- 2d ago
Spain's rainfall since October stands at 53 l/m2, about 37% below normal
AEMET data show 53 l/m2 of rain fell in Spain from the start of the hydrological year to 3 November, against a normal 84 l/m2 for the period.
- Oct 28
Spain's All Saints' weekend brings Samaín, Soria's Ánimas festival and spooky tours
Galician Samaín, Soria's Festival de las Ánimas and the Luz de las Ánimas in Trasmoz are all set for the 31 October weekend, while KAYAK reports rising flight searches for the long weekend.
- Oct 27
Franco heirs' auction of Pazo de Meirás objects opens with sales up to 2,750 euros
Magna Art Auctions began selling 689 objects removed from the Pazo de Meirás in Madrid on 27 October 2026, with the first hour's top lot fetching 2,750 euros. The sale was commissioned by the Martínez-Bordiú Franco family after courts allowed them to take the pieces from the Galician palace.
- Oct 23
GNR seizes two Kalashnikovs, a boat and about 10,000 litres of fuel in coastal raids
Four overnight operations along Portugal's coast, from Esposende to the Algarve, targeted support for maritime drug trafficking on 21 and 22 October. The largest single haul was at Fonte Boa in Esposende, where a 41-year-old man was detained and at least three suspects fled on foot.
- Oct 23
Navarra tops Spain's 2025 quality of life index as Canarias stays at the bottom
Spain's score rose to 101.74 points in 2025, according to INE data published Friday, 23 October. Navarra kept first place at 105.43 points, while Canarias scored 99.40, above only Ceuta and Melilla.
- Oct 23
Storm Austen set to bring orange coastal alerts and waves over 7 m to northern Spain
AEMET has placed parts of Spain's northern coast under orange warnings for Friday, 23 October, with waves forecast up to 8 metres in Cantabria and the Basque Country.
- Oct 21
Protests against Vox rally in A Coruña end in clashes and three arrests
Clashes broke out in A Coruña on 21 October as a counter-protest against a Vox event at María Pita turned violent. Parties now trade blame, and Vox has taken the government delegate in Galicia to court.
- Oct 15
Magnitude 4.2 earthquake shakes El Bierzo and Galicia with no damage reported
The IGN placed the epicentre near Benuza in León at 22:34 on Thursday, 15 October, and a sequence of aftershocks followed into early Friday.
- Oct 15
Andalusia has Spain's highest poverty risk at 34.7% in EAPN's 2026 report
Spain's AROPE poverty and exclusion rate stands at 25.7%, with regional gaps of up to 20 points, according to the EAPN-ES report published on 15 October 2026.
- Oct 14
Spain's inflation rises to 4.9% in September as diesel gets 35.7% dearer in a year
Spain's consumer price index rose 4.9% year on year in September, its highest level since February 2023, while diesel has become more expensive than petrol on average.
- Oct 9
Netflix prepares Daniel Sancho miniseries as Isabel Fuentes documentary arrives 6 November
Netflix will release the documentary Desprotexida: El crimen de Pazos on 6 November, a week before the fiction series El crimen de Pazos on 13 November. A separate miniseries on the Daniel Sancho case, starring Martiño Rivas, is set to be filmed in Thailand and Spain.
- Oct 9
EU picks 46 strategic mineral projects amid China dependence, needing €21.1 billion
The European Commission chose 46 projects across 16 member states to speed permitting and help developers win funding. The projects are expected to need about €21.1 billion in capital investment as the bloc tries to reduce its reliance on China.
- Oct 8
Galician nationalist Xosé Manuel Beiras dies at 90, farewell held in Santiago de Compostela
Beiras died on Thursday aged 90. On Friday his coffin lay at Santiago's Museo do Pobo Galego, where politicians from several parties paid tribute before his burial at Boisaca.
- Oct 1
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa receives Josep Piqué prize in Galicia and warns of multilateral crisis
Spain's King Felipe VI presented the 2026 Josep Piqué Prize to former Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the eighth La Toja Forum in Galicia, where political leaders discussed the breakdown of international order.
- Oct 1
Murcia leads Spanish regional growth at 3.8% as Madrid reaches 20% of national GDP in 2025
National data from INE shows all Spanish regions grew faster than the EU average of 1.4% in 2025, though per capita income disparities persisted between Madrid and southern territories.
- Oct 1
Galicia surgical wait times rise by 20 days to 89.5-day average amid medical strikes
The Galician Health Service reported average surgical delays of 89.5 days for the first half of 2026, with strike action leading to 215,000 cancelled medical procedures.
