10/09/2026 - 10:27 GMT+2
Spain has surpassed the scorching summer of 2022, with a total of 61 heatwave days endured this year, compared with 41 previously, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
The summer of 2026 has also recorded an average temperature of 24.5°C, making it the hottest since records began in 1961 and surpassing last year, 2025, by 0.3°C, and 2.4°C above the long-term average.
Aemet recalls that the 10 hottest summers on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and seven of the eight warmest have taken place since 2015. The agency also warns that the meteorological summer keeps getting longer.
"At the end of May, temperatures typical of July were recorded across large areas of the country. And then, in September, already in the meteorological autumn, there was another heatwave which, provisionally, ran from the 2nd to the 7th, lasting six days and affecting 16 provinces."
