Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in January

Prime time. January is about as good as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gets. Highs average 18.9 °C, lows 16.8 °C, and rain falls on 4 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. January scores 90 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose. Worth keeping in perspective: January is the weakest month of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain falls on only 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average January reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 2.1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 23.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 30 mm — roughly 167% of the month's rain in one day.

January is moderately variable: 3 mm in the driest year against 54 mm in the wettest, around an average of 18 mm. Roughly two Januarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 18.7 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How January sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 20.1 °C in December, 18.9 here, 18.7 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in January

January sits at the dark end of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's year — 10.5 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, gaining 0.4 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 19.6 °C in January — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 23.9 °C in September and bottoms out at 18.8 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

January in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is the weaker option in January — 2.4 °C cooler, 3 days more rain. Agadir is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.7 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: January works, with June the better month by 10 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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