Bad weather in Vitoria-Gasteiz

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

Vitoria-Gasteiz spreads its warnings across storms, wind and rain, with snow as the big scare: a red warning in late November 2021.

warning days a year

Spain: 54

orange or red warning days

a year

red days

2019–2025

#101

of 182 zones

1 = most warnings

The Álava plain has no dominant reason for a warning: storms, wind and rain run almost neck and neck, with some heat and snow behind. Cold, on the other hand, barely issues warnings.

The year is fairly even, with no month that spikes. June is the busiest and August the second. In the last eight years, the zone's red warnings were for snow, on 27 and 28 November 2021.

Vitoria-Gasteiz has 260,699 inhabitants and sits in the Llanada alavesa warning zone (Araba/Álava). Warnings are issued for the whole zone: it shares them with 3 other towns, such as Agurain / Salvatierra, Santa Cruz de Campezo / Santikurutze Kanpezu and Ribabellosa.

Vitoria-Gasteiz's warning zone and its neighbours

AEMET doesn't warn by city but by zone: Vitoria-Gasteiz gets the warnings for the Llanada alavesa zone, outlined on the map. The zones around it have their own thresholds and their own warnings.

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Average warning days a year, 2019–2025, against the median of Spain's zones (54 days). Tap a zone to go to its page.

Vitoria-Gasteiz's bad-weather fingerprint

Each axis compares the warning days a year in Vitoria-Gasteiz'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: snow (2.5×).

Fewer than average: cold, heat 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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6.1Jan 3.0Feb 4.4Mar 3.3Apr 3.7May 8.1Jun 4.9Jul 6.0Aug 3.1Sep 2.7Oct 3.4Nov 3.3Dec

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 Vitoria-Gasteiz, 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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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec202655202565202457202359202240202140202051201953

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	0.4	0.1	0.9	2.9	5.4	1.1	1.3	2.0	0.6	0.3	0.4
Storms			0.3	0.9	3.0	6.3	2.3	3.1	2.3	0.3
Wind	2.4	1.4	3.7	1.9	0.4	0.1			0.7	2.3	2.3	1.3
Heat						1.7	3.1	3.7	0.3
Cold	0.7	0.4	0.1
Snow	3.6	1.1	0.4	0.4							1.0	1.9
Fog		0.4										0.4

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

6.1 warning days on average (1.3 orange or red). Mostly: snow and wind.

February

The quietest month

3.0 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: wind and snow.

March

4.4 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: wind and snow.

April

3.3 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.

May

3.7 warning days on average (0.6 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.

June

The busiest month

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

July

4.9 warning days on average (1.1 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

August

6.0 warning days on average (1.7 orange or red). Mostly: heat and storms.

September

3.1 warning days on average (0.3 orange or red). Mostly: storms and rain.

October

2.7 warning days on average (0.4 orange or red). Mostly: wind and rain.

November

2 red days since 2019

3.4 warning days on average (0.9 orange or red). Mostly: wind and snow.

December

3.3 warning days on average (0.6 orange or red). Mostly: snow 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 Vitoria-Gasteiz are February and October: 3.0 and 2.7 warning days on average. The busiest is June, with 8.1.

February and October are the quietest months.

Summers: the heat

Vitoria-Gasteiz has 8.9 heat-warning days a year (2.6 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 11 July to 14 August. The earliest one came on 14 June; the latest, on 18 September.

Winters: cold, snow and wind

Winter (December to February) brings 12 warning days on average: rain (1.4), wind (5.1), cold (1.1), snow (6.6) and fog (0.9).

The yellow cold warning starts at lows of −6 °C; red, at −14 °C. Snow, at 2 cm in 24 hours.

Red cold or snow days since 2019: 27 November 2021 and 28 November 2021.

Yellow for snow comes at 2 cm in 24 hours: a short snowfall is enough to trigger a warning.

Rain and storms

Vitoria-Gasteiz has 16 rain-warning days and 18 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: 17 days a year; yellow starts at gusts of 70 km/h.

Fog: 0.9 days a year, always yellow (fog has no higher level).

Year by year

Year	Warning days	Orange	Red	Mostly
2026*	55	9	0	storms and rain
2025	65	19	0	storms and rain
2024	57	4	0	wind and rain
2023	59	14	0	storms and rain
2022	40	7	0	heat and storms
2021	40	7	2	rain and snow
2020	51	5	0	storms and rain
2019	53	13	0	wind and snow

2026, up to 26 October 2026. For the same stretch of the year, the 2019–2025 average is 45 days.

The year with the most warnings was 2025, with 65 days.

The worst days

Every red day since June 2018:

28 November 2021 snow
27 November 2021 snow

The longest run of consecutive warning days lasted 8 days, from 10 August 2025 to 17 August 2025.

When a warning is issued in Vitoria-Gasteiz

	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 Llanada alavesa 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.

Vitoria-Gasteiz 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 Vitoria-Gasteiz or are thinking of moving

With 10 orange or red days a year, serious warnings come a few times a year, nearly always in the same seasons.
Wind and rain bring warnings all year round: good shoes and an umbrella.
In winter, snow can complicate the roads across the plain.
June and August bring storms.

In short

A city of varied, evenly spread warnings, without big peaks, with snow as its most serious scare.

Frequently asked questions

When does it rain most in Vitoria-Gasteiz?

Going by the warnings, the months with the most rain-warning days are June and May. On average there are 16 rain-warning days a year.

What's the best month to visit Vitoria-Gasteiz?

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

Have there been red warnings in Vitoria-Gasteiz?

Yes: 2 red days since June 2018, the latest on 28 November 2021 (snow).

Does it get very hot in Vitoria-Gasteiz?

There are 8.9 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.