Murcia records its three warmest years since records began

2025 is set to match 2023 as the second-warmest year on record, while 2024 remains the hottest ever recorded

We all love the Mediterranean climate in Spain. It’s one of the main reasons so many people choose to live here. Long sunny days and mild winters are part of life here in Murcia, but recent figures show that the heat is becoming more intense and more persistent than many people realise.

Murcia is set to record its third-hottest year in a row, showing a steady rise in temperatures. Figures from Spain’s state weather agency, AEMET, put the 2025 average at 17.9ºC, matching 2023 as the second-warmest year on record. Only 2024 was hotter, with averages passing 18ºC for the first time. Together, these numbers make the last three years the warmest ever recorded in the Region.

Autumn in Murcia was also unusually warm. Between September and November, the average temperature reached 18.6 °C, which is 1.4 °C above the seasonal average and makes it the sixth warmest autumn in the last 65 years. The higher figures were mainly driven by daytime temperatures, which averaged 24.3 °C, approximately 1.5 °C above normal. But night-time temperatures were also higher than expected, with an average of 12.9 ºC.

There were several warm spells during the autumn months, both long-lasting and intense. The highest temperature of the season, 38.5ºC, was recorded at the Alcantarilla weather station on September 8. AEMET also recorded an unusually high number of tropical nights, when temperatures do not drop below 20ºC. San Javier and Murcia city each logged 15 tropical nights, while Alcantarilla recorded 12.

Rainfall was also below average. Despite heavy rain episodes in October, including a major DANA storm, autumn rainfall reached just over half of the usual amount. November was especially dry, making this autumn one of the driest of the century so far.

Across Spain, AEMET says autumn 2025 was warm and dry, continuing the trend of high temperatures and below-average rainfall seen all year.

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