Give the clear part of the day to a walk.
A January plan can be small and satisfying: a pastry, an indoor visit and a meal worth slowing down for. Keep the outdoor part flexible rather than booking every hour around a hoped-for sunny afternoon.
For Lisbon in January, use the monthly climate as planning context, then check the daily forecast closer to your trip. Choose a date in the calendar for programmes with published dates, and keep longer exhibitions and festival periods separate. Pick one indoor option and one neighbourhood stop so the day can stay flexible.
SEASONAL AVERAGE · NOT A DAILY FORECAST
IPMA · Instituto Geofísico station 535 · 1991–2020 monthly normals. These are not daily extremes, a forecast for this year or a count of rain days already observed.
The forecast covers only the next seven days when available. Later travel dates keep their seasonal averages until a forecast is published.
DAYLIGHT · CALCULATED ESTIMATE
For 14 Jan 2027 · Lisbon city-centre reference
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Lisbon clock & calculation details →YOUR MONTH, ONE DAY AT A TIME
28 programmes and 0 additional festival editions currently listed for this month. Coverage is partial; a missing listing does not mean there is nothing on.
Date numbers count programmes with explicit published dates, not daily performances inside longer periods. Terracotta outline: today. Select a date to update the lists and daylight estimate.
1 Jan 2027
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna
CAM uses the storytelling world of One Thousand and One Nights to explore its collection. Think gallery visit and stories told through artworks, not a staged performance of the tales.
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1 Jan 2027
Pavilhão Julião Sarmento
At Pavilhão Julião Sarmento, Araújo’s installations, photographs, videos and other works explore psychological and existential questions. Books of watercolours inspired by a journey to southern South America are among the works; this is a gallery visit, not a scheduled live performance.
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2 Jan 2027
MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
For an art afternoon with a little theatre in the room: Joana Vasconcelos’s large textile works meet Valentino’s couture at MAAT Gallery. Give the installation time rather than treating it as a quick fashion-photo stop. This is an exhibition, not a runway show. Check museum admission and any separate guided-visit arrangements.
Session details & tickets →These periods are not proof of a session or opening on each date. Confirm the visit or actual session with the organiser.
26 Oct 2026
Museu das Ilusões
At the Museum of Illusions in Chiado, optical installations, puzzling rooms and visual challenges put perception at the centre of the visit. It is a hands-on stop for a group that wants to explore together. Check access for your party: the organiser notes that two exhibits have steps, even though the museum offers reduced-mobility access.
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2 Jan 2027
Teatro Armando Cortez
Mowgli brings Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book to Teatro Armando Cortez, with music, movement and a story about people and nature. Mowgli and Shanti try to connect their different worlds while facing Shere Khan. Choose a family weekend performance; weekday sessions are for schools. The theatre lists Saturdays at 15:00 and Sundays at 11:00 during the announced run.
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18 Dec 2026
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
This Candlelight programme brings The Four Seasons and La Folia into a string-quartet setting. The draw is the repertoire and the smaller ensemble, so compare the listed venue and session before choosing your evening. It is a tribute programme; the featured composer is the subject of the music.
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Programme until 31 Dec 2027
Museu Banksy Lisbon, Rua Viriato 25B, Lisboa
Graffiti, films and installations introduce Banksy’s political and social ideas. The museum displays reproductions, not a collection of original street works—useful to know before choosing this stop.
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Programme until 20 Sept 2027
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna
See collection works that usually stay out of the galleries, in a space also used by museum professionals. This is a supervised, limited-capacity visit; check the published entry slots before arriving.
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Programme until 30 May 2027
Pavilhão Julião Sarmento
Works from the Julião Sarmento Collection explore how American cinema, cities and cultural myths shaped postwar art. Rita McBride’s Arena is reimagined using reused materials. This is a gallery exhibition at Pavilhão Julião Sarmento, not a screening of the film.
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Programme until 29 Mar 2027
MACAM - Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Sculptures and installations from the MACAM collection explore balance, materials and the forces that shape spaces. A three-dimensional art exhibition, not a fitness or outdoor event.
