Severe-weather warnings in Sax
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in Alacant/Alicante, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Sax had 57 warning days from AEMET: 49 yellow and 8 orange. Mostly rain and storms. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 68 | 57 | 11 | 0 |
| 2025 | 57 | 49 | 8 | 0 |
| 2024 | 37 | 30 | 7 | 0 |
| 2023 | 67 | 59 | 8 | 0 |
| 2022 | 51 | 49 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 51 | 42 | 9 | 0 |
| 2020 | 42 | 35 | 5 | 2 |
| 2019 | 51 | 40 | 9 | 2 |
| 2018* | 26 | 22 | 4 | 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
- Rain: 171 days
- Storms: 158 days
- Wind: 149 days
- Heat: 79 days
- Cold: 32 days
- Snow: 11 days
Episodes that hit the Interior de Alicante zone
- September 2019 DANA: rain and storms across much of Spain, 9–14 September 2019 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- Storm Gloria: snow and wind in Comunitat Valenciana, Cataluña and elsewhere, 19–21 January 2020 · here: red warning, 2 days at orange or red
- August 2025 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 3–18 August 2025 · here: orange warning, 3 days at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Sax
How many days a year does Sax have a weather warning?
On average, 51 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 7.4 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is Sax one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
It sits mid-table. Its warning zone, Interior de Alicante, ranks 105th 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 Sax?
Rain: 19 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then storms (18) and wind (16).
Which month has the most warnings in Sax?
January, with 7.7 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is February, with 2.3.
Has Sax ever had a red warning?
Yes: 4 red-warning days since 18 June 2018. The last was on 20 January 2020, for snow.
Why does Sax get the same warnings as Alcoi / Alcoy?
Because AEMET doesn't warn by town but by zone. Sax, Alcoi / Alcoy and 22 other towns are in the Interior de Alicante zone (Alacant/Alicante) and get exactly the same warnings.
Other towns in the Interior de Alicante zone
Warnings are issued by zone: these towns share the same warnings.
- Alcoi / Alcoy
- Elda
- Villena
- Petrer
- Ibi
- Monòver / Monóvar
- Castalla
- el Pinós / Pinoso
- Onil
- Xixona / Jijona
- Banyeres de Mariola
- la Romana
- Salinas
- Tibi
- Beneixama
- Algueña
- Cañada
- la Torre de les Maçanes / Torremanzanas
- el Camp de Mirra / Campo de Mirra
- Penàguila
- Benifallim
- Biar
- Sanxet
Nearby, in other zones
- Novelda · 58 days in 2025
- Monforte del Cid · 58 days in 2025
- Agost · 58 days in 2025
- Aspe · 58 days in 2025
- Caudete · 75 days in 2025
- el Fondó de les Neus / Hondón de las Nieves · 58 days in 2025
- Yecla · 53 days in 2025
- Fontanars dels Alforins · 86 days in 2025
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Bad-weather guides
The nearest guide is Alicante's, 36 km away. It is in a different warning zone, so its warnings are not the same.
- Bad weather in Alicante: warnings by month
- València vs Alicante
- Málaga vs Alicante
- Alicante vs Murcia
- 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 Alacant/Alicante
A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building. Data © AEMET.