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Calima Season 2025–2026 — Canary Islands

Documented Saharan dust episodes affecting the eight Canary Islands during the 2025–2026 season, with multi-year context from 2020.

Last updated · June 12, 2026 · Season: Nov 1, 2025 – Oct 31, 2026

Season at a glance
  • Episodes12
  • Total days42
  • Peak severityExtreme
  • Peak PM10710 µg/m³

Latest episode ongoing — data will be updated.

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Season episodes
Documented calima episodes for the 2025–2026 season. Episode detection: daily max PM10 ≥ 50 µg/m³ on ≥ 2 islands; gap of ≥ 2 clear days breaks an episode.
StartSeverityPeak PM10Islands
Mar 31, 2026Apr 2, 2026Extreme710 µg/m³8/8
Feb 16, 2026Feb 18, 2026Extreme605 µg/m³7/8
Feb 22, 2026Feb 27, 2026Extreme379 µg/m³8/8
Multi-year context
Total episode-days and peak severity per season since 2022–23, when the Open-Meteo CAMS Global archive begins. Detection: daily max PM10 ≥ 50 µg/m³ on ≥ 2 islands.

Total days

2022–2381d2023–2485d2024–2587d2025–2642d
SeasonEpisodesPeak severityTotal daysNotes
2022–2314Extreme8114 episodes. Extreme Aug–Oct 2023; peak 393 µg/m³ (Sep–Oct).
2023–2419Extreme8519 episodes. Notable 18-day extreme Jan 2024, peak 428 µg/m³.
2024–2519Extreme8719 episodes. Dec 2024 extreme 18 days (peak 523 µg/m³) + Jan 2025 extreme.
2025–2612Extreme42Season in progress. Data from Open-Meteo CAMS archive.
Data sources & methodology

An episode is a run of days when at least two Canary islands record a daily peak PM10 ≥ 50 µg/m³ from Open-Meteo CAMS, with no more than one clear day between calima days. Peak PM10 is the maximum hourly value across all eight islands during the episode window. Severity follows the project-wide thresholds: light ≥ 25, moderate ≥ 50, severe ≥ 100, extreme ≥ 200 µg/m³. Notable earlier episodes such as the February 2020 Supercalima — which closed all 8 Canary airports with PM10 above 2,000 µg/m³ — predate the CAMS Global archive (2022-07-29) and are documented separately.

This report covers only the eight Canary Islands. Mainland Spain has its own atmospheric calima profile and is not included here.

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