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Corsica in January

ok · worth considering · the coolest month of the year

The year in Corsica

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  1. Corsica in January: ok
  2. Corsica in February: ok
  3. Corsica in March: good
  4. Corsica in April: sweet spot
  5. Corsica in May: sweet spot
  6. Corsica in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Corsica in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Corsica in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Corsica in September: sweet spot
  10. Corsica in October: good
  11. Corsica in November: ok
  12. Corsica in December: ok
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
January at Corsica is 13°C by day and 6°C at night, with 12 rainy days and about 7 hours of sun a day. 13C max, 12 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high13°C
Nightly low6°C
Feels like, afternoon12°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more12 · 104 mm
Humidity84%
Sunshine7.0 h/day
Daylight9.5 h/day
Crowds80 / 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 Ajaccio, 5 km from the airport (AJA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

January: quieter than usual. Busiest from June to August; quietest in February, November and December.

Public holidays in January

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Corsica in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 6°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 12 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 84%; 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 E plugs at 230 / 400 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for France: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Corsica: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

January elsewhere

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