Will it rain during Holy Week?

The week starts with stable time in much of the country, although some areas will experience more cloudiness and even some very isolated precipitation. However, this calm may not last long. For the mid -week, important change is expected due to the Approach of an Atlantic storm that will first affect the Canary Islands and, subsequently, will approach the southwest of the Peninsula. If these forecasts are met, The first Easter weekend could be marked by unstable time in numerous communities.

This Monday, stable time will prevail in large areas of the country, with many hours of sun and temperatures that will exceed 20 degrees in large places. The prediction of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), indicates that a stable day with little cloudy or clear in almost all of Spain is expected, except for some weak rains in the southwest peninsular. In the northern peninsular half, the skies will predominate from the early hours, with the absence of precipitation and without high cloud development or evolution.

During the morning the formation of fogs and low clouds in the valleys of the Southwest and in the province of Lugo is expected, as well as low clouds in areas of the northeastern end, where they can persist temporarily. The Canary Islands will maintain stability, with skies mostly clear in all islands and without rainfall.

The maximum temperatures will experience a moderate ascent, except in the Mediterranean and Balearic slope, where few changes or light decreases are expected, more intense on the North Mediterranean coast. The minimums will rise in general, especially in mountainous areas of the South, while in Pyrenees a night thermal descent is expected. Hmore heat in Murcia and Ourense (27 degrees), and Córdoba and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (25)while softening mainly in San Sebastián and Santander (17), and Segovia (18).

This stability situation will be maintained during the day on Tuesday, although without ruling out any possible showers in the Mediterranean and Balearic Islands. These showers could go to more in the Mediterranean area on Wednesday. They will also upload them on Tuesday, and Wednesday, they will not vary too much or they would go down in the Nordestea. 25 degrees will be exceeded in the valleys of Los Ríos del Sur and also in southern Galicia. As of Thursday, the Aemet points to new instability with showers in the Mediterranean area and points of the southern peninsula that could continue during the weekend in large areas of the Peninsula.

The rain gains prominence on the first weekend of Easter

On the other hand, Eltiempo.es advances that as of Wednesday, rainfall will begin to register in areas of the peninsular interior. Nevertheless, It will be especially between Thursday and the weekend when the rains charge greater prominence, extending progressively from the southwest to the east of the peninsula.

According to the forecast of the weather portal, During the first weekend of Holy Week, rainfall will be more frequent in half peninsular, although with the pass. In the Mediterranean slope there are no such intense rains, although On Sunday some showers could appear in communities such as the Balearic Islands.

In general, the European model foresees a slightly rainily more rainy week throughout the country. This wet anomaly is also detected in both archipelagos. After Holy Week, normality in our country is expected to dominate, with slight warm anomalies in the north and both archipelagos between April 28 and May 5. Negative precipitation anomalies in the Canary Islands will also occur.

As for temperatures, the latest updates of the models for the dates of this Holy Week 2025, the maps suggest that most of the Iberian Peninsula will experience temperatures within the normal values ​​for this time of year. However, some areas of the Mediterranean coast, such as the Valencian Community, Murcia, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, as well as the Canary Islands, could record slightly warmer temperatures than usual. On the other hand, in Extremadura, west of Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia we could have temperatures slightly below the average.