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Cuenca in January
ok · worth considering · the coolest month of the year
The year in Cuenca
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- JanJCuenca in January: ok
- FebFCuenca in February: good
- MarMCuenca in March: good
- AprACuenca in April: good
- MayMCuenca in May: good
- JunJCuenca in June: sweet spot
- JulJCuenca in July: good
- AugACuenca in August: good, busy
- SepSCuenca in September: good
- OctOCuenca in October: good, busy
- NovNCuenca in November: ok, busy
- DecDCuenca in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 9°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | -1°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 5°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 7 · 62 mm |
| Humidity | 76% |
| Sunshine | 6.6 h/day |
| Daylight | 9.7 h/day |
| Crowds | 80 / 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 the city, below the old town: 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; they count toward the crowd score above.
Cuenca in pictures
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Edmundo Sáez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Tomás Fano, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -1°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 7 or so rainy days.
- Humidity averages 76%; 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 a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Cuenca: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
January elsewhere
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