Texel, De Cocksdorp in January
Sea, with a tide. What an average January looks like here, from five years of weather history.
- Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
- Model mean, kn
- 17.0
- Model gust, kn
- 22.5
- Windy days (model, twintip 14 kn)
- 26
- Direction
- WSW
- Waves, m
- 1.1
- Water °C
- 6
- Air °C
- 6
- Sunny days
- 3
- Rain days
- 16
- Wetsuit
- 5/4 with hood and gloves
By the model, January is the windiest month here: 17.0 kn mean against 14.4 kn over the year. Best for wind: Nov to Jan.
Season
Best for wind: Nov to Jan
Wind bar: the month's model mean wind between 09:00 and 18:00 against the windiest month here (full bar). Model rows: daytime (09:00 to 18:00) means; a windy day has 2 hours or more at the sport's minimum; a surf day 2 daylight hours of waves of 0.5 m or more; sunny: daytime cloud 30 % or less; rain: 1 mm or more.
From weather models 2021 to 2025. At spots with thermal wind or sea breeze the model reads several knots low; the bars show the shape of the year, riders know the numbers.
Source: Open-Meteo historical weather and marine archive (CC BY 4.0), weather 2021 to 2025, waves and water 2021 to 2025.