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Lanzarote in January

Around 18.5 °C by day, sea 19.3 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 of 4.

Sea by month, °C
19.3
J
18.6
F
18.5
M
19.2
A
20
M
21.2
J
21.8
J
22.5
A
23.1
S
23
O
21.8
N
20.6
D

January on Lanzarote is 18.5 °C by day and 19.3 °C in the sea. Twenty degrees in January is what people fly here from northern Europe for: on mainland Spain's coast the water is 13–15 °C that month.

January is the peak of the winter season: load 3 out of 4, and a full 4 in the resort towns of Teguise, Tías and Yaiza. Arrecife stays an ordinary town — the capital, with its schools, its port and its market — and January is when the difference shows best. The square metre is €1,942 in Arrecife against €2,600 in Yaiza: for six hundred euros of difference you get either neighbours all year or neighbours from November to March.

Towns nearby in January

TownAirSeaBusyWinter€/m²
Arrecife18.519.33/55/51 942
Teguise18.519.44/55/52 200
Tías18.519.34/55/52 400
Yaiza18.519.54/55/52 600

The winter column is a 1-to-5 estimate: are places open, does transport run, is anyone about between November and March. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.

Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 20 rainy days a year, 62% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.