Severe-weather warnings: Litoral sur de Alicante zone
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in Alacant/Alicante, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Litoral sur de Alicante had 58 warning days from AEMET: 44 yellow, 11 orange and 3 red. Mostly heat and rain. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 57 | 41 | 15 | 1 |
| 2025 | 58 | 44 | 11 | 3 |
| 2024 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 42 | 35 | 5 | 2 |
| 2022 | 49 | 46 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 41 | 32 | 7 | 2 |
| 2020 | 31 | 26 | 5 | 0 |
| 2019 | 35 | 27 | 6 | 2 |
| 2018* | 36 | 30 | 6 | 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
- Heat: 144 days
- Rain: 141 days
- Storms: 106 days
- Wind: 88 days
Episodes that hit this zone
The spells of orange and red warnings since 2018 that hit this zone hardest: first those that reached red here, then those with the most days at orange or red.
- August 2025 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 3–18 August 2025 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- September 2019 DANA: rain and storms across much of Spain, 9–14 September 2019 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- Heat across much of Spain, 20–24 July 2026 · here: red warning, 2 days at orange or red
- DANA Alice: rain in Comunitat Valenciana, Cataluña and elsewhere, 10–14 October 2025 · here: red warning, 2 days at orange or red
- August 2021 heatwave: heat in Andalucía, Castilla - La Mancha and elsewhere, 11–17 August 2021 · here: red warning, 1 day at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Litoral sur de Alicante
How many days a year does the Litoral sur de Alicante zone have a weather warning?
On average, 41 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 7.1 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is the Litoral sur de Alicante zone one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
It sits mid-table. It ranks 140th 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 the Litoral sur de Alicante zone?
Rain: 15 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then heat (15) and storms (12).
Which month has the most warnings in the Litoral sur de Alicante zone?
August, with 7.3 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is February, with 0.9.
Has the Litoral sur de Alicante zone ever had a red warning?
Yes: 12 red-warning days since 18 June 2018. The last was on 23 July 2026, for heat.
Which towns get the warnings of the Litoral sur de Alicante zone?
62 towns in Alacant/Alicante, including Alacant / Alicante, Torrevieja and Orihuela. AEMET warns by zone: they all get the same warnings.
Towns in this zone
- Alacant / Alicante
- Torrevieja
- Orihuela
- Benidorm
- Sant Vicent del Raspeig / San Vicente del Raspeig
- Santa Pola
- la Vila Joiosa / Villajoyosa
- el Campello
- Crevillent
- Mutxamel
- Sant Joan d'Alacant
- Novelda
- Pilar de la Horadada
- Almoradí
- Aspe
- l'Alfàs del Pi
- Callosa de Segura
- la Nucia
- Guardamar del Segura
- Rojales
- Albatera
- Finestrat
- San Fulgencio
- Catral
- Monforte del Cid
- Dolores
- Redován
- Cox
- Bigastro
- San Miguel de Salinas
- Polop
- Benejúzar
- Los Montesinos
- Agost
- Formentera del Segura
- Rafal
- Algorfa
- Busot
- Benijófar
- el Fondó de les Neus / Hondón de las Nieves
- Granja de Rocamora
- San Isidro
- Jacarilla
- Benferri
- Daya Nueva
- Relleu
- Hondón de los Frailes
- Aigües
- Orxeta
- Daya Vieja
- Dehesa de Campoamor
- el Rebolledo
- Elx / Elche
- Entrenaranjos
- l'Altet
- la Baia
- la Foia
- la Marina
- La Mata
- Torrellano
- Urbanización Doña Pepa
- Urbanización Lo Pepin
Bad-weather guides
- Bad weather in Alicante: 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 Alacant/Alicante
A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building. Data © AEMET.
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