Winter sun guides
Canary Island Guides
7 islands, one honest guide to each: where to stay, what to book before you land, and where to eat when the sun goes down.
Pick your island
Every island keeps its own pace. Start with the one that sounds like your kind of holiday.
Tenerife
Fly into Tenerife South and the plane banks low over scorched, terraced hillsides before the resort strips appear: swimming pools cut into black volcanic rock, English breakfast…
Explore Tenerife
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria is round, which sounds like a trivial fact until you drive it: forty minutes from the capital's grey Atlantic swell you are in pine forest at a thousand metres, and…
Explore Gran Canaria
Lanzarote
Lanzarote looks the way it does because the island nearly became a different place, and one man talked the authorities out of it.
Explore Lanzarote
Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura is the oldest island in the Canaries and it shows: the interior is bare volcanic rock the colour of rust and ash, flattened by wind that never really stops.
Explore Fuerteventura
La Palma
Five years after Tajogaite tore through its western flank, La Palma is still rebuilding a village that newspapers abroad have moved on from.
Explore La Palma
La Gomera
La Gomera is the island the ferry schedule decides for you.
Explore La Gomera
El Hierro
El Hierro has more volcanoes than people have patience to count: over 500 open craters on a patch of land 268 square kilometres wide, the youngest and smallest of the inhabited…
Explore El HierroPlan the whole trip in one read
Each island guide is written for people who want the sun without the guesswork.
Where to stay
Every area matched to how you holiday, lively or quiet, with live hotel prices.
Things to do
Boat trips, tours and days out worth booking before you land.
Where to eat
Harbour grills, terraces and the tables locals actually queue for.
When to go
Season by season: the sun, the sea and the crowds, so you pick the right week.