Marbella weather in January
The coolest month of the year on the Costa del Sol, and still a 16.8°C daytime high on average.
January is the low point of Marbella's year by temperature, but the low point is mild: AEMET's 1981–2010 normal puts the daytime high at 16.8°C and the overnight low at 7.4°C, a range most of northern Europe would call a good autumn day. Frost is close to a non-event, an average of just 0.1 days for the whole month. Rain is at its most likely of the year alongside November and December, spread over roughly 6 days, but 180 hours of sunshine still works out to a clear morning or afternoon most days.
Questions
What's the weather like in Marbella in January?
Expect a daytime high around 16.8°C and an overnight low near 7.4°C, averaging 12.1°C across the month, AEMET's 1981–2010 normal for the Málaga Airport station, the nearest full weather station to Marbella.
Does it rain in Marbella in January?
January averages 5.8 days with at least 1mm of rain and 69mm in total, a fairly ordinary winter month for rain, similar to February.
How much sunshine does Marbella get in January?
AEMET's normal for January is 180 hours of sunshine across the month, one of the lower sunshine totals of the year, before it climbs from March.
Every figure on this page is AEMET's own published 1981–2010 climate normal for the Málaga Airport station, the nearest station to Marbella with a full climate record; Marbella itself has none. Nothing here is forecast, estimated, or extrapolated.
AEMET (Spain's State Meteorological Agency), Málaga Airport station, 1981-2010 normals. Read 20 August 2026. View the data at AEMET · AEMET's data licence