Weather in Lanzarote
Lanzarote is the nearest Canary Island to the African coast, and has a continual spring and summer - perfect for winter sunshine and all year round holidays. The reasons for this warm climate is the Canaries position (nearer to Africa in fact than Spain), and Lanzarote's climate is particularly drier and hotter because this is one of the lowest lying islands. Lanzarote is without the high mountains of both Gran Canaria and Tenerife, so there is less variation within the island itself, and it's drier.
Another bonus of Lanzarote's weather are the winds - perfect for windsurfing, kitesurfing and other watersports, the moist trade winds whisk down from the north making the northern coast of Lanzarote slightly wetter and cloudier than the south [lucky that Playa Blanca is in the south], but not dramatically so. You can expect about 2500 hours of sunshine every year, with average temperatures between 18 to 24 degrees centigrade (64-75F) in the summer months (although it can and does get much higher) and 16 to 20 degrees centigrade in winter.
Lanzarote is the nearest Canary Island to the African coast, and has a continual spring and summer - perfect for winter sunshine and all year round holidays. The reasons for this warm climate is the Canaries position (nearer to Africa in fact than Spain), and Lanzarote's climate is particularly drier and hotter because this is one of the lowest lying islands. Lanzarote is without the high mountains of both Gran Canaria and Tenerife, so there is less variation within the island itself, and it's drier.
Another bonus of Lanzarote's weather are the winds - perfect for windsurfing, kitesurfing and other watersports, the moist trade winds whisk down from the north making the northern coast of Lanzarote slightly wetter and cloudier than the south [lucky that Playa Blanca is in the south], but not dramatically so. You can expect about 2500 hours of sunshine every year, with average temperatures between 18 to 24 degrees centigrade (64-75F) in the summer months (although it can and does get much higher) and 16 to 20 degrees centigrade in winter.
Location Lanzarote, Spain |
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Mar 22 26°  |
Mar 23 26° |
