Gran Canaria in January
Around 18.5 °C by day, sea 19.9 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 2 out of 5 against 3.
January on Gran Canaria is 18.5 °C by day and 19.9 °C in the sea. By air this is the year's low point, shared with February, while the water sits just under twenty degrees; its own floor comes in March, at 19.1 °C. Twenty is the line under which few people go in, and January sits all but on it.
January shows the thing summer hides: the island has a real city. Las Palmas is 384,023 people, a university, hospitals and Las Canteras beach in the middle of the built-up area, with a concert hall on the promenade. It and Telde score 5 out of 5 for winter liveability; in the south Mogán scores 5 and Maspalomas 4. For wintering those are different things: the south is warm and busy in winter, while Las Palmas lives in January as it does in June.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telde | 18.5 | 19.9 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 1 796appraised |
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 18.5 | 19.9 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 321appraised |
| Mogán | 19 | 20 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 2 900asking |
| Maspalomas | 19 | 20 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3 100asking |
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: 25 rainy days a year, 68% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.