The most hot days Bilbao has recorded by this date.
summer of 1961-19902.8
this summer20
Hot here means 33.0 °C or above, a level about one summer day in twenty used to reach at this station between 1971 and 2000. The bar has not moved; the number of days clearing it has. Every year is counted to 8 August, so a part-finished summer is never set against complete ones. That threshold is Bilbao's own. It is not a national standard and it is not comparable with another city's: every figure on this page is measured against this station and nothing else.
16 nights so far that never dropped below 20 °C. No multiple is quoted here. Bilbao averages about 0.4 a year, and dividing by a base that thin produces a large number and no evidence. 24 of the 42 cities are gated this way.
The hottest day of Bilbao's year, to the same date. 2026 is the hottest on this record too, by this date, at 42.7 °C. Both the count and the peak are records here, which is not true everywhere: a count and a peak are separate claims and each carries its own rank. The previous best was 42.0 °C in 1947, the dot on the drop line, and a typical summer here peaks at 36.5 °C.
42 cities are measured this way, each against its own record. See them on the map