Usagevpn.com – A thermometer in the small southwestern town of El Granado climbed to 45.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday, matching the September record first established in Montoro back in 2016. Both settlements sit within Andalusia, the sun-baked region along Spain’s southern coast where summer temperatures routinely push past 40 degrees. Yet a reading of nearly 46 degrees in early September — well into autumn — marks a departure from what residents of the area have historically experienced during that stretch of the calendar.

The measurement, confirmed by Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), also stood as the single highest temperature logged anywhere in the country up to that point in 2026. For much of the preceding week, a broad band of summer-grade heat above 40 degrees had rolled across the southern and western provinces, turning what should have been a cooling period into a prolonged thermal event.…