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Algarve in January
good · a good time to go · the coolest month of the year
The year in Algarve
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- JanJAlgarve in January: good
- FebFAlgarve in February: sweet spot
- MarMAlgarve in March: good
- AprAAlgarve in April: sweet spot
- MayMAlgarve in May: sweet spot
- JunJAlgarve in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJAlgarve in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugAAlgarve in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSAlgarve in September: sweet spot, busy
- OctOAlgarve in October: sweet spot
- NovNAlgarve in November: good
- DecDAlgarve in December: good
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 16°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 9°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 14°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 6 · 77 mm |
| Humidity | 75% |
| Sunshine | 8.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 9.9 h/day |
| Hiking | 25 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C good |
| Beach and sea | 0 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea not measured |
| Crowds | 73 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Albufeira, 26 km from the airport (FAO): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in January
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Algarve in pictures
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Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Markus Säynevirta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Markus Säynevirta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 9°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 6 or so rainy days.
- Sun protection: about 8 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 75%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Portugal: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Algarve: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
January elsewhere
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The other months at Algarve
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