Madrid’s poor neighbourhoods clamour for more trees to cool streets in deadly heatwaves

FILE PHOTO: People protect themselves with an umbrella during a heatwave in Madrid, Spain, August 5, 2025. REUTERS/Juan Medina/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) -As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain's longest-ever heatwaves, the temperature on a street in one of its poorest neighbourhoods - Puente de Vallecas - measured 41.4 degrees Celsius (106.5 Fahrenheit) by early afternoon.

A few hundred metres down the street it was 38.6 C.