Camino Lebaniego weather: warnings stage by stage, month by month

Camino Lebaniego, San Vicente de la Barquera to Santo Toribio de Liébana, in 3 stages. Warnings 2019–2025; updated 27 October 2026.

The Camino Lebaniego runs from San Vicente de la Barquera, on the Cantabrian coast, to the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana, at the foot of the Picos de Europa. It's a pilgrimage with its own Holy Year, short but with a clear change in weather between the coast and the valley. This is what the official warnings say, stage by stage and month by month.

April

the month with the fewest warnings

0.2 warning days walking the whole route

January

the month with the most warnings

0.8 warning days in 3 stages

warning zones

in 1 provinces

red days on some stage

2019 to 2025

It's only a few stages and just two AEMET zones: the Cantabrian coast, with fewer warning days than the median Spanish zone, and Liébana, which is above it. For each stage we count the warning days in the zones it crosses, and add them up month by month.

April and July are the calmest months; January and December, the busiest, with wind and snow. In Liébana the yellow snow threshold is 5 cm.

The red days of the last eight years have all been in summer: 11 August 2024, 15 August 2025 and 23 and 24 June 2026, for heat, and 21 August 2025, for rain.

The Camino Lebaniego's warning zones

AEMET doesn't warn by village but by zone. The Camino Lebaniego crosses 2 warning zones, each with its own thresholds and warnings: on the same day one section can have a warning and the next none.

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

Walking the whole route, month by month

How many warning days you'd get, on average, walking one stage a day from San Vicente de la Barquera to Santo Toribio de Liébana in each month. Tap a month to see it stage by stage.

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0.8Jan 0.4Feb 0.5Mar 0.2Apr 0.3May 0.7Jun 0.3Jul 0.4Aug 0.4Sep 0.5Oct 0.6Nov 0.7Dec

Stage-days with a warning, average 2019–2025, over 3 stages; the colour is the day's highest level in the stage's zones.

Stage by stage, month by month

Share of days with some warning in each stage's zones, 2019–2025. The darker, the more warnings.

Stage	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1. San Vicente de la Barquera – Cades	13	5	4	1	9	13	6	11	10	8	13	15
2. Cades – Cabañes	32	18	22	11	14	28	12	17	18	23	25	30
3. Cabañes – Santo Toribio de Liébana	31	17	20	11	9	25	11	14	12	19	20	24

The Camino Lebaniego section by section

Coast: San Vicente de la Barquera – Cades

The first stage, San Vicente de la Barquera to Cades, follows the Cantabrian coast and is the calmest on the route. What there is is rain and wind, mostly in December and January.

Most common: rain, wind and storms. Most warnings in December and January; fewest in April and March.

Liébana: Cades – Santo Toribio de Liébana

From Cades to Santo Toribio the route enters Liébana, with far more warnings than the coast. Wind is the top reason, followed by rain, storms and, in winter, snow; July and April are the calmest months.

Most common: wind, rain and storms. Most warnings in January and December; fewest in July and April.

The worst days on the Camino Lebaniego

The days since 2018 with orange or red on the most stages at once.

red11 August 2024: red warning on 3 of 3 stages, for heat · the episode
red15 August 2025: red warning on 3 of 3 stages, for heat · the episode
red23 June 2026: red warning on 3 of 3 stages, for heat · the episode
red24 June 2026: red warning on 3 of 3 stages, for heat · the episode
orange23 July 2019: orange warning on 3 of 3 stages, for rain, storms and heat · the episode
orange21 December 2019: orange warning on 3 of 3 stages, for wind · the episode
orange22 December 2019: orange warning on 3 of 3 stages, for wind · the episode
orange17 January 2023: orange warning on 3 of 3 stages, for rain, wind and snow · the episode

When a warning is issued on the Camino Lebaniego

Thresholds change from zone to zone. These are the yellow ones in the Camino Lebaniego's zones:

Zone	Heat	Cold	Wind	Rain 1 h	Snow 24 h
Litoral cántabro	34 °C	−1 °C	90 km/h	15 mm	2 cm
Liébana	34 °C	−6 °C	80 km/h	15 mm	5 cm

Yellow thresholds from AEMET's warning plan. Orange and red need more. Storms have no numeric threshold.

Tips for the Camino Lebaniego

Check AEMET's forecast the evening before each stage, and the zone's warnings on the Climaviso map.
In winter, expect wind and snow in Liébana: they're the most common warnings from December to March.
With a snow or wind warning in Liébana, look for a lower variant or wait a day.
In summer, set off early: the route's red days have been heat days in June and August.
A warning covers the whole zone: it doesn't mean it will happen on your stage, but it does mean you should keep an eye out.

Frequently asked questions

What's the best month to walk the Camino Lebaniego?

By warnings, April: on average, 0.2 warning days if you walk the 3 stages that month. Then July and May. The month with the most warnings is January, with 0.8 days.

Which section of the Camino Lebaniego gets the most rain warnings?

Liébana: on average, a rain warning on 6% of days, mostly in May, June and September.

Does the Camino Lebaniego get hot enough for warnings in summer?

In July and August, the section with the most heat warnings is Liébana: a heat warning on 6% of days, on average.

Can it snow on the Camino Lebaniego?

Yes, above all on the mountain sections: snow warnings bunch up in the Liébana zones, in January, March and December. There, yellow needs 5 cm in 24 hours.

What should I do if there's a warning on my stage?

A yellow warning calls for attention, not cancelling: check the forecast, set off early and, if it's for storms, finish the stage before the afternoon. With snow or strong wind on a col, wait or take the low variant. With orange or red, follow Civil Protection's and the mountain huts' advice, and don't go up.

This is not a forecast: it counts the warnings AEMET issued on those dates in past years. A warning is a forecast that a threshold will be crossed in the zone, not damage.