Climate averages 1991–2020
Alcalá de Henares weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Alcalá de Henares: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 1.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 42 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 38 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Torrejón de Ardoz (10 km away). In January its highs average 9.7°C, about as warm as Alcalá de Henares, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Alcalá de Henares ranks joint 71st of 93 for the warmest January highs and joint 47th of 93 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 93 cities is 12.5°C; Alcalá de Henares is 2.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 11.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 42 mm to 35 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Alcalá de Henares climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.7°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 42 | 7.7 | 9.610 h |
| February | 11.7°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 35 | 6.3 | 10.611 h |
| March | 15.5°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 44 | 7.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.9°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 56 | 8.7 | 13.313 h |
| May | 22.4°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 50 | 8.5 | 14.414 h |
| June | 28.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 23 | 4.0 | 15.015 h |
| July | 32.3°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 7.6 | 1.7 | 14.815 h |
| August | 32.0°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 12 | 2.7 | 13.814 h |
| September | 26.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 28 | 4.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 20.0°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 64 | 8.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 13.6°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 58 | 8.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 10.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 47 | 7.7 | 9.39 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Torrejón de Ardoz in JanuarySpain · 10 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Coslada in JanuarySpain · 18 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Guadalajara, Spain in JanuarySpain · 23 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 0.7°C · 43 mm rain
- San Sebastián de los Reyes in JanuarySpain · 24 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.7°C · 38 mm rain
- Alcobendas in JanuarySpain · 25 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Chamartín in JanuarySpain · 27 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low 0.5°C · 38 mm rain
- Madrid in JanuarySpain · 30 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.9°C · 38 mm rain
- Getafe in JanuarySpain · 37 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.0°C · 37 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Alcalá de Henares) is explained once on the Alcalá de Henares year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.