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The mildest Januaries in Europe

Europe · January · midday

The European cities with the warmest middle of the day in the coldest month. All 1,033 towns and cities that draw visitors in Europe were compared in January; these 15 lead.

21°C
1. Arrecife, Spain
Temperature21°C
Feels like17°C
Cloud42%
Wind5.8 m/s

The list

  1. 1
    ArrecifeSpain

    Arrecife is in the Canary Islands. Midday in January averages 21°C, and feels like 17°C, with partly cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 77, Good. See mid January on the map.

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    21°C
  2. 2
    Las PalmasSpain

    Las Palmas is in the Canary Islands. A typical midday in January here is 20°C under partly cloudy skies, feeling like 16°C. For simply being outside it rates 73, Good. See mid January on the map.

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    20°C
  3. 3
    Los Llanos de AridaneSpain

    Los Llanos de Aridane is in the Canary Islands. Midday in January averages 20°C, and feels like 17°C, with partly cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 75, Good. See mid January on the map.

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    20°C
  4. 4
    Ponta DelgadaPortugal

    A typical midday in January here is 17°C under often cloudy skies, feeling like 14°C. For simply being outside it rates 46, Fair. See mid January on the map.

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    17°C
  5. 5
    HortaPortugal

    Midday in January averages 17°C, and feels like 14°C, with often cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 43, Fair. See mid January on the map.

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    17°C
  6. 6
    LimassolCyprus

    A typical midday in January here is 16°C under partly cloudy skies, feeling like 13°C. For simply being outside it rates 38, Fair. See mid January on the map.

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    16°C
  7. 7
    FaroPortugal

    Midday in January averages 16°C, and feels like 12°C, with partly cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 28, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    16°C
  8. 8
    VallettaMalta

    A typical midday in January here is 15°C under partly cloudy skies, feeling like 11°C. For simply being outside it rates 22, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    15°C
  9. 9
    GibraltarGibraltar

    Midday in January averages 15°C, and feels like 12°C, with partly cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 23, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    15°C
  10. 10
    CataniaItaly

    A typical midday in January here is 14°C under partly cloudy skies, feeling like 11°C. For simply being outside it rates 22, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    14°C
  11. 11
    RódosGreece

    A typical midday in January here is 14°C under partly cloudy skies, feeling like 11°C. For simply being outside it rates 32, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    14°C
  12. 12
    SiteíaGreece

    Midday in January averages 14°C, and feels like 9°C, with partly cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 19, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    14°C
  13. 13
    TrapaniItaly

    A typical midday in January here is 14°C under partly cloudy skies, feeling like 10°C. For simply being outside it rates 15, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    14°C
  14. 14
    CannesFrance

    Midday in January averages 13°C, and feels like 10°C, with often cloudy skies. For simply being outside it rates 9, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    13°C
  15. 15
    PerpignanFrance

    A typical midday in January here is 11°C under often cloudy skies, feeling like 4°C. For simply being outside it rates 3, Poor. See mid January on the map.

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    11°C

Places with a guide of their own

Ranked the same way, but only among the places that have a guide of their own:

Arona
Spain
20°C
See mid January
Paphos
Cyprus
16°C
See mid January
Albufeira
Portugal
15°C
See mid January
Valencia
Spain
15°C
See mid January

How this list is worked out

The data

Every figure comes from a decade of weather-station observations, blended into one typical year and read at midday, local solar time. Scores here are averaged in January; a city missing a reading for any part of that stretch is left out rather than scored on part of it.

The reading

Temperature is the air temperature at midday, which runs a little below the afternoon high.

The spread

To keep one warm corner from filling the list, entries are at least 150 km apart, no more than three sit within 1,000 km of each other, and no more than three come from one country unless the list would otherwise run short.

Only places that draw visitors

Towns and cities with plenty of hotels, guest houses and holiday lets nearby for their size, or a great many of them in all, counted from Overture Maps Places, an open dataset. That keeps out places the weather favours but nobody travels to. Where two places share one resort or city, the one a visitor would name is kept.

The dotted links open the map at that place and time of year, on the same layer. The map remembers the time of day you last chose there; set it to midday to see these exact numbers.