Costa Blanca in January
Around 12 °C by day, sea 15.4 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 1 out of 5 against 5.
January on the Costa Blanca is 12 °C by day and 15.4 °C in the sea. Load is 1 out of 5, the year's floor.
January shows who lives here all year. Plenty of northerners winter on this shore and some of them stop leaving: Torrevieja has 49.5% foreign residents, with English and Swedish the largest communities. The year brings 2,850 hours of sun and winter humidity of 66%. Torrevieja's winter score is 4 out of 5 and Alicante's 5: in the city January runs as usual, in a resort town it differs a lot.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Benidorm | 12 | 15.3 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 213appraised |
| Calpe / Calp | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 258appraised |
| Orihuela Costa | 12 | 15.4 | 1/5 | 3/5 | 3 348asking |
| Guardamar del Segura | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 3/5 | 3 363asking |
| Altea | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 423asking |
| Jávea / Xàbia | 12 | 15.1 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 489appraised |
| Moraira | 12 | 15.2 | 1/5 | 3/5 | 3 956asking |
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: 35 rainy days a year, 66% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.