What is the main place where rain falls in Spain? Here is a map showing the areas that have received the most rainfall this month.

It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. Expect unusual rainfall in March 2020 In some Spanish cities, it is breaking records and in many of them it is well above average. In many provincial capitalsIn just half a week, the average rainfall for the entire month was exceeded, and several times, it was even higher. Even the historical maximum values of March were surpassed.

The first half of the month is March. Madrid City sat on record highs in comparison to a whole month of march. ABC calculated that between 1 March and 16th of 2025, MadridRetiro recorded 148.4mm of accumulated rainfall, using open-source data from Aemet. The Spanish capital has a record of 140.7 millimetres for the third month in 2018 from 1 to 31 march. In 2025, it only took half a year to surpass the March record with 14 days of rain, and also to surpass the 1936 record of 22 days in March.

This map compares the average and extreme values of the days of rain, as well as the amount of water that has accumulated, from 1 March 2025 to 16 march 2025. ABC has analysed the Aemet open-source data and taken into consideration the data of the closest stations to the capitals in each province.

Historic Records

Madrid Albacete, Guadalajara The following are some examples of how to get started: Huelva Other cities have only needed a half-month to beat their records of water accumulated in a whole month. Albacete had a record rainfall of half a century. It rained in Albacete on 15 out of the 16 first days of the month. Guadalajara beat its record in terms of water accumulated, but was still two days short of beating the record in terms of number of rainy days in the third month.

The rain forecast for the coming days will make it easy for many cities, including Guadalajara to surpass the previous record. Huesca Huesca The following are some examples of how to get started: Teruel Three days is all it takes to achieve your goal Almeria It is just four days away.

In the next few days, rain will be forecast to bring about record-breaking rainfall in many cities. Logroño, Soria, Murcia, Lérida, Seville, Palma de Mallorca The following are some examples of how to get started: Avila There are only a few umbrella days left before they surpass their previous highs.

Above its historical mean

Many provincial cities, however, have exceeded their monthly records. Cities like Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Seville The following are some examples of how to get started: MalagaIn only half a year, scores of provincial capitals have received more rainfall than is normal for March. They have also experienced more rainy days that the average for the month.

Other provincial capitals such as Zaragoza, Valladolid, Pamplona Santander has exceeded its normal number of wet days in March by a half-month, but not the total precipitation. In SantanderThe Cantabrian Coast and the Northwest of the Spanish mainland have experienced a much lower amount of precipitation than normal this month, despite the fact that the number of rainy day has exceeded the average.

Below its historic average

Paradoxically wet Spain has been relatively drier in some places this month than in other areas in 2025. In mid-March, despite being used to more rain than usual in previous years, they are still well below their normal levels and far away from any records. Galicia The following are some examples of how to get started: Asturias are even far from reaching their average values, and to a lesser extent also Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa. The explanation is in the Blocking anticyclone Over the British Isles, the squalls are moving further south than normal.

The Galician and Cantabrian coast values are below normal, meaning that despite a rainy month in Spain, no records were set. The 97mm of rain accumulated throughout the country between 1 and 16 March are far from the 135mm reached in the first half of March 2018, according to statements by Aemet spokesman Rubén del Campo, reported by Europa Press. They are still 64% higher than what is usually expected in March.

Water reserves in reservoirs

Increased reservoir water in Spain is a result of heavy rains that occurred in March. In Spain, the reservoirs are 66% full, including hydroelectric ones, which is 5 points higher than last weekend. Reservoirs used for consumption, i.e. The reservoirs for human and agriculture use are 61%. This is fourteen percentage points more than the previous year and four points higher than the average of the last decade.

Methodology

Aemet, Spain’s national weather agency, has published statistics on normal values, extreme values, and daily values. These are used to calculate the values in this report. The values for Madrid will be those from the Madrid Retiro and for Barcelona those from the Barcelona Fabra stations. The normal or average values are based on the 1981-2010 reference period, while the extreme or record values depend on the age of the measuring station. Although there was no addition of any water, even the values of negligible rain were counted.