Spain's 2025 summer was hottest on record, state weather agency says

FILE PHOTO: Tourists cover themselves with umbrellas while visiting Plaza Mayor square during a heatwave in Madrid, Spain, August 4, 2025. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) -This summer was Spain's hottest since records began in 1961, as the country experienced more than a month of heatwaves caused by climate change that helped stoke its worst season of wildfires in three decades.

The summer of 2025 was 2.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1991-2020 average and surpassed the previous warmest summer recorded in 2022 by 0.1 degrees, state weather agency AEMET said.