Barcelona has experienced a night of anomalous heat in mid-April. The Fabra RACAB Observatory has registered a minimum temperature of 19.0 ºC, the highest value measured in this month in more than one hundred years of historical series.
The record occurred during the night of Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 10, 2026, and leaves behind the previous April record, which until now stood at 18.6 ºC since April 20, 1945. The new mark confirms an episode of unusually high nighttime temperatures in the Catalan capital and its surroundings.
A historic night at the Observatori Fabra
The Fabra Observatory station, one of Barcelona's meteorological reference points, had never recorded such a high minimum in April. The new record exceeds by 0.4 ºC the previous reference, in force for more than eight decades.
The situation already pointed to exceptional values on the previous day. The minimum on April 9 was 18.1 ºC, a figure that by itself ranks among the five warmest April nights in the entire historical series.
Weather change from Sunday
After this episode, the forecast points to a change of scenario in Catalonia. From Sunday afternoon, the arrival of a cold front is expected that will bring rain and a drop in temperatures.
That thermal descent will put an end, at least provisionally, to some nights uncharacteristic of these dates in Barcelona, with records that have already entered into the historical series of the Fabra Observatory.