Aemet confirms that Spain has experienced the warmest summer since records began

The summer of 2025, in which two long heat waves have been recorded on the Peninsula, displaces that of 2022 by 0.1 degrees.
The data confirm the suffocating feeling that many citizens have had during this summer of fire and heat in much of the country: the summer of 2025 has been the hottest recorded so far in mainland Spain. This is indicated by the climate balance for the summer (from June 1 to August 31) prepared by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). This state entity plans to present this document this Tuesday, but the third vice-president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, has advanced on her social networks the main conclusions that Aemet was going to offer. The latest information from this agency, which depends precisely on Ecological Transition, pointed out that the summer of 2025 was tied with that of 2022, which had also been “extremely warm”, according to the terminology used by this state entity. But once the final data have been adjusted, Aemet concludes that this year’s has been 0.1 degrees Celsius hotter, which marks the record since the agency’s records began in 1961.

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