Issued: 0530hrs Friday 26th December 2025
Duty forecaster: Dan Graves

High pressure near Iceland keeps central and northwest Europe the most settled, bright in the southeast.

Friday
Some coastal showers for the Iberia, more frequent at first for the Spanish east coast, and then over the Portuguese coast later in the day. Frequent showers for the Balearics, Sardinia and Corsica, as well as Malta and southern Italy; brighter north Italy. Dry with a mix of cloud and sun for the Balkan States. Some patchy rain at first for Greece, while eastern Türkiye will see outbreaks of snow. Some showers for Cyprus.
A mostly dry bright day for France, but some rain is expected in the far south. Dry, bright, and breezy for the British Isles, the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Cloudier for Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland, but remaining dry here. A cloudy day for Romania perhaps with some patchy sleet over the eastern parts. Same for Bulgaria.
Fine and bright in Denmark and southern parts of Sweden and Norway. Windy with bright conditions for Finland and the Baltic States. Windier in northern Scandinavia with wintry showers into northwest Norway.

Saturday
More rain in Iberia, locally heavy east and south, this rain extending across the Balearics and Sardinia. Drier and increasingly bright in Corsica and Italy. Similarly sunny and fine for the Balkan States and Greece, just some patchy rain in the Aegean Sea and the southeast cost. Fine in western Türkiye, snow in the mountains central and east.
A bright, breezy across most of central and western Europe. Cloud increasingly drifts into northern parts of the Netherlands and Germany, a generally cloudier and windier day in Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. Patchy snow in eastern Poland later in the day, risk of this snow becoming more widespread in Belarus.
More fine weather in Denmark and breezy. Frequent snow showers and very strong winds across central and northern Norway, brighter in the south. Bright in Sweden too but powerful winds here too. Windy with snow in northern Finland, the snow more patchy in the south. Windy with patchy rain and snow in the Baltic States.