Tenerife in January
Around 19 °C by day, sea 20.1 °C. Warm enough to swim. Quieter than the peak: 2 out of 5 against 3.
January, together with February, is the coolest time of year for air, and on Tenerife that means 19 °C by day and 20.1 °C in the water. For comparison, January in Alicante is 12 °C and 15.2 °C, and in San Sebastián 9.5 °C and 12.7 °C. Swimming in water like this is bracing but possible, and nowhere on the mainland has such water in January.
January here is alive: all three places in our base score 5 out of 5 for winter liveability — places open, transport running, people about. That follows from who comes: people who winter here rather than spend a week in August. The infrastructure is built for the whole year, and that is the real difference from mainland resorts, which shut in January.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 19 | 20.1 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 326appraised |
| Puerto de la Cruz | 17.5 | 20.2 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 3 090appraised |
| Adeje / Costa Adeje | 19 | 20.2 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 3 774appraised |
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: 32 rainy days a year, 66% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.