Is El Escorial safe? Spain travel risk
Is El Escorial safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
El Escorial scores 30/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The US State Department rates Spain Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 1 Aug 2026); the UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
El Escorial scores 30/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Spain (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to El Escorial: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (35/100) and natural hazards (38/100).
A score of 30 is higher than the scores of 32% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Territorial & Position Context
Found at 40.5817° N, 4.1258° W within Madrid, El Escorial is situated 40.1 km ESE of Madrid at an altitude of 917 m.
Madrid
40.5817° N, 4.1258° W
917 m
Europe/Madrid
16,618
Critical Services & Regional Transit
Adjacent Localities in Spain
Climate by Month
Hottest: August (32 °C avg high); Wettest: November (66 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 10° | 11° | 15° | 18° | 21° | 27° | 32° | 32° | 26° | 20° | 14° | 10° |
| Low °C | 1° | 2° | 4° | 6° | 9° | 15° | 18° | 19° | 15° | 10° | 5° | 2° |
| Rain mm | 39 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 43 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 54 | 66 | 49 |
Normals: Madrid (40.1 km away).
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wildfires | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
Most wildfire events within 100 km of El Escorial happened in July (2 of 2 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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