Costa del Sol in January
Around 13 °C by day, sea 15.6 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 1 out of 5 against 5.
January on the Costa del Sol is 13 °C by day and 15.6 °C in the sea. Load is 1 out of 5, as it is all winter.
January is the month the winter liveability column exists for. Along this shore it is either 4 or 5, and right now you can see what the numbers stand for. A five means a working market, doctors seeing patients and people on the street on a weekday. A four means part of what is there is shut until spring. Of the fourteen places on this coast, six hold the top score: Málaga, Vélez-Málaga, Rincón de la Victoria, Alhaurín de la Torre, Estepona and Marbella.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torre del Mar | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 1 581asking |
| Torrox | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 000asking |
| Nerja | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 450asking |
| Alhaurín de la Torre | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 2 736appraised |
| Vélez-Málaga | 13 | 15.6 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 745appraised |
| Málaga | 13 | 15.6 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 3 283appraised |
| Mijas | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 339appraised |
| Manilva | 13 | 15.8 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 450asking |
| Estepona | 13 | 15.8 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 3 453appraised |
| Rincón de la Victoria | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 3 498appraised |
| Fuengirola | 13 | 16 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 711appraised |
| Torremolinos | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 736appraised |
| Benalmádena | 13 | 15.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 779appraised |
| Marbella | 13 | 15.9 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 4 477appraised |
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: 44 rainy days a year, 71% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.