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Rain and storms in Illes Balears, Cataluña and elsewhere, 9 September 2026

9 September 2026. Updated 26 October 2026.

In a single day, 23 of Spain's 182 warning zones had an orange or red warning for rain and storms: 23 zone-days at orange or red, 0 of them red. The day with the most zones at orange or red was 9 September, with 23 zones.

9 September was the day with the most people in zones under an orange or red warning: 11.5 million people live there (INE municipal register, 2025).

RedOrangeYellowNo warningEach zone at the highest warning it had during the episode. Grey: no warning on those days.
True-colour satellite image of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands on 9 September 2026
Spain from space on 9 September 2026, the day with the most zones at orange or red. Image: NASA Worldview.

How it compares

Day by day

DayRedOrangeYellowOrange or red warnings for
Wed 9 September—2321rain, storms

Zones with a warning each day, at their highest level that day.

The zones

ZoneProvinceHighest levelWarning days
Campo de Cartagena y MazarrónMurciaorange1
Ibiza y FormenteraIbiza y Formenteraorange1
Interior de MallorcaMallorcaorange1
Levante almerienseAlmeríaorange1
Levante mallorquínMallorcaorange1
Litoral de BarcelonaBarcelonaorange1
Litoral norte de AlicanteAlacant/Alicanteorange1
Litoral norte de TarragonaTarragonaorange1
Litoral sur de AlicanteAlacant/Alicanteorange1
MenorcaMenorcaorange1
Nacimiento y Campo de TabernasAlmeríaorange1
Norte y nordeste de MallorcaMallorcaorange1
Pirineo de GironaGironaorange1
Pirineo de LleidaLleidaorange1
Poniente y Almería CapitalAlmeríaorange1
Prelitoral de BarcelonaBarcelonaorange1
Prelitoral norte de TarragonaTarragonaorange1
Prepirineo de BarcelonaBarcelonaorange1
Sierra TramontanaMallorcaorange1
Sur de MallorcaMallorcaorange1
Valle del Almanzora y Los VélezAlmeríaorange1
Valle del Guadalentín, Lorca y ÁguilasMurciaorange1
Vega del SeguraMurciaorange1

And 21 more zones with yellow warnings only.

What AEMET's stations measured

The most measured in the zones with an orange or red warning, on their warning days: 71.3 l/m² of rain in 24 h at Campdevanol (Pirineo de Girona) on 9 September; a 158 km/h gust at Banyalbufar (Sierra Tramontana) on 9 September.

ZoneMost rain in 24 hStrongest gust
Pirineo de Girona71.3 l/m²
Campdevanol · 9 September
66 km/h
La Vall de Bianya · 9 September
Levante mallorquín69.4 l/m²
Manacor · 9 September
75 km/h
Son Servera · 9 September
Sur de Mallorca65.8 l/m²
Llucmajor · 9 September
94 km/h
Palma, Universitat · 9 September
Litoral de Barcelona52.1 l/m²
Barcelona, Fabra · 9 September
54 km/h
Sitges · 9 September
Interior de Mallorca51.2 l/m²
Petra · 9 September
71 km/h
Petra · 9 September
Litoral norte de Alicante50.0 l/m²
Pego · 9 September
45 km/h
Jávea/ Xàbia · 9 September
Norte y nordeste de Mallorca37.0 l/m²
Sa Pobla · 9 September
66 km/h
Muro, S'Albufera · 9 September
Sierra Tramontana36.4 l/m²
Banyalbufar · 9 September
158 km/h
Banyalbufar · 9 September
Vega del Segura26.2 l/m²
Murcia · 9 September
67 km/h
Murcia Aeropuerto · 9 September
Campo de Cartagena y Mazarrón23.8 l/m²
Cartagena/salinas Cabo Palos · 9 September
68 km/h
San Javier Aeropuerto · 9 September
Litoral sur de Alicante22.6 l/m²
Orihuela · 9 September
56 km/h
Orihuela · 9 September
Prelitoral de Barcelona17.6 l/m²
Fogars de Montclús · 9 September
29 km/h
Pontons · 9 September
Valle del Guadalentín, Lorca y Águilas13.8 l/m²
Totana · 9 September
51 km/h
Alhama de Murcia · 9 September
Valle del Almanzora y Los Vélez12.2 l/m²
Albox · 9 September
46 km/h
Albox · 9 September
Prepirineo de Barcelona *6.8 l/m²
Berga · 9 September
19 km/h
Berga · 9 September
Poniente y Almería Capital6.3 l/m²
Rágol, Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada · 9 September
55 km/h
Almería Aeropuerto · 9 September
Menorca6.1 l/m²
Menorca, Aeropuerto · 9 September
76 km/h
Menorca, Aeropuerto · 9 September
Nacimiento y Campo de Tabernas4.0 l/m²
Abla · 9 September
48 km/h
Abla · 9 September
Pirineo de Lleida3.4 l/m²
Martinet · 9 September
47 km/h
Coll de Nargó · 9 September
Ibiza y Formentera2.0 l/m²
Formentera · 9 September
63 km/h
Ibiza, Aeropuerto · 9 September

And 3 more zones with an orange or red warning.

* Zone with no AEMET station: the value is from the nearest one, outside the zone.

For each zone, the highest value its AEMET stations measured on the episode's warning days (the lowest, for the low temperature), with the station and the day. Rain from 07:00 to 07:00 UTC; gust: the day's strongest. It is what the zone's stations measured, not every town, and a measurement, like a warning, is not damage.

How AEMET's warnings unfolded

The orange warning reached 23 zone-days. AEMET issued it ahead of time in 22 of them (median: 23 h) and for the current hour in the other 1: warnings are also raised as things unfold. The first warning of any level for those same days had come a median 24 h earlier.

ZoneDayFirst warningOrange issuedFor · notice
Litoral norte de AlicanteWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 orangeMon 7 Sep, 11:3814:00 · 50 h before
Pirineo de GironaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 orangeMon 7 Sep, 11:3808:00 · 44 h before
Prepirineo de BarcelonaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 orangeMon 7 Sep, 11:3808:00 · 44 h before
Ibiza y FormenteraWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
Interior de MallorcaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
Levante mallorquínWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
MenorcaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
Norte y nordeste de MallorcaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
Sierra TramontanaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
Sur de MallorcaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2110:00 · 23 h before
Campo de Cartagena y MazarrónWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2414:00 · 27 h before
Valle del Guadalentín, Lorca y ÁguilasWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 19:10 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2414:00 · 27 h before
Vega del SeguraWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2414:00 · 27 h before
Litoral de BarcelonaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2500:00 · 13 h before
Litoral norte de TarragonaWed 9Mon 7 Sep, 11:38 yellowTue 8 Sep, 11:2500:00 · 13 h before

And 8 more zone-days.

The full timeline: 58 changes at orange or red

Mon 7 September

Tue 8 September

Wed 9 September

AEMET's issue times, in mainland Spain time (Canary Islands in island time). Notice is the time from issue to the first hour the warning covered; a warning issued “for the current hour” runs from the hour it is published.

What this says and what it doesn't

A warning is an AEMET forecast, not a measurement or a damage report: it says a threshold is expected to be exceeded in a zone. A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building.

A zone-day is one warning zone with a warning on one day. Ten zones at orange on the same day make ten zone-days. A day with several warnings in one zone counts once, at its highest level.

Each zone has its own thresholds, so an orange heat warning in Asturias doesn't mean the same temperature as in Córdoba. More in how warnings work.

To cite: “Climaviso, from AEMET warnings”.

Source: official AEMET warnings, collected by Climaviso since June 2018.

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