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Do some of you know how the temperatures change in the various altitudes on Tenerife? I'd like to do some hillwalking in the forests, not just in the towns and on the beaches.
Allow around a 5º degree difference between coast and 1km altitude ... getting cooler as you rise.
That's the general rule, though at times when there is a Saharan wind, it can be very much hotter (10º or so) at altitude. In the winter season, too, there tends to be a greater difference. Recently we've had 20º or so, and they've been talking about 28º on the coast.
What you have to remember is that temperatures are given as in the shade with nil wind.
Half a degree Celsius per one hundred metres is the norm giving Janet’s Five Degrees difference at One Kilometre but all these figures go out of the window when you are in intense sunlight or have a hot or cold wind.
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We live at 400m above sea level and it's normally about 3 degrees cooler than the coast in the winter months, but can be hotter than the coast in the summer.
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There is a 'sweetheart zone' in the summer months - both lower and higher it is hotter. Around 300-500 metres above sea level I would say.
On a hot calima day (30C+), there is always the restaurant at the top of Teide which would be around 20-22C. Only an hour's drive away for most folk.
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What about North Tenerife in Jan. Had a great and sunny week last jan in San Eugenio and we're returning again, but this time might do some traveling.
Thanks in advance for any help and thanks to Colleen. You're all such a cheerful bunch, must be the weather
Always colder in the winter in the north, and cloudier and rainier too, though as ever in Tenerife, there is always the danger that the sun will break through!
There's a useful list of websites for Tenerife weather in THIS thread.
Temperatures in different altitudes 
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