The Bonfires Conclude with Record-Breaking Heat: 28 Degrees Average in Alicante

These Bonfires not only stand out for being the most attended in history, but they also set other records, particularly in terms of weather. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has confirmed what was an open secret for the people of Alicante who enjoyed these Bonfires: it was extremely hot. More so than usual for these significant dates on the city's calendar.

In fact, there has never been such heat between June 20th and 24th in Alicante, the city's main festive days. One must go back to 2005 to find a period almost as warm as the one recorded in 2025. Approximately 20 years later, the average records have been surpassed by one degree, and with successive tropical nights, the average temperature has reached 28 degrees.

Back then, it was 27 degrees, while in the last five years, it has ranged between 24 and 26 degrees. According to Aemet, the 2025 Bonfires are "the warmest since records began" and indicate that the average temperature is almost four degrees above the 1991 to 2020 average and one degree above 2005, which held the record for being the warmest.

On the last day, the maximum temperatures in the city exceeded 33 degrees. With continuous tropical nights, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has analyzed the period from the 20th to the 24th, which has been classified as "extremely warm," the first with this label in the series.

In fact, last year, temperatures were "warm for the date," while at the beginning of the decade, they were "very warm." Before the 2020s, Aemet's records showed normal averages and even "cold" and "very cold" with variations of eight degrees on average from one year to the next.

In Aemet's graph, most of the warm peaks of average temperatures, exceeding 25 degrees, are found from 1990 onwards, with a concentration also in the 1960s and 1930s. However, there has never been a peak as high as in 2025.

Thus, the agency insists that "computing the data since 1856 from the various observatories that operated back then in the city, there has not been a period from June 20th to 24th as warm as 2025 in Alicante."