Climate Change

Spain Records Hottest Summer

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A group of women cover themselves with umbrellas during a heat wave in Madrid on Aug. 12.

The Associated Press

0:30 JST, September 24, 2025

MADRID (AP) — Spain said on Sept. 16 that this summer was the hottest on record for the southern European nation, which like the entire Mediterranean region is being hard hit by climate change.

Spain’s national weather service said that the country had an average temperature of 24.2 C between June 1 and Aug. 31. That is the highest temperature since the service started keeping records in 1961. The previous record was 24.1 C from the summer of 2022.

This summer was also 2.1 C hotter than the national average from 1991-2020.

The highest single-day temperature of 45.8 C was recorded in Jerez de la Frontera, in southern Spain, on Aug. 17 during a heat wave.

The Mediterranean region is heating up 20% faster than the global average, according to the United Nations.