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STORY: :: People flock to Spain's cooler northern

coast to escape the sweltering heat

TOURIST FROM GERMANY: “I like the weather because it’s not too hot, but I think the sun could show a bit more today, so I can go to the beach, yeah. In Cologne, I live in Cologne, and the weather is very bad, and I think it’s better here.”

:: Jose Antonio Aranda, Director, Basque weather agency Euskalmet

“This year, in the Cantabrico, we are having, up until now, very fresh temperatures, with cloudy skies, something that isn’t happening in the south, in the Mediterranean, in the Malaga region. We are having the type of weather we had decades ago, the typical type of weather we had, 30, 40, 50 years ago. It’s not the weather we have been having in recent years, which has been hotter in the Cantabrico.”

While Mediterranean resorts are experiencing record summer temperatures, towns on Spain’s northern coast have been enjoying relatively mild weather, as high heat from Spain’s interior draws on relatively cool Cantabrian Sea temperatures, delivering sea breezes and providing cloud cover.

Few clouds were to be seen on the same day in the Mediterranean holiday city of Malaga where tourists walked the streets in swimsuits.