The most dramatic movement was a slump in visitors from the Nordic nations. Their numbers nearly halved, dropping 44% from 57,790 in the first six months of 2025 to just 32,131 this year. It is a striking retreat from a region that has traditionally escaped its long winters in the Canaries, and comfortably the biggest shift in the whole table. Two other established markets softened as well, with France down 6.4% to 112,309 and Spanish arrivals off 2.4% at 136,964.
Those losses were made good by growth elsewhere. Italy was the fastest-growing market of all, climbing 23% to 55,891, while Germany staged a 17% recovery to nearly 170,000, encouraging for a source of visitors that has waned since its peak years. Belgium grew at the same 17% pace, reaching 31,404. Added together, these advances roughly matched the Nordic and French falls, which is why the island's overall total barely moved.
Underpinning it all, Lanzarote's most important markets stayed reliably constant. British arrivals through the first half came to 884,720 and Irish arrivals to 193,157, with the Netherlands steady at 43,922. Britain and Ireland between them still supply more than half of everyone who visits, so their steadiness is the anchor that keeps the total flat while the smaller markets rise and fall around them.
Taken as a whole, the figures show an island whose tourism is proving durable even as its makeup shifts. One market can drop by nearly half without denting the total, because another steps up to replace it, and the dependable British and Irish trade holds the whole thing steady underneath.
