Heat Madrid · MADRID, RETIRO · the 2026 summer, complete

30 hot days in Madrid's 2026 summer, 3rd of 106.

In a typical
summer of 1961-1990
1.4
In its 2026
summer
30
Every summer on this thermometer
Hot daysabove 36.4 °C 422101920197620002026
Hot nightsnever below 20 °C 713601920197620002026
Hottest day33 to 41 °C 413339.5 °C40.7 °C
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Hot here means 36.4 °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 counted over the whole window; this season is complete, so no year is cut short. That threshold is Madrid'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.

71 nights that never dropped below 20 °C, against 15.3 in a typical 1961-1990 summer. That is 1st of its 106 summers.

Madrid's hottest day this year, 39.5 °C, is 13th on this record. The previous best is 40.7 °C in 2022, the dot on the drop line. A typical summer here peaks at 37.0 °C. Its hot-day count is 3rd of 106: a count and a peak are different claims, and neither borrows the other's rank.

How these figures are built Heat methodology AEMET OpenData, MADRID, RETIRO, daily minimum and maximum May to August, complete No published station history exists for this service. Compared against a second copy of the same station and no change of instrument was detected. station history Urban site class Hot days, this station's own 95th percentile of July-August maxima, 1971 to 2000 36.4 °C Hot nights, ETCCDI index TR, daily minimum never below 20.0 °C not chosen by us Updated weekly, each Monday whole May to August window, 121 days

54 cities are measured this way, each against its own record. See them on the map