Alicante in January
Around 12 °C by day, sea 15.2 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 2 of 4.
January in Alicante is 12 °C by day and 15.2 °C in the sea. Load is 2 out of 4 — the year's low along with February, and for these two months the city belongs to the people who live in it.
Alicante holds a winter score of 5 out of 5, and January shows what it is made of. Not the weather: 12 °C by day is chilly. It is the university, the port, the market, a hospital 10 minutes away and 5 international schools that run in January exactly as they do in June. On the Costa Blanca only Alicante holds the top winter score — out of twelve places on that coast in our base. In the others part of what works in summer closes for the winter.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante | 12 | 15.2 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 251 |
| Torrevieja | 12 | 15.4 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 169 |
| Santa Pola | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 486 |
| Dénia | 12 | 15.1 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 826 |
| El Campello | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 906 |
| Calpe / Calp | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 004 |
| Benidorm | 12 | 15.3 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 079 |
| Orihuela Costa | 12 | 15.4 | 1/5 | 3/5 | 3 348 |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 estimate: are places open, does transport run, is anyone about between November and March. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 34 rainy days a year, 65% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.