Sometimes the interesting story sits underneath the headline. The Centro de Datos has released the May 2026 tourism figures for Lanzarote, and while the total visitor count came in just 2,807 down on May 2025, the hotel sector delivered its strong...
If you were watching the Live Lanzarote Webcam on Saturday night, you got treated to a piece of unscheduled entertainment that nobody at César Manrique Airport had planned. A tyre came off a Ryanair plane on the apron and set off on a solo tour o...
Lanzarote settles into a properly summery holding pattern in the week ahead, with the official AEMET forecast showing temperatures locked between 28°C and 30°C across all seven days and continuous UV index readings of 10 on the extreme end of th...
Tías Town Council has formally put the long-planned rehabilitation of Calle Noruega out to tender, with a budget of €1,760,151.72 for the complete transformation of one of Puerto del Carmen's busiest arterial roads. The 12-month project will co...
Tonight, Tuesday 23 June 2026, Lanzarote lights its bonfires. The Noche de San Juan is the night the island welcomes summer with fire, food, music and a midnight dip in the Atlantic, and tonight the celebrations run from family bonfires on the res...
Lanzarote has more residents than at any point in its history. The island's population reached 170,155 in July 2026, crossing the 170,000 threshold for the first time, on figures from Spain's National Institute of Statistics. In the space of a year it added 2,786 people.
Read MoreRecognising a beach flag is about to get easier for the millions of people who are colour blind.
Read MoreLanzarote welcomed 1.7 million tourists in the first half of 2026, holding almost exactly level with the same period last year, down by only about 5,000. Behind that steady headline, though, the nationalities filling the island's hotels have changed a good deal, with sharp gains from southern and central Europe balancing out a heavy fall from Scandinavia.
Read MoreLanzarote's winemakers are looking at their best crop in years. The island's protected denominación de origen expects the 2026 harvest to come in at around 2.5 million kilos of grapes, a huge jump on last year, when the crop fell short of 700,000 kilos.
Read MoreLast month ranks among the hottest Julys on Lanzarote in 65 years, the island having closed it with temperatures approaching 37 degrees, according to AEMET's monthly climate summary. Rain was almost entirely absent.
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Puerto Del Carmen is one of the main tourist resorts in Lanzarote, with a bustling promenade and a lively nightlife.
Playa Blanca is a place where you can have a little lavish holiday with a yacht ride or a ferry ride to Fuerteventura Island.
Costa Teguise is a popular coastal town with lots of British restaurants and pubs.
Puerto Calero is one the most luxurious ports in the Canary Islands with great restaurants and also some very popular boutiques.
