Barcelona in January
Around 10 °C by day, sea 14.1 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 2 out of 5 against 4.
January in Barcelona is 10 °C by day, sea at 14.1 °C. Load is 2 out of 5 — the year's low, shared with February. For these two months the city belongs to the people who live in it.
January and February are the months the winter liveability column exists for. Barcelona scores 5 out of 5, and that is not about weather: 10 °C by day is chilly. It is about the metro, the markets, the doctors and the schools all running in January, and people being out on the street. Almost half the places in our base hold the top winter score — in the rest something closes for the winter, and anyone who picked a town from a summer trip finds that out in January. Barcelona is 5 out of 5 for living without a car — which matters more in winter than in summer.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | 10 | 14.1 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 4 595appraised |
| Mataró | 10 | 13.9 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 2 512appraised |
| Badalona | 10 | 14.1 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 2 769appraised |
| Castelldefels | 10 | 14.3 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 4 327appraised |
| Sitges | 10 | 14.3 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 4 924appraised |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 56 rainy days a year, 68% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.