Spain has endured its hottest summer since records began in 1961, with weeks of heatwaves pushing temperatures above 45C and fuelling the country’s worst wildfire season in three decades, the state weather agency has said.
The national meteorological service AEMET said the summer of 2025 was 2.1C hotter than the 1991-2020 average, surpassing the previous record set in 2022 by 0.1C. The average temperature for June to August reached 24.2C, the highest in more than six decades of data.
