July 01, 2026
Spain recorded 1,029 excess deaths last month attributable to heat, official data showed on Wednesday, as a five-day heatwave with temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius made it the second-hottest month of June on record.
• Data on the Health Ministry's daily mortality monitoring system MoMo showed that June had the most deaths attributed to heat since the same month in 2015.
• Average temperatures last month were 3.2 degrees higher than normal, weather agency AEMET said, making it the second-hottest June on record after June 2025.
• At the heatwave's peak on Jun 23, 35.7 million people — roughly 73 percent of the country's population — were exposed to health risks due to the heat; 38 percent of them faced high risk.
