This is walking season: without the summer heat, the trails and peaks are done at an easy pace, booking made. There are no lifeguards on the beaches outside the bathing season, and limpet picking is closed. Early in the month the Kings are sung; on the 15th, Santo Amaro closes the Christmas season.
🌡️ The weather in January
- Mean temperature
- 16 °C
- Mean daily high
- 18.4 °C
- Mean daily low
- 13.7 °C
- Rain in the month
- 44.9 mm
- Days with rain (≥ 1 mm)
- 7.4
- Days reaching 25 °C
- 0
- Nights staying above 20 °C
- 0
Climate normals 1991-2020, measured at Porto Santo airport (78 m): thirty-year averages, not a forecast.
🌊 The sea
- Mean water temperature
- 18.8 °C
Monthly mean of ten years of measurements, not today’s temperature.
☀️ Daylight
- Sunrise
- 08:08
- Sunset
- 18:20
- Length of day
- 10 h 12 min
Computed for the island on 15 January, in local time.
For today’s weather and the days ahead, see the live weather. Porto Santo weather today →
📅 What’s on in January
Dates are those of the latest published edition.
- 5Jan⛪ Tradition🔁 Every year
🎶 Cantar os Reis
📍 Vila Baleira · 5 January 2026 · Free
- 15Jan⛪ Tradition🔁 Every year
🧹 Santo Amaro — sweeping the cupboards
📍 Across the island · 15 January 2026 · Free
- 31Dec🎉 Festival⭐ Featured🔁 Every year
🎆 New Year — Fireworks
📍 Porto Santo Beach · 31 December 2026 – 1 January 2027 · Free