Lanzarote in January
Around 18.5 °C by day, sea 19.3 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 4.
January on Lanzarote is 18.5 °C by day and 19.3 °C in the sea. Nearly twenty degrees in January is what people fly here from northern Europe for: on mainland Spain's coast the water is between 12 °C and 17.1 °C that month.
January is the height of the winter season, though the peak came in December: load 3 out of 5, and more in the resort towns — 4 in Teguise, 4 in Tías, 4 in 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 €2,011 in Arrecife on the ministry's appraisal and €2,600 in Yaiza on asking prices. The real choice is between neighbours all year and neighbours from November to March.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrecife | 18.5 | 19.3 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 011appraised |
| Teguise | 18.5 | 19.4 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 2 200asking |
| Tías | 18.5 | 19.3 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 2 400asking |
| Yaiza | 18.5 | 19.5 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 2 600asking |
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: 20 rainy days a year, 62% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.