In 2025, the number of days with temperatures above 40C in Spain by June 1 will be double that of all previous days combined.

SPAIN experienced an unprecedented and blistering start to summer. The south saw record-breaking temperatures, sending thermometers above 40C in multiple provinces.

Incredibly, by June 8, Sevilla Airport had already registered four days above 40C – more than in the entire month of June during any previous year since records began in 1951.

Seville has never seen temperatures above 40C for more than two consecutive days before the second half of June.

According to AEMET, Spain’s national weather agency, the scorching early heat has surpassed the number of extreme days compared with all the other years combined over the same period, by 125%.

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It goes some way to dispelling the claims that ‘Spain is always hot in the summer’, and follows what meteorologists are calling an ‘absolutely exceptional’ heat episode.

The mercury reached 42.9C on Sunday, June 8 in Moron de la Frontera just south of Sevilla. Montoro, in Cordoba, was not far behind with 42.7C.

Other towns in Sevilla province scorched past the 42C mark too, including Carmona (42.7C), Fuentes de Andalucía (42.6C), and the airport itself, which also recorded 42.6C.

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On Sunday, around forty AEMET stations in the country reached or exceeded 40C.

The agency confirmed this is the earliest temperature over 42C recorded in Seville. This beats the previous high of 12 June 2012, which was also early in June.

Temperatures in the north are expected rise, despite a cooling trend in southern Spain.

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