Climate averages 1991–2020
Gandia weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Gandia: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Benidorm (48 km away). In January its highs average 15.2°C, 1.0°C warmer than Gandia, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Gandia ranks joint 31st of 93 for the warmest January highs and joint 61st of 93 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 93 cities is 12.5°C; Gandia is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 15.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 54 mm to 42 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
Gandia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.3°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 54 | 5.9 | 9.810 h |
| February | 15.0°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 42 | 5.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 17.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 53 | 6.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 53 | 6.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.8°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 36 | 5.1 | 14.314 h |
| June | 27.2°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 19 | 3.5 | 14.915 h |
| July | 30.1°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 9.4 | 2.1 | 14.615 h |
| August | 30.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 26 | 4.4 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.3°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 82 | 8.0 | 12.512 h |
| October | 22.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 76 | 7.4 | 11.211 h |
| November | 17.7°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 64 | 6.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 14.9°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 61 | 6.4 | 9.59 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
- Benidorm in JanuarySpain · 48 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.6°C · 37 mm rain
- Torrent in JanuarySpain · 58 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Valencia, Spain in JanuarySpain · 59 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Alicante in JanuarySpain · 74 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 27 mm rain
- Elche in JanuarySpain · 90 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 6.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Castelló de la Plana in JanuarySpain · 114 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 6.6°C · 36 mm rain
- Torrevieja in JanuarySpain · 118 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.6°C · 27 mm rain
- Orihuela in JanuarySpain · 118 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 5.2°C · 24 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 Gandia) is explained once on the Gandia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.