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Programme until 15 Feb 2027
MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
MAAT’s Oval Gallery brings together Cabrita Reis’s paintings, drawings and sculptures. Familiar materials become part of a much larger conversation about art and the spaces around us. Pair this exhibition with a riverside Belém walk.
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Programme until 15 Feb 2027
MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
More than 300 books, catalogues and publications tell the story of MAAT’s first decade. A good stop for anyone interested in graphic design, artists’ books or how museums preserve ideas on paper; this is an exhibition, not a book market.
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Programme until 22 Feb 2027
MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
A slower gallery stop for anyone drawn to sound as much as shape. João Pimenta Gomes brings reflective metal forms, resonance and light together in MAAT’s Studio Space. This is a sound installation to spend time with, not a scheduled live concert or a wellness class. Check the museum’s visiting days before making it your Belém plan.
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25 Oct 2026
MACAM
Sculpture and installation from MACAM’s collection examine balance, resistance and the ways materials occupy space. Organised around nature and abstraction, scale and resistance, and cities and urbanism, Weight-Counter-Weight connects physical forces with questions about architecture and collective life. The exhibition is presented in Gallery 3, with works by Portuguese and international artists.
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25 Oct 2026
MACAM
MACAM’s permanent display follows the two phases of Armando Martins’s collecting. Gallery 1 traces Portuguese art from the late nineteenth century into modernism; Gallery 2 brings Portuguese and international contemporary work into dialogue through painting, photography, video and installation. The exhibition occupies Galleries 1 and 2; a chapel visit is not included in this ticket.
Session details & tickets →Showing 12 of 13 longer programmes.
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No additional confirmed festival edition is listed here for this month. See the seasonal guide for ideas still awaiting dates.
Programme snapshot updated 2026-10-25 22:58 UTC. This is not a manual check of every session or live ticket availability.
A waterproof outer layer and shoes with grip are a sensible starting point. Check the actual forecast before a coast trip, and leave a museum or workshop as the indoor alternative.
The figures above are the 1991–2020 monthly climate normals for Lisbon's Instituto Geofísico station. An average daily high or low is not an extreme, and an average rain-day count does not tell you which days will be wet. Check the daily forecast and current warnings before an outdoor commitment.
An Oceanário visit or a nata class can give the day its anchor. A riverfront walk is the optional part, not a condition for the plan to work.
Choose a meal near the part of the city you want to explore. Our neighbourhood and food guides keep the existing place notes, branch details and saved-list links together. For a bigger route, Plan my days can combine places with announced dated sessions; the final booking stays with the venue.
Numbers on the dates count programmes with published single dates or explicit session dates, not a ticket for each listed idea. An exhibition period or booking window never turns into a session on every date between its endpoints. Select a day to see its dated programmes and the separate longer periods.
The event and festival lists come from our existing saved programme sources. They are partial coverage, not everything happening in Lisbon. Check the organiser's session, language, age, access and ticket terms before you arrange the rest of the day. A dated programme is not evidence of a seat being available.
Sunrise and sunset here are calculated for the public city-centre reference point and the displayed date, in Lisbon time. They are rounded estimates, not a forecast of visible sunshine; hills, buildings and clouds change what you actually see.
Use the date with a reservation time and check the return journey for a late evening. A sunset estimate, an ordinary Metro operating window and a specific transport connection are different pieces of information.
If the weather or a booking changes, shorten the outdoor stretch rather than replacing it with three distant stops. A café, an indoor visit or a workshop from our guide can give the day a new shape without starting again from scratch.
Save the places you want to keep to My Lisbon on this device. For a ticketed activity, keep the confirmation and exact meeting point available before you leave. The monthly programme can change, so revisit the organiser's information close to the date.
No. It uses IPMA's 1991–2020 monthly climate normals. The average low, high and number of days with at least 1 mm of rain are seasonal context, not a prediction for individual travel dates.
Do not assume so. Calendar counts use explicit published dates. Longer programme periods are shown separately; use the organiser's own session or opening information before booking.
The calendar shows the next occurrence of January within the current twelve-month planning window. The displayed year applies to the announced events; the climate figures are historical monthly averages.
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