Lanzarote'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...
Last 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.
Monday was the hottest day of the current heatwave on Lanzarote, and Puerto del Carmen felt it most. A reading of 39.9 degrees at the resort's weather station was the highest anywhe...
Gusts of 75 kilometres per hour were recorded at Lanzarote Airport on Sunday evening, and at around 8.10pm a Canaryfly service inbound from Gran Canaria broke off its approach, climbed away and came round for a second attempt. It was safely on the...
Lanzarote stays hot and dry for the next seven days, with the AEMET forecast holding daytime highs between 29°C and 31°C every day and the UV index at 10 through to Saturday. Rain stays off the board all week bar a token 10% on Monday morning. T...
The busy sea crossing between Playa Blanca and Corralejo has a new boat working it. Líneas Romero put its latest ferry, the Juan Jorge R., into service on 31 July 2026, replacing an older vessel on the short hop between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The company describes the new boat as part of a steady modernisation of its fleet, aimed at…
Read MoreDetermined not to miss the first family holiday abroad, a British couple and their two young children abandoned their taxi and walked down the M6 with their suitcases when a crash shut the motorway on the way to their Birmingham flight to Lanzarote.
Read MoreLanzarote 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.
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Lanzarote has always something to offer for the whole family.
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.
