Climate averages 1991–2020
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: daytime highs average 18.1°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 34 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Telde (12 km away). In January its highs average 18.1°C, about as warm as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ranks joint 2nd of 93 for the warmest January highs and joint 2nd of 93 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 93 cities is 12.5°C; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is 5.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 22 mm to 25 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
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 18.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 22 | 4.6 | 10.611 h |
| February | 18.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 25 | 4.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 19.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.6°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 12 | 3.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 20.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 6.5 | 1.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 22.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 23.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| August | 24.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.3°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 9.8 | 1.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 24 | 4.9 | 11.512 h |
| November | 21.2°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 22 | 5.3 | 10.811 h |
| December | 19.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 30 | 5.6 | 10.410 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
- Telde in JanuarySpain · 12 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 14.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Santa Lucía in JanuarySpain · 24 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 12.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife in JanuarySpain · 92 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 16.7°C · 24 mm rain
- Arona in JanuarySpain · 124 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 12.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Laayoune in JanuaryWestern Sahara · 244 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 11.3°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Tan-Tan in JanuaryMorocco · 424 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 10.9°C · 9.4 mm rain
- Dakhla in JanuaryWestern Sahara · 494 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.6°C · 3.6 mm rain
- Funchal in JanuaryPortugal · 528 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 13.9°C · 51 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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is explained once on the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Telde and Santa Lucía lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.