Benidorm in January
Around 12 °C by day, sea 15.3 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 5.
January in Benidorm is 12 °C by day and 15.3 °C in the sea. Too cold to swim, but the town is full: load 3 out of 5, the same as in March and November, and that is not a coincidence.
Benidorm is one of the few resorts on this coast that does not sit the winter out but works for it. People come here to winter, and everything is arranged for that: places open, transport running, doctors seeing patients. Hence a winter score of 4 out of 5. Foreign residents make up 34.8%, international schools: 1, the hospital is 17 minutes away and the airport 50. January is the month when that difference needs no explaining.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benidorm | 12 | 15.3 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 213appraised |
| Torrevieja | 12 | 15.4 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 241appraised |
| Alicante | 12 | 15.2 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 272appraised |
| Santa Pola | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 604appraised |
| El Campello | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 824appraised |
| Dénia | 12 | 15.1 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 989appraised |
| Calpe / Calp | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 258appraised |
| Orihuela Costa | 12 | 15.4 | 1/5 | 3/5 | 3 348asking |
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: 40 rainy days a year, 67% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.