Severe-weather warnings in Ponferrada
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in León, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Ponferrada had 38 warning days from AEMET: 37 yellow and 1 orange. Mostly heat and storms. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 55 | 53 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 38 | 37 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 39 | 38 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 53 | 50 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 37 | 31 | 6 | 0 |
| 2021 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 35 | 34 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 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 27 Oct 2026.
Which warnings, since 2018
- Storms: 149 days
- Rain: 117 days
- Heat: 90 days
- Wind: 26 days
- Fog: 26 days
- Cold: 25 days
- Snow: 24 days
Episodes that hit the Bierzo de León zone
- July 2022 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 9–18 July 2022 · here: orange warning, 5 days at orange or red
- August 2018 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 1–9 August 2018 · here: orange warning, 2 days at orange or red
- Wind and rain across much of Spain, 23–28 January 2026 · here: orange warning, 2 days at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Ponferrada
How many days a year does Ponferrada have a weather warning?
On average, 37 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 2.3 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is Ponferrada one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
No: it is among the calmest. Its warning zone, Bierzo de León, ranks 155th 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 Ponferrada?
Storms: 14 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then rain (13) and heat (9.1).
Which month has the most warnings in Ponferrada?
June, with 6.3 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is April, with 0.7.
Has Ponferrada ever had a red warning?
No. Since 18 June 2018, not a single red-warning day; the highest level has been orange, on 20 days.
Why does Ponferrada get the same warnings as Bembibre?
Because AEMET doesn't warn by town but by zone. Ponferrada, Bembibre and 28 other towns are in the Bierzo de León zone (León) and get exactly the same warnings.
Other towns in the Bierzo de León zone
Warnings are issued by zone: these towns share the same warnings.
Nearby, in other zones
- O Barco · 27 days in 2025
- Astorga · 52 days in 2025
- A Rúa de Valdeorras · 27 days in 2025
- Villablino · 90 days in 2025
- Puebla de Sanabria · 70 days in 2025
- Quiroga · 38 days in 2025
- Becerreá · 40 days in 2025
- A Pobra de Trives · 40 days in 2025
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Bad-weather guides
The nearest guide is León's, 84 km away. It is in a different warning zone, so its warnings are not the same.
- Camino Francés weather, stage by stage
- Camino de Invierno weather, stage by stage
- Bad weather in León: warnings by month
- 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 León
A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building. Data © AEMET.
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