San Sebastián / Donostia in January
Around 9.5 °C by day, sea 12.7 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 1 out of 5 against 5.
January in San Sebastián is 9.5 °C by day and 12.7 °C in the sea. Load is 1 out of 5: the city belongs to the people who live in it.
On 20 January the city does not sleep. At midnight the Tamborrada begins: thousands of residents dressed as cooks and soldiers march through the streets with drums and keep going for a day. It is a local festival from the nineteenth century, with few visitors. For anyone moving, January is useful for other reasons: winter score 5 out of 5, hospital 9 minutes away, everything open as in June.
Towns nearby in January
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Sebastián / Donostia | 9.5 | 12.7 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 5 186appraised |
| Bilbao | 9.5 | 13.5 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 3 524appraised |
| Getxo | 9.5 | 13.5 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 4 125appraised |
| Zarautz | 9.5 | 12.9 | 1/5 | 5/5 | 6 994asking |
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: 155 rainy days a year, 78% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.