Canary Islands Holiday Information

Gran Canaria, Tenerife and the other Canary Islands offer a huge amount of places, beaches and tourist activities. Check out our Canary Island articles as they provide useful information for planning your Canary Island Holiday.

Also take a look at our map section containing over 40 useful satellite maps of different areas of the Canaries. Our list of webcams that are situated in the Canary Islands takes you to 35 interesting webcams located all over the Canarian archipelago.

We also present current weather information for each Canary Island, climate info that is updated every hour by each airport. After all, your holiday weather is important.

Some recent articles

• Canary Islands - sub-tropical vacation possibilities

  Seven islands make up the archipelago known as the Canary Islands. These are La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote. Because they are an autonomous region of Spain, many tourists do not realise that they lay in the Atlantic ocean, 750 miles south of...

• Download the Lanzarote Guidebook

  The Canary Island of Lanzarote is a popular year round destination, attracting over one million British and Irish tourists every year. And now anyone with an interest in the volcanic Island of Fire can download a comprehensive 104 page Guidebook to Lanzarote – entirely free of charge. ...

• How to find cheap flights to Spain

  In this day when people tend to book their own flights online, it is important to know what the travel agents have for known for years about getting their customers the best deals and cheapest flights to Spain or anywhere else for that matter. When booking your own flights or just researching...

• Register your child in a Spanish school

  THE SPANISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM How to register your child in the systemTo register your child in the local state school you will have to live in the catchment area which means they will be on the local town hall register (padron). You will also need to supply the school with most of the documents...

• Santa Claus arrived on the beach by parachute

  Every year I vow to make christmas easier, simpler - less stressful. Have I ever? One year I tried forgetting christmas here in the UK and spent it in the Canary Islands. It was quite extraordinary really. Christmas day was spent around the pool. The staff brought round Christmas cake at various...

• The five most popular attractions of Lanzarote

  Lanzarote´s year round clement climate is the primary draw for most visitors to the island. As here, even in the depths of a northern European winter, the temperature rarely falls below 21C. Add in four-hour flight times, over ninety great beaches and an abundance of high quality hotels and...

• Fuerteventura has the best beaches

  Fuerteventura – blessed with over 150 beaches - is one of the least spoiled and the least discovered of the canary Islands. With a dramatic volcanic landscape, little rainfall and all year round warm temperatures, the desert landscape is unique and large areas of the island are protected...

• La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro

  La Palma La Palma is the north-westernmost of the Canary Island Archipelago and is known as the “Pretty Isle” due to its outstanding natural beauty. It has the most precipitation out of all the Canary Islands and is one of the world’s most mountainous Islands. Roque de los...

• Clasification of Spanish sherry

  L A G A R The lagar, in which the grapes are trodden and pressed, is a rectangular wooden trough, 12 feet square and about 2 feet deep, with a 6-foot iron screw in the centre; its floor rests upon four legs about 3 feet high: it has a lip, with a funnel attached to it, through which the sweet...

• Canary Islands - the fortunate islands

  In Christopher Columbus’s time, the Canary Islands were believed to mark the end of the world. After being conquered by the Spanish in the 15th Century, the Canaries become a popular stopping point for explorers, traders and missionaries on their way to the Americas. The islands have also...

• Diving holiday in Tenerife

  If you are planning a scuba diving holiday to Tenerife, when you venture under the waves you may find yourself pleasantly surprised. The impressive underwater rock formations rich in both plant and animal life make the island of Tenerife an ideal and increasingly popular scuba diving destination....

• Perro de Presa - a Canary Island guard dog

  The Canary Dog history includes the now extinct native dog of the Canary Islands, the Bardino Majorero, crossed with imported English Mastiffs. It is interesting to note that the Islands were not named for the little yellow singing bird known as the Canary, but rather for the fierce fighting dogs...

• Lanzarote beaches - Arrecife

  Arrecife is the smallest of the islands seven municipalities and house the islands new capital (having taken over the mantel from Teguise at the end of the 18th century). Like neighbouring San Bartholme, there are relatively few beaches in this area, although the two that follow are well a visit. ...

• Wine production in Tenerife

  Wine searcher say, "Ycoden-Daute-Isora is the most ancient but most recently Denominated of Spain’s regions. The best dry white wines in Tenerife, from the Listan Blanco grape, are made here." (I think the reds are even better.) The region of Ycoden-Daute-Isora, which was...

• Best shopping in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

  Shopping in Las Palmas is, nowadays, an activity that attracts locals as well as tourists. Las Palmas is the capital of the eastern Canary Islands, with about 400.000 inhabitants. This gives you enormous shopping possibilities. To tackle all the great shopping areas in Las Palmas, you will...

• Tenerife daytrip ideas

  Regardless of your reasons for visiting Tenerife, you will want to explore the island. As nice as basking in the sunshine is on any visit to this remarkable island, a trip here is not complete without taking a break from the beaches and making the most of the attractions and diverse landscape. By...

• Tenerife - someting for everyone

  A popular destination in the summer is the paradise of Tenerife. It is located about 300 miles west of the African mainland and about 1,300 miles from the Spanish mainland, and is probably one of the most beautiful islands in the Canary Islands. There is also Commercial Property in Tenerife, Spain....

• The flora and fauna of Tenerife

  Macaronesia is the name given to the groups of Islands which scatter across the centre of the Atlantic. One such group is the Canary Islands which boasts the greatest variety of flora. Throughout the Canaries there is a mixture of endemic and cultivated plants, tropical and sub-tropical. The...