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San Sebastián in January
avoid · not the best time to go · the coolest month of the year
The year in San Sebastián
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- JanJSan Sebastián in January: avoid
- FebFSan Sebastián in February: ok
- MarMSan Sebastián in March: ok
- AprASan Sebastián in April: sweet spot
- MayMSan Sebastián in May: ok
- JunJSan Sebastián in June: sweet spot, busy
- JulJSan Sebastián in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugASan Sebastián in August: sweet spot, busy
- SepSSan Sebastián in September: ok, busy
- OctOSan Sebastián in October: sweet spot
- NovNSan Sebastián in November: avoid
- DecDSan Sebastián in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 12°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 6°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 9°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 14 · 205 mm |
| Humidity | 79% |
| Sunshine | 5.3 h/day |
| Daylight | 9.4 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 centre, by La Concha, 16 km from the airport (EAS): 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.
San Sebastián in pictures
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kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 6°C.
- Rain gear you will actually use: about 14 rainy days and 205 mm.
- Humidity averages 79%; 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 San Sebastián: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
January elsewhere
In January from
The other months at San Sebastián
- January
- February ok
- March ok
- April sweet spot
- May ok
- June sweet spot
- July sweet spot
- August sweet spot
- September ok
- October sweet spot
- November avoid
- December ok
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