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Mallorca in January

ok · worth considering · the coolest month of the year

The year in Mallorca

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  1. Mallorca in January: ok
  2. Mallorca in February: good
  3. Mallorca in March: sweet spot
  4. Mallorca in April: sweet spot
  5. Mallorca in May: sweet spot
  6. Mallorca in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Mallorca in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Mallorca in August: good, busy
  9. Mallorca in September: good, busy
  10. Mallorca in October: good
  11. Mallorca in November: good
  12. Mallorca in December: good
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
January at Mallorca is 15°C by day and 8°C at night, with 6 rainy days and about 8 hours of sun a day. 15C max, 6 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high15°C
Nightly low8°C
Feels like, afternoon12°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more6 · 50 mm
Humidity77%
Sunshine8.1 h/day
Daylight9.7 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 Palma, 8 km from the airport (PMI): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

January: quiet. Busiest from June to September; quietest from December to March.

Public holidays in January

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

Mallorca in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 8°C.
  • Sun protection: about 8 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 77%; 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. Everything for Spain: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

January elsewhere

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The other months at Mallorca

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