Things Spain Loves: Giant Thermometers

Have you ever been walking around the city and you wonder what the temperature is? Or the time? If you are in Spain, you are never far from a giant thermometer that also doubles as a giant digital clock. 

Pretty sure this giant thermometer is located near the Parque de los Príncipes in Sevilla

You can find these giant thermometers in traffic circles, plazas, pedestrian walking areas. Also every Spanish pharmacy has a sign that blinks the time and the temperature, all day long. 

Giant public temperature displays are not really a thing in the US. I mean, sometimes a business might include the temperature on a display. But walking around your average, typical US city, for example, I cannot think of a reliable spot to find out the time and temp.* 

When in Spain, I photograph those giant thermometers all the time and text them to my friends and family, saying "dang it's 40 degrees! *hot face emoji melting emoji* or "BRRRRR it's 0 degrees! *Cold face emoji x 3, snowman emoji, single tear drop emoji*

The city of Huelva recently removed all their thermometers at once because they were "old", which is a real problem because how can people fully enjoy a polar vortex if you cannot photograph yourself shivering next to a giant thermometer? Will the giant Spanish city thermometer become the next public phone booth, doomed to disappear because we all have phones in our pockets with the weather app? *single teardrop emoji*

*(Another thing that I love in Spain that does not really exist in the US, worthy of its own blog post, are the church bells. Yes there are churches and there are bells, but nothing like the consistent hourly (or more) chimes of many churches chiming all over the Iberian Peninsula.)