Severe-weather warnings in Castro-Urdiales
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in Cantabria, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Castro-Urdiales had 40 warning days from AEMET: 37 yellow, 1 orange and 2 red. Mostly rain and storms. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 48 | 40 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 40 | 37 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 24 | 21 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 37 | 32 | 5 | 0 |
| 2019 | 48 | 41 | 7 | 0 |
| 2018* | 27 | 25 | 2 | 0 |
A day with several warnings counts once, at its highest level. 2018: from 18 Jun 2018. 2026: up to 27 Oct 2026.
Which warnings, since 2018
- Rain: 184 days
- Wind: 103 days
- Storms: 89 days
- Heat: 18 days
- Cold: 5 days
Episodes that hit the Litoral cántabro zone
- Heat across much of Spain, 20–24 June 2026 · here: red warning, 2 days at orange or red
- August 2025 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 3–18 August 2025 · here: red warning, 1 day at orange or red
- August 2024 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 8–15 August 2024 · here: red warning, 1 day at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Castro-Urdiales
How many days a year does Castro-Urdiales have a weather warning?
On average, 33 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 3.1 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is Castro-Urdiales one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
No: it is among the calmest. Its warning zone, Litoral cántabro, ranks 166th of Spain's 180 warning zones by warning days a year (2019–2025; 1st has the most). Each zone has its own thresholds: this measures how often AEMET warns, not the climate or the risk to a home.
Which kind of bad weather brings the most warnings to Castro-Urdiales?
Rain: 19 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then wind (12) and storms (8.7).
Which month has the most warnings in Castro-Urdiales?
December, with 4.7 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is April, with 0.3.
Has Castro-Urdiales ever had a red warning?
Yes: 4 red-warning days since 18 June 2018. The last was on 24 June 2026, for heat.
Why does Castro-Urdiales get the same warnings as Santander?
Because AEMET doesn't warn by town but by zone. Castro-Urdiales, Santander and 7 other towns are in the Litoral cántabro zone (Cantabria) and get exactly the same warnings.
Other towns in the Litoral cántabro zone
Warnings are issued by zone: these towns share the same warnings.
Nearby, in other zones
- Muskiz · 35 days in 2025
- Abanto y Ciérvana-Abanto Zierbena · 48 days in 2025
- Ortuella · 48 days in 2025
- Valle de Villaverde · 70 days in 2025
- Santurtzi · 35 days in 2025
- Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran · 48 days in 2025
- Getxo · 35 days in 2025
- Portugalete · 35 days in 2025
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Bad-weather guides
Castro-Urdiales is in the same warning zone as Santander, so it gets the same warnings.
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A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building. Data © AEMET.
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