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Warmest sea temperatures in Europe in January

La Laguna tops the list at 20 °C in January. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Sea temp Avg high Rainfall
1 La Laguna Spain 20 °C 16 °C 31 mm
2 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 20 °C 19 °C 27 mm
3 Limassol Cyprus 18 °C 15 °C 60 mm
4 Nicosia Cyprus 17 °C 15 °C 54 mm
5 Valletta Malta 16 °C 15 °C 54 mm
6 Gibraltar Gibraltar 16 °C 15 °C 88 mm
7 Jerez de la Frontera Spain 16 °C 16 °C 58 mm
8 Marbella Spain 16 °C 15 °C 83 mm
9 Pátra Greece 15 °C 12 °C 120 mm
10 Málaga Spain 15 °C 15 °C 58 mm
11 Almería Spain 15 °C 16 °C 25 mm
12 Athens Greece 15 °C 12 °C 55 mm
13 Catania Italy 15 °C 14 °C 75 mm
14 Lisbon Portugal 15 °C 14 °C 69 mm
15 Messina Italy 15 °C 13 °C 112 mm
16 Reggio Calabria Italy 15 °C 12 °C 126 mm
17 Cartagena Spain 15 °C 15 °C 28 mm
18 Palermo Italy 15 °C 14 °C 69 mm
19 Naples Italy 15 °C 12 °C 107 mm
20 Palma Spain 15 °C 14 °C 36 mm
21 Elche Spain 15 °C 15 °C 26 mm
22 Alicante Spain 15 °C 15 °C 34 mm
23 Durrës Albania 15 °C 11 °C 116 mm
24 Valencia Spain 14 °C 15 °C 33 mm
25 Castelló de la Plana Spain 14 °C 14 °C 37 mm
26 Taranto Italy 14 °C 12 °C 58 mm
27 Livorno Italy 14 °C 11 °C 64 mm
28 Genoa Italy 14 °C 9.7 °C 98 mm
29 Nice France 14 °C 12 °C 66 mm
30 Monaco Monaco 14 °C 11 °C 66 mm
31 Toulon France 14 °C 11 °C 61 mm
32 Bari Italy 14 °C 12 °C 59 mm
33 Porto Portugal 14 °C 13 °C 154 mm
34 Vigo Spain 14 °C 12 °C 220 mm
35 Sabadell Spain 14 °C 12 °C 40 mm
36 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain 14 °C 13 °C 40 mm
37 Barcelona Spain 14 °C 13 °C 41 mm
38 Thessaloníki Greece 14 °C 9.3 °C 50 mm
39 A Coruña Spain 14 °C 12 °C 142 mm
40 Marseille France 13 °C 11 °C 52 mm
41 Oviedo Spain 13 °C 11 °C 105 mm
42 Gijón Spain 13 °C 12 °C 118 mm
43 Santander Spain 13 °C 12 °C 116 mm
44 Bilbao Spain 13 °C 12 °C 112 mm
45 Donostia / San Sebastián Spain 13 °C 11 °C 144 mm
46 Montpellier France 12 °C 11 °C 79 mm
47 San Marino San Marino 11 °C 5.9 °C 62 mm
48 Trieste Italy 11 °C 7.3 °C 90 mm
49 Saint Peter Port Guernsey 10 °C 9.7 °C 99 mm
50 Plymouth United Kingdom 10 °C 8.8 °C 88 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

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.