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The warmest places in Europe in January: ranked by average high temperature

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tops the list at 19 °C in January. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in January: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (19 °C) , Almería (16 °C) , Murcia (16 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 7.6 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 19 °C 19 °C 15 °C 27 mm 5 303 h 20 °C
2 Almería Spain 16 °C 16 °C 7.7 °C 25 mm 4 273 h 15 °C
3 Murcia Spain 16 °C 16 °C 5.2 °C 28 mm 5 261 h –
4 La Laguna Spain 16 °C 16 °C 13 °C 31 mm 6 301 h 20 °C
5 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 16 °C 16 °C 6.4 °C 58 mm 7 254 h 16 °C
6 Sevilla Spain 15 °C 15 °C 6.1 °C 49 mm 6 238 h –
7 Limassol Cyprus 15 °C 15 °C 9.5 °C 60 mm 9 280 h 18 °C
8 Elche Spain 15 °C 15 °C 6.5 °C 26 mm 4 263 h 15 °C
9 Alicante Spain 15 °C 15 °C 7.9 °C 34 mm 5 264 h 15 °C
10 Cartagena Spain 15 °C 15 °C 9.5 °C 28 mm 4 267 h 15 °C
11 Gibraltar Gibraltar 15 °C 15 °C 10 °C 88 mm 9 255 h 16 °C
12 Málaga Spain 15 °C 15 °C 9.4 °C 58 mm 7 252 h 15 °C
13 Valencia Spain 15 °C 15 °C 6.7 °C 33 mm 4 253 h 14 °C
14 Nicosia Cyprus 15 °C 15 °C 7.2 °C 54 mm 8 275 h 17 °C
15 Marbella Spain 15 °C 15 °C 9.0 °C 83 mm 9 250 h 16 °C
16 Valletta Malta 15 °C 15 °C 12 °C 54 mm 9 268 h 16 °C
17 Córdoba Spain 14 °C 14 °C 4.7 °C 53 mm 7 232 h –
18 Catania Italy 14 °C 14 °C 7.4 °C 75 mm 8 244 h 15 °C
19 Castelló de la Plana Spain 14 °C 14 °C 6.2 °C 37 mm 5 251 h 14 °C
20 Palma Spain 14 °C 14 °C 9.3 °C 36 mm 6 257 h 15 °C
21 Palermo Italy 14 °C 14 °C 8.8 °C 69 mm 10 253 h 15 °C
22 Lisbon Portugal 14 °C 14 °C 9.1 °C 69 mm 9 238 h 15 °C
23 Messina Italy 13 °C 13 °C 8.8 °C 112 mm 14 247 h 15 °C
24 Badajoz Spain 13 °C 13 °C 4.3 °C 46 mm 7 217 h –
25 Porto Portugal 13 °C 13 °C 6.4 °C 154 mm 12 210 h 14 °C
26 Badalona Spain 13 °C 13 °C 4.5 °C 41 mm 6 241 h 14 °C
27 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain 13 °C 13 °C 5.0 °C 40 mm 6 239 h 14 °C
28 Reggio Calabria Italy 12 °C 12 °C 7.1 °C 126 mm 15 248 h 15 °C
29 A Coruña Spain 12 °C 12 °C 7.3 °C 142 mm 14 186 h 14 °C
30 Vigo Spain 12 °C 12 °C 6.2 °C 220 mm 14 199 h 14 °C
31 Gijón Spain 12 °C 12 °C 5.9 °C 118 mm 14 205 h 13 °C
32 Taranto Italy 12 °C 12 °C 6.3 °C 58 mm 8 240 h 14 °C
33 Santander Spain 12 °C 12 °C 5.8 °C 116 mm 15 200 h 13 °C
34 Bari Italy 12 °C 12 °C 7.2 °C 59 mm 9 228 h 14 °C
35 Granada Spain 12 °C 12 °C 2.0 °C 51 mm 8 255 h –
36 Naples Italy 12 °C 12 °C 5.7 °C 107 mm 11 223 h 15 °C
37 Bilbao Spain 12 °C 12 °C 6.9 °C 112 mm 15 188 h 13 °C
38 Braga Portugal 12 °C 12 °C 3.8 °C 194 mm 13 204 h –
39 Athens Greece 12 °C 12 °C 5.2 °C 55 mm 7 225 h 15 °C
40 Sabadell Spain 12 °C 12 °C 3.2 °C 40 mm 6 239 h 14 °C
41 Pátra Greece 12 °C 12 °C 5.2 °C 120 mm 12 231 h 15 °C
42 Nice France 12 °C 12 °C 4.9 °C 66 mm 7 226 h 14 °C
43 Rome Italy 12 °C 12 °C 3.5 °C 63 mm 9 215 h –
44 Toulon France 11 °C 11 °C 6.1 °C 61 mm 7 223 h 14 °C
45 Durrës Albania 11 °C 11 °C 6.5 °C 116 mm 11 229 h 15 °C
46 Zaragoza Spain 11 °C 11 °C 3.0 °C 28 mm 6 229 h –
47 Monaco Monaco 11 °C 11 °C 5.1 °C 66 mm 7 227 h 14 °C
48 Terrassa Spain 11 °C 11 °C 2.3 °C 39 mm 6 239 h –
49 Donostia / San Sebastián Spain 11 °C 11 °C 6.3 °C 144 mm 15 185 h 13 °C
50 Oviedo Spain 11 °C 11 °C 2.9 °C 105 mm 14 196 h 13 °C

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

December: top 5

  1. Yakutsk -34 °C
  2. Komsomolsk-on-Amur -17 °C
  3. Blagoveshchensk -16 °C
  4. Khabarovsk -15 °C
  5. Chita -15 °C

Full ranking for December

February: top 5

  1. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 19 °C
  2. Murcia 17 °C
  3. Sevilla 17 °C
  4. Almería 17 °C
  5. Jerez de la Frontera 17 °C

Full ranking for February

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in January, highest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by population.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.