After a few weeks of May marked by storms and unusually low temperatures for the time, time in Spain takes a radical turn. In the next days, The country will live an episode of intense heat, with temperatures well above the usual for these dates.
The thermal ascent will be generalized due to the Arrival of a very warm mass of air, which will reheat when crossing the peninsula, leaving thermal values more typical of summer than from the late spring. It is not ruled out that several temperature records are bathed for a month of May.
The episode of high temperatures will reach a new peak this Tuesday, when the thermometers masquer 38 degrees in areas of the Guadalquivir is expected. Already on Monday, 35 degrees were exceeded for the first time so far from 2025 in Spain, specifically in Andalusia.
According to AEMET data collected by Servimedia, six weather stations in the province of Seville exceeded 35 ºC: 36.5 in Tablada, 35.9 at the capital of the capital, 35.7 in Carmona, 35.3 in Fuentes de Andalucía and 35.2 in Carrión de los Céspedes and Morón de la Frontera. Similar values were also recorded in other points of the southern peninsular, such as Andújar (36.0), Palmera Fuente (35.6), the Córdoba Airport (35.5) and Montoro (35,4).
For this Tuesday, temperatures will only fall slightly in the Strait, the Huelva coast and western Alborán, while they will barely vary in the Mediterranean area and the archipelagos. The hottest capitals could be Seville (37 ° C), Córdoba (36 ° C) and Jaén (35 ° C), in contrast to cities of the north such as A Coruña, San Sebastián and Santander, where the 20 ° C, and Oviedo, with 21 ° C.
Anticyclonic time will persist on Tuesday in almost the entire country, with a predominance of little cloudy or clear skies and a practice absence of precipitations. Only low clouds are expected in the morning in areas of the peninsular northern end, with probable morning fog banks scattered inside the Cantabrian, Galicia, Alto Ebro, the north of the Iberian and Catalonia, with a tendency to clear.
In the afternoon, clouds of evolution could develop in points of La Mancha and in Mountains of the East, Center and Northwest, with the possibility of some occasional show in the Eastern Pyrenees. There will also be clouds or cloud intervals in northern the Canary Islands.
A very warm air mass
He Wednesday It will be a day marked by atmospheric stability, with clear skies and an almost total absence of rainfall, except for some punctual chaparrón in mountain areas. From that day, CIt will omit to arrive a mass of warm air of subtropical origin, which will cause a new increase in temperatures, both Wednesday and Thursday.
A very warm atmosphere is expected for the time of year, practically summery, with maximum temperatures that will exceed between 5 and 10 degrees normal values by the end of May in much of the countrys. In addition, the first tropical nights will begin to register, those in which the minimums do not fall from the 20 ° C, although initially they will be limited to isolated points of the interior of Andalusia and areas of the Mediterranean coast.
During this day the 32 ° C will be exceeded on the northern plateau, 34 to 36 ° C in the northeast, the central area and the southern half, and 36 to 38 ° C in the Guadiana Valley. Badajoz will reach 37 ° C and, in the Guadalquivir Valley, 38 ° C could be exceeded. There is even the possibility that Seville registers 40 ° C, a very unusual value in the Andalusian capital during the month of May. Since 1951, only that figure has been reached twice: May 2015 and May 2022. If it is not reached this Wednesday, it is not ruled out that it occurs in the following days.
On Thursday the thermal escalation will continue on an equally dry and stable day. The increase in temperatures will be remarkable throughout the country, especially in the northern peninsular third. Andalusia and part of Extremadura will already wake up with generalized tropical nights. The maximums will continue between 5 and 10 degrees above the usual, and in some areas, even more.
The hottest days
This situation will be repeated during Friday and Saturday, with both days positioning itself as the hottest in the episode. On Friday a thermal rebound is expected in the east peninsular and in the Balearic Islands. Temperatures will exceed 34 ° C on the Northern Plateau, will reach 36 ° C or more in the Ebro Valley and will be similar in the center and south of the Peninsula.
In cities such as Badajoz, Córdoba or Seville, 38 to 40 ° C will be around again. Even in the Peninsular North, cities such as Bilbao will reach 30 ° C, although the atmosphere will be cooler in other Cantabrian locations such as Santander or San Sebastián, where 25 ° C will not be exceeded.