Severe-weather warnings: Metropolitana y Henares zone
Today: no warnings. Tomorrow: no warnings. Today's warnings in Madrid, with hours and thresholds
In 2025, Metropolitana y Henares had 63 warning days from AEMET: 42 yellow and 21 orange. Mostly heat and storms. Spain's median was 64 days.
Year by year
| Year | Warning days | Yellow | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 81 | 61 | 20 | 0 |
| 2025 | 63 | 42 | 21 | 0 |
| 2024 | 59 | 45 | 14 | 0 |
| 2023 | 79 | 56 | 21 | 2 |
| 2022 | 60 | 44 | 16 | 0 |
| 2021 | 55 | 39 | 13 | 3 |
| 2020 | 72 | 58 | 14 | 0 |
| 2019 | 69 | 58 | 11 | 0 |
| 2018* | 22 | 16 | 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: 329 days
- Storms: 125 days
- Rain: 112 days
- Cold: 52 days
- Wind: 48 days
- Snow: 10 days
- Fog: 8 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.
- Storm Filomena: cold and snow across much of Spain, 6–15 January 2021 · here: red warning, 6 days at orange or red
- August 2023 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 6–13 August 2023 · here: red warning, 4 days at orange or red
- Rain and storms across much of Spain, 2–4 September 2023 · here: red warning, 3 days at orange or red
- August 2025 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 3–18 August 2025 · here: orange warning, 12 days at orange or red
- July 2022 heatwave: heat across much of Spain, 9–18 July 2022 · here: orange warning, 7 days at orange or red
Questions about warnings in Metropolitana y Henares
How many days a year does the Metropolitana y Henares zone have a weather warning?
On average, 65 days a year with an AEMET warning from 2019 to 2025, 16 of them orange or red. Spain's median zone has 54.
Is the Metropolitana y Henares zone one of the places in Spain with the most warnings?
It sits mid-table. It ranks 57th 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 Metropolitana y Henares zone?
Heat: 36 days a year on average (2019–2025). Then storms (14) and rain (13).
Which month has the most warnings in the Metropolitana y Henares zone?
July, with 16 warning days on average (2019–2025). The calmest month is February, with 1.0.
Has the Metropolitana y Henares zone ever had a red warning?
Yes: 5 red-warning days since 18 June 2018. The last was on 3 September 2023, for rain.
Which towns get the warnings of the Metropolitana y Henares zone?
41 towns in Madrid, including Madrid, Móstoles and Alcalá de Henares. AEMET warns by zone: they all get the same warnings.
Towns in this zone
- Madrid
- Móstoles
- Alcalá de Henares
- Leganés
- Getafe
- Fuenlabrada
- Alcorcón
- Torrejón de Ardoz
- Alcobendas
- Rivas-Vaciamadrid
- Las Rozas de Madrid
- San Sebastián de los Reyes
- Pozuelo de Alarcón
- Coslada
- Majadahonda
- Boadilla del Monte
- Arganda del Rey
- Tres Cantos
- San Fernando de Henares
- Villaviciosa de Odón
- Paracuellos de Jarama
- Mejorada del Campo
- Algete
- Villalbilla
- Meco
- Velilla de San Antonio
- Daganzo de Arriba
- Loeches
- Camarma de Esteruelas
- Torres de la Alameda
- Cobeña
- Fuente el Saz de Jarama
- Campo Real
Bad-weather guides
- Bad weather in Madrid: 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 Madrid
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