Overview

• Agencia Estatal de Meteorología data confirm June 2025 as the hottest June in Spain’s recorded history, with an average temperature 3.5 °C above the norm
• MoMo monitoring by Instituto de Salud Carlos III attributes 453 excess deaths to high temperatures between June 21 and July 2, triple the toll from the same period in 2023
• Castilla y León registered 14 fatalities during its first heat wave (June 28–July 1), all victims over 65 and ten of them older than 85
• Conselleria de Sanidad confirmed two heat-stroke deaths this week—a 52-year-old man in Castellón and a 53-year-old woman in Alicante—meeting WHO criteria
• Regional and national health bodies maintain orange alerts across multiple communities, urging strict hydration, shade and cool-room strategies for vulnerable groups