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Barcelona records its warmest April ever with May-like temperatures
Observatori Fabra confirms that Barcelona has recorded its warmest April ever, with a provisional average of 17.4°C, 3.7 degrees above usual and even above May’s climate average.
Barcelona has experienced the warmest April ever recorded. The average temperature has exceeded the previous record by more than one degree. It has even been above the usual average for May. Extreme heat and lack of rain mark a historic month.
April has left its mark on Barcelona, changing the usual perception of spring weather. People walking through the city have noticed unusual warmth, more typical of late spring than of a transitional month. Observatori Fabra – RACAB has confirmed that this April has been the warmest since records began, exceeding the previous record by almost one and a half degrees and standing 3.7 ºC above the month’s usual average.
The provisional average temperature has reached 17.4 ºC, a figure that not only shatters the previous record of 16.1 ºC (set just three years ago), but also exceeds May’s climatic average of 17.2 ºC. This is particularly striking, since only one in every four Mays in the past 112 years has been warmer than this April.
The phenomenon is not limited to Observatori Fabra. In Les Corts, the Meteocat station has also broken its own record, with an average of 17.9 ºC, exceeding the previous high from 2011 by one tenth of a degree and standing two degrees above April’s average in that area.
This April has brought other milestones: the highest minimum temperature for this month has been recorded, along with the greatest number of days with highs equal to or above 25 ºC. In addition, the thermal anomaly adds to a recent trend in the city, where months such as June 2025 and February 2024 also broke historic records, with deviations of up to 4.5 ºC from their usual averages.
The other side of this April has been scant rainfall. At Observatori Fabra, barely 16 litres per square metre have been collected, far from the nearly 63 litres that usually fall in this month, the rainiest of spring. In Les Corts, the situation has been similar, with rainfall barely reaching 18 litres, concentrated in a single episode in the middle of the month and a few muddy drops at the end.
The impact of this atypical April is reflected in the city’s daily life: full terraces, parks with a summer atmosphere and a widespread feeling that the calendar has moved ahead. The exceptional temperatures and lack of rain revive the debate on climate change and its immediate effects in Barcelona.
Observatori Fabra, located in the Collserola range, is one of Barcelona’s historic reference points for meteorological monitoring. Founded in 1904, it has documented the city’s main climatic episodes for more than a century. Its records make it possible to compare the evolution of temperatures and rainfall, and are key to understanding how Barcelona’s climate has been changing in recent decades.
🆕 Barcelona is experiencing a historic April because of the heat. Observatori Fabra recorded a record minimum of 19.0 ºC, while the provisional monthly average was heading towards a value far above normal and rainfall remained well below average.