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Spain sweltered under hottest summer on record in 2025, weather agency says
Spain's 2025 summer averaged 24.2°C, 2.1°C above the 1991-2020 average, with wildfires burning 382,000 hectares, surpassing last year's record, officials reported.
- Spain experienced its hottest summer on record, with an average temperature of 24.2 C from June 1 to Aug. 31, according to Spain's national weather service.
- A single-day record temperature of 45.8 C was recorded in Jerez de la Frontera on Aug. 17, during a heat wave that affected the region.
- Wildfires burned a record 382,000 hectares this summer, exceeding the previous record of 306,000 hectares in 2022, according to the European Union's European Forest Fire Information System.
- The Mediterranean region is heating up 20% faster than the global average, as stated by the United Nations.
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Wildfires in the EU have now destroyed an area roughly the size of Friesland, Groningen and Flevoland combined.
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Spain sweltered under hottest summer on record
Spain says that this summer was the hottest on record for the country. Spain's national weather service said Tuesday that the country had an average temperature of 24.2 degrees Celsius or 75.5 degrees Fahrenheit between June 1 and Aug. 31.
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According to Spain's national meteorological service, 9 of the ten hottest summers recorded in Spain since 1961 were in the 21st century.
This year was the hottest summer in the country so far, with 33 out of 90 days of heat waves.
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