Severe-weather warnings in Colmenar Viejo
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in Madrid, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Colmenar Viejo had 94 warning days from AEMET: 79 yellow and 15 orange. Mostly heat and storms. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 100 | 86 | 14 | 0 |
| 2025 | 94 | 79 | 15 | 0 |
| 2024 | 72 | 65 | 7 | 0 |
| 2023 | 75 | 54 | 20 | 1 |
| 2022 | 72 | 63 | 9 | 0 |
| 2021 | 68 | 59 | 7 | 2 |
| 2020 | 89 | 80 | 9 | 0 |
| 2019 | 77 | 65 | 12 | 0 |
| 2018* | 28 | 26 | 2 | 0 |
A day with several warnings counts once, at its highest level. 2018: from 18 Jun 2018. 2026: up to 26 Oct 2026.
Which warnings, since 2018
- Heat: 259 days
- Rain: 146 days
- Storms: 145 days
- Wind: 137 days
- Snow: 111 days
- Cold: 45 days
- Fog: 4 days
Episodes that hit the Sierra de Madrid zone
- August 2021 heatwave: heat in Andalucía, Castilla - La Mancha and elsewhere, 11–17 August 2021 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- Rain and storms across much of Spain, 2–4 September 2023 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- August 2025 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 3–18 August 2025 · here: orange warning, 9 days at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Colmenar Viejo
How many days a year does Colmenar Viejo have a weather warning?
On average, 78 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 12 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is Colmenar Viejo one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
Yes. Its warning zone, Sierra de Madrid, ranks 22nd 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 Colmenar Viejo?
Heat: 28 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then rain (18) and wind (17).
Which month has the most warnings in Colmenar Viejo?
July, with 15 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is April, with 2.4.
Has Colmenar Viejo ever had a red warning?
Yes: 3 red-warning days since 18 June 2018. The last was on 3 September 2023, for rain.
Why does Colmenar Viejo get the same warnings as Collado Villalba?
Because AEMET doesn't warn by town but by zone. Colmenar Viejo, Collado Villalba and 63 other towns are in the Sierra de Madrid zone (Madrid) and get exactly the same warnings.
Other towns in the Sierra de Madrid zone
Warnings are issued by zone: these towns share the same warnings.
- Collado Villalba
- Galapagar
- Torrelodones
- San Lorenzo de El Escorial
- Guadarrama
- El Escorial
- Alpedrete
- Moralzarzal
- Valdemorillo
- San Agustín del Guadalix
- El Molar
- Manzanares el Real
- Soto del Real
- Hoyo de Manzanares
- El Boalo
- Cercedilla
- Collado Mediano
- Miraflores de la Sierra
- Guadalix de la Sierra
- Becerril de la Sierra
- Valdetorres de Jarama
- Torrelaguna
Nearby, in other zones
- Tres Cantos · 63 days in 2025
- San Sebastián de los Reyes · 63 days in 2025
- Alcobendas · 63 days in 2025
- Las Rozas de Madrid · 63 days in 2025
- Fuente el Saz de Jarama · 63 days in 2025
- Majadahonda · 63 days in 2025
- Algete · 63 days in 2025
- Cobeña · 63 days in 2025
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Bad-weather guides
The nearest guide is Madrid's, 27 km away. It is in a different warning zone, so its warnings are not the same.
- Bad weather in Madrid: warnings by month
- Madrid vs Barcelona
- Sevilla vs Madrid
- Málaga vs Madrid
- Spain in October: where the bad weather is, and where it isn't
- Spain in November: where the bad weather is, and where it isn't
See on the map All towns in Madrid
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