Spain's weather warnings in 2026

Updated 11 October 2026. This page is rebuilt every day.

So far in 2026, Spain's 182 warning zones add up to 11,861 zone-days with a warning: 9,585 yellow, 2,192 orange and 84 red. Somewhere in Spain had a warning on 267 of the year's 284 days.

Highlights

• 2026 already has 4,970 zone-days with a heat warning: more than any full year since 2019. The previous high was 4,020, in 2025.
• 2026 already has 11,861 zone-days with a warning: more than any full year since 2019. The previous high was 11,709, in 2025.
• 2026 has 2,734 zone-days with a wind warning, the highest at this point of the year since 2019. The previous high was 1,910, in 2024.
• 2026 has 698 zone-days with a snow warning, the highest at this point of the year since 2019. The previous high was 568, in 2021.

By warning type, year by year

Each bar is a year, counted from 1 January to 11 October, so the same period is compared. The dark bar is 2026.

Month by month

Zone-days with a warning each month. The tick marks the 2019–2025 median for that month. October runs to day 11.

The red warnings of 2026

34 days with a red warning somewhere; 84 zone-days in all.

• 3 October red for rain Litoral de Barcelona
• 1 October red for rain Interior norte de Castellón, Interior sur de Castellón, Litoral norte de Castellón, Litoral norte de Valencia, Litoral sur de Castellón, Litoral sur de Tarragona, Litoral sur de Valencia
• 28 September red for rain Norte de Cáceres
• 16 September red for rain Litoral de Barcelona
• 3 September red for heat Campiña sevillana, Morena y Condado
• 22 August red for rain Litoral norte de Tarragona
• 21 August red for storms Menorca · red for wind Menorca
• 19 August red for heat Litoral norte de Alicante, Litoral norte de Valencia, Litoral sur de Valencia, Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza
• 18 August red for heat Miño de Ourense, Miño de Pontevedra
• 6 August red for storms Depresión central de Barcelona
• 3 August red for heat Cumbres de Gran Canaria, Este, sur y oeste de Gran Canaria
• 24 July red for heat Valle del Almanzora y Los Vélez
• 23 July red for heat Hellín y Almansa, La Mancha albaceteña, Litoral sur de Alicante, Litoral sur de Valencia, Valle del Guadalentín, Lorca y Águilas, Vega del Segura
• 15 July red for heat Litoral norte de Valencia, Litoral sur de Valencia, Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza
• 8 July red for heat Ampurdán, Depresión central de Tarragona, Litoral sur de Valencia
• 7 July red for heat Bajo Aragón de Teruel, Depresión central de Lleida, Depresión central de Tarragona, Litoral sur de Valencia, Pirineo de Lleida, Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza, Sur de Huesca
• 24 June red for heat Bizkaia interior, Bizkaia litoral, Centro y valle de Villaverde, Gipuzkoa interior, Gipuzkoa litoral, Litoral cántabro, Liébana
• 23 June red for heat Bizkaia interior, Campiña cordobesa, Centro y valle de Villaverde, Gipuzkoa interior, Liébana, Morena y Condado
• 22 June red for heat Bizkaia interior, Gipuzkoa interior
• 21 June red for heat Bizkaia interior, Gipuzkoa interior
• 18 May red for rain Litoral sur de Girona
• 29 March red for wind Pirineo de Girona, Prepirineo de Barcelona
• 24 March red for rain Norte de Tenerife, Área metropolitana de Tenerife
• 15 March red for wind Pirineo de Girona, Prepirineo de Barcelona
• 14 February red for wind Interior norte de Castellón, Interior sur de Castellón, Litoral norte de Castellón, Litoral sur de Castellón
• 5 February red for rain Grazalema
• 4 February red for rain Estrecho, Grazalema, Ronda
• 28 January red for wind Meseta cacereña, Valle del Almanzora y Los Vélez, Villuercas y Montánchez
• 27 January red for rain Interior de Pontevedra
• 26 January red for rain Interior de Pontevedra
• 20 January red for rain Ampurdán
• 7 January red for cold Parameras de Molina
• 6 January red for cold Parameras de Molina
• 4 January red for rain Sol y Guadalhorce

The zones with the most warning days

By region

Average warning days per zone, 1 January to 11 October. “Earlier years” is the average for the same period in 2019–2025.

How to read these numbers

A zone-day is one warning zone with a warning on one day. Spain has 182 zones: ten zones warned on the same day make ten zone-days. A day with several warnings in one zone counts once, at its highest level; each warning type counts once per type.

A warning is a forecast, not a measurement: it says a threshold is expected to be exceeded in a zone. Each zone has its own thresholds (a yellow heat warning doesn't start at the same temperature in Asturias as in Córdoba), so these numbers count how often a warning was issued, not how hot or wet it was. For measured temperature and rain, see AEMET's climate summaries.

Thresholds have barely changed: according to Maldita, maximum-temperature thresholds have changed in only 10 of the 182 zones since 2006, always upwards. More heat warnings are not explained by lower thresholds.

The archive starts on 18 June 2018, so comparisons start in 2019. More on levels, thresholds and zones in how warnings work.

To cite: “Climaviso, from AEMET warnings”.

Other years

2026, so far · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019

Sources

• Warnings: AEMET's warning archive (CAP format, AEMET OpenData), collected by Climaviso since June 2018.
• Warning levels and issue times: AEMET, how to read warnings (Spanish).
• Threshold changes: Maldita, 5 September 2024 (Spanish).