September, with 7.1.
Las Fallas, in March, falls in a month with some rain and wind warnings: pack a raincoat.
Summers: the heat
València has 13 heat-warning days a year (2.7 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 25 June to 25 August. The earliest one came on 16 May; the latest, on 7 September.
Red heat days since 2019: 9 August 2019, 13 August 2022, 10 August 2023, 16 August 2025, 15 July 2026 and 19 August 2026.
The heat warning needs a forecast high of 36 °C, and warnings look only at the maximum temperature, not humidity.
Winters: cold, snow and wind
Winter (December to February) brings 8.9 warning days on average: rain (3.0), storms (0.9), wind (4.9) and cold (1.4).
The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −1 °C; red, at −8 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.
Rain and storms
València has 27 rain-warning days and 18 storm-warning days a year. The months with the most rain warnings are September, October and March.
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: 13 September 2019, 3 May 2022, 4 May 2022, 29 October 2024, 13 November 2024, 14 November 2024, 29 September 2025, 14 December 2025, 15 December 2025 and 1 October 2026.
The rain that reaches a warning here is the short, heavy kind: yellow needs 20 litres in an hour, more than in most of Spain.
Wind, fog and coast
Wind warnings: 9.1 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Orange | Red | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 64 | 10 | 3 | heat and wind |
| 2025 | 70 | 17 | 4 | rain and storms |
| 2024 | 49 | 8 | 3 | rain and storms |
| 2023 | 45 | 11 | 1 | rain and storms |
| 2022 | 56 | 6 | 3 | rain and storms |
| 2021 | 51 | 9 | 0 | rain and storms |
| 2020 | 40 | 8 | 0 | rain and storms |
| 2019 | 49 | 10 | 2 | rain and wind |
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 70 days.
The worst days
Every red day since June 2018:
- 1 October 2026 rain
- 19 August 2026 heat
- 15 July 2026 heat
- 15 December 2025 rain
- 14 December 2025 rain
- 29 September 2025 rain
- 16 August 2025 heat
- 14 November 2024 rain
- 13 November 2024 rain
- 29 October 2024 rain
- 10 August 2023 heat
- 13 August 2022 heat
- 4 May 2022 rain
- 3 May 2022 rain
- 13 September 2019 rain
- 9 August 2019 heat
The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 10 days, from 26 October 2024 to 4 November 2024.
When a warning is issued in València
| 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 | 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 Valencia 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.
València 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 València or are thinking of moving
- With 12 orange or red days a year, serious warnings come a few times a year, nearly always in the same seasons.
- Autumn is the season to watch: rain warnings, possible road closures and, sometimes, schools shut.
- When house-hunting, ask about flooding in the street or the garage: warnings cover the whole zone, but water doesn't fall the same everywhere.
- Sign up for warnings: a red rain warning in València is uncommon, but no longer rare.
In short
A city of few warnings and a few very serious ones. Ten months of relative calm and an autumn worth respecting.
Frequently asked questions
When does it rain most in València?
Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are September and October. On average there are 27 rain-warning days a year.
What's the best month to visit València?
If you want to dodge bad-weather warnings, February and April: they have the fewest warning days on average.
Have there been red warnings in València?
Yes: 16 red days since June 2018, the latest on 1 October 2026 (rain).
Does it get very hot in València?
There are 13 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.
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- Barcelona vs València
- València vs Sevilla
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- Castellón de la Plana vs València
Other cities
- Madrid
- Barcelona
- 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
- Tarragona
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Zamora