End of summer holidays to Spain as temperatures could hit 50°C in next decade

Europe is set to experience another heatwave next week, with temperatures in Spain expected to hit close to 40°C.

It also points to a trend of popular European getaways getting dangerously hot, making them unsafe to travel to for summer holidays.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8°C in Sicily in 2021. But there’s a chance we could soon hit the 50°C threshold, said Liz Bently, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society.

“We’ve seen temperatures over 40°C already [this year], and we’re only in June”, Bently said. “We’ve never seen temperatures that high across Europe that early in the year, so it does set the scene for a record-breaking summer.”

“As our climate continues to warm, I think it’s looking pretty likely that in the next decade we will see 50 degrees somewhere across the European continent,” she said. “It’s likely that that threshold will be broken in the next decade.”