ClimavisoSpain's weather warnings in 2022
Full year, 1 January to 31 December 2022.
In 2022, Spain's 182 warning zones added up to 10,067 zone-days with a warning: 8,401 yellow, 1,608 orange and 58 red. Somewhere in Spain had a warning on 326 of the year's 365 days.
Highlights
- 2022 had the most zone-days with a dust warning of any year from 2019 to 2025: 169. Next was 2023, with 131.
- 2022 had the fewest zone-days with a wind warning of any year from 2019 to 2025: 1,790. The median was 2,455.
- 2022 had the fewest zone-days with a snow warning of any year from 2019 to 2025: 361. The median was 592.
- 2022 had the fewest zone-days with a fog warning of any year from 2019 to 2025: 70. The median was 211.
By warning type, year by year
All warnings
10,067
Red warnings
58
Rain
2,667
Storms
2,251
Wind
1,790
Heat
3,924
Cold
967
Snow
361
Fog
70
Dusthigh
169
Each bar is a full year. The dark bar is 2022.
Month by month
Zone-days with a warning each month. The tick marks the 2019–2025 median for that month.
The red warnings of 2022
21 days with a red warning somewhere; 58 zone-days in all.
- 26 September red for rain Litoral norte de Alicante
- 25 September red for rain Campo de Cartagena y Mazarrón, El Hierro, Este de La Palma, Este, sur y oeste de Gran Canaria, Litoral norte de Alicante
- 16 September red for rain Litoral de Barcelona
- 18 August red for rain Gipuzkoa litoral
- 13 August red for heat Ibiza y Formentera, Litoral norte de Valencia, Litoral sur de Alicante, Litoral sur de Valencia
- 25 July red for heat Campiña cordobesa, Campiña sevillana, Litoral de Huelva, Vega del Segura
- 24 July red for heat Campiña cordobesa, Campiña gaditana, Campiña sevillana
- 23 July red for heat Campiña cordobesa
- 18 July red for heat Bizkaia interior, Bizkaia litoral, Cuenca del Nervión, Gipuzkoa interior, Gipuzkoa litoral, Vertiente cantábrica de Navarra
- 17 July red for heat Ribera del Ebro de La Rioja, Ribera del Ebro de Navarra, Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza
- 16 July red for heat Cantabria del Ebro, Ribera del Ebro de La Rioja, Ribera del Ebro de Navarra, Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza, Vegas del Guadiana
- 15 July red for heat Miño de Ourense, Vegas del Guadiana
- 14 July red for heat Campiña cordobesa, Campiña sevillana, Miño de Ourense, Norte de Cáceres, Sur de Salamanca, Sur de Ávila, Tajo y Alagón, Valle del Tajo, Vegas del Guadiana, Villuercas y Montánchez
- 13 July red for heat Campiña sevillana, Miño de Ourense, Vegas del Guadiana
- 12 July red for heat Miño de Ourense
- 10 July red for heat Este, sur y oeste de Gran Canaria
- 18 June red for heat Ribera del Ebro de La Rioja, Ribera del Ebro de Navarra, Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza
- 4 May red for rain Litoral norte de Valencia
- 3 May red for rain Litoral norte de Valencia
- 14 March red for rain Sol y Guadalhorce
- 4 March red for rain Litoral sur de Alicante
The zones with the most warning days
| Zone | Province | Warning days | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirineo oscense | Huesca | 150 | 31 | 0 |
| Pirineo de Lleida | Lleida | 137 | 25 | 0 |
| Pirineo de Girona | Girona | 124 | 12 | 0 |
| Gúdar y Maestrazgo | Teruel | 108 | 5 | 0 |
| Prepirineo de Barcelona | Barcelona | 101 | 10 | 0 |
| Valle de Arán | Lleida | 101 | 7 | 0 |
| Ribera del Ebro de Zaragoza | Zaragoza | 99 | 23 | 3 |
| Interior norte de Valencia | València/Valencia | 98 | 8 | 0 |
| Interior de Mallorca | Mallorca | 96 | 13 | 0 |
| Depresión central de Lleida | Lleida | 93 | 21 | 0 |
By region
| Region | Zones | Warning days per zone | Earlier years | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aragón | 9 | 96 | 87 | +10% |
| Cataluña | 16 | 75 | 75 | -0% |
| Illes Balears | 7 | 71 | 69 | +3% |
| Comunidad de Madrid | 3 | 66 | 72 | -9% |
| Comunitat Valenciana | 11 | 66 | 60 | +9% |
| Comunidad Foral de Navarra | 4 | 62 | 69 | -10% |
| Castilla y León | 24 | 60 | 64 | -6% |
| Castilla - La Mancha | 17 | 58 | 61 | -6% |
| La Rioja | 2 | 56 | 70 | -19% |
| Canarias | 13 | 55 | 41 | +33% |
| Extremadura | 8 | 52 | 49 | +7% |
| Cantabria | 4 | 46 | 54 | -15% |
| Andalucía | 29 | 43 | 44 | -2% |
| Región de Murcia | 5 | 42 | 45 | -8% |
| Galicia | 16 | 39 | 42 | -8% |
| País Vasco | 7 | 36 | 45 | -20% |
| Principado de Asturias | 5 | 26 | 40 | -36% |
| Ciudad de Ceuta | 1 | 21 | 18 | +18% |
| Ciudad de Melilla | 1 | 15 | 18 | -17% |
Average warning days per zone. “Earlier years” is the average of the other full years since 2019.
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).