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Atlantic archipelago, with Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Gran Canaria among the islands covered.
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About Canary Islands
These islands answer a question the Mediterranean coasts cannot. On AEMET's 1981 to 2010 normals the five Canary stations that carry a January figure each record an afternoon above twenty degrees, from 20.6 to 21.7, compared with 16.0 at the Sevilla station, 15.2 at Palma and 14.1 on Menorca. August does not reverse it: a typical afternoon at those same five runs between 27.5 and 29.1, compared with 31.3 at Palma and 35.5 at Sevilla. Warmer in the cold half of the year and milder in the hot half.
Below island level the market is published in pieces. Asking prices come by municipality and by district and never by island, so only Costa Adeje, Puerto de la Cruz and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria carry a figure, all three at July 2026. Transfer tax sits low as well: ITP, which applies to resale property and is set by autonomous community, has a general rate of 6.5 per cent in the Canary Islands as at 2026, where the general rate is 7 in Andalusia, 8 in the Balearics, 9 in the Valencian Community and 10 in Catalonia, several of which rise again above a threshold.
Between the islands the sea does the work a motorway does elsewhere. Armas Trasmediterranea and Fred. Olsen Express name routes reaching every island on this page, and Armas lists a mainland service from Cadiz, which matters to anyone shipping a car or belongings.
What to know first
- The five Canary stations with a January figure all record afternoons above twenty degrees
- August afternoons here run cooler than at Palma or at Sevilla
- The general transfer tax rate in the Canary Islands is 6.5 per cent as at 2026
- Only three of the eight entries here carry a published asking price
- Ferry operators name routes between the islands, and a mainland service from Cadiz
- A reference hospital is named on Fuerteventura, on Lanzarote and on La Gomera
Asking prices compared
Ranked on asking price per m². Municipalities and sub-municipal entries are listed apart, because a district cannot be ranked against the municipality that contains it.
| Place | Asking price / m² | Population | Price tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole municipalities | |||
| Puerto de la Cruz | 3.475 €/m² | 31.589 | Mid |
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2.915 €/m² | 384.023 | Mid |
| Districts, nuclei and urbanisations | |||
| Costa Adeje Area of Adeje | 5.309 €/m² | 20.666 | Premium |
| Islands | |||
| Fuerteventura Island, Canary Islands | Not priced | 129.080 | No data |
| Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands | Not priced | 875.589 | No data |
| La Gomera Island, Canary Islands | Not priced | 22.560 | No data |
| Lanzarote Island, Canary Islands | Not priced | 166.878 | No data |
| Tenerife Island, Canary Islands | Not priced | 966.469 | No data |
How the prices spread
Three of the eight entries here carry an asking price, and the dearest asks about one and four fifths times what the cheapest asks. Costa Adeje asks the most, then Puerto de la Cruz, then Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, all three at a July 2026 reference month.
Costa Adeje is the odd one and worth stating plainly. It is a district inside the municipality of Adeje rather than a municipality in its own right, and it is priced above the municipality it sits in. Eight barrios inside it are priced separately, and five of the eight ask more per square metre than the district figure does, so the headline understates its dearest parts. It asks about one and a half times what Puerto de la Cruz asks, and Puerto de la Cruz about one and a fifth times what Las Palmas de Gran Canaria asks.
Set beside the Balearics the range lands in two places at once. Costa Adeje sits between Palma de Mallorca and Pollenca. Puerto de la Cruz and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria both ask less per square metre than any Balearic entry priced on this site.
The five islands carry no figure at all, and the reason is structural rather than a gap. Asking prices are published by municipality and by district, with no island tier anywhere in Spain, so Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Gomera cannot be set against each other on price. The province average is not a substitute either: Las Palmas province takes in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura together, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife province takes in Tenerife and La Gomera alongside two islands this page does not cover.
Who each part suits
Buyers who are here for the winter
A January afternoon above twenty degrees at every one of these stations on the 1981 to 2010 normals, four degrees and more above what the Sevilla, Palma and Menorca stations record on the same period. These four sit on four different islands rather than along one stretch of coast, so the choice is a real one.
Buyers looking at the Balearics on price
Both ask less per square metre than any Balearic entry priced on this site, and Puerto de la Cruz asks about one and a fifth times what Las Palmas de Gran Canaria asks. Puerto de la Cruz prices all five of its districts and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria all seven of its own, so the headline figure comes apart in both.
Buyers who want a city rather than a resort
A municipality of 384,023 residents on the Censo Anual, with all seven of its districts priced and the dearest asking close to two and a half times the cheapest. On the nationality basis the census puts Colombian first among foreign residents there, then Italian, Venezuelan, Moroccan and Cuban. These are residents rather than buyers, and nothing here counts purchasers.
Buyers who want quiet and will take the boat
An island of 22,560 residents on the Censo Anual, where Fred. Olsen Express names three ports on its own destination list and Armas Trasmediterranea pairs San Sebastian de la Gomera with Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma. German is the largest foreign nationality the census counted there at January 2025, ahead of Venezuelan, Colombian, Italian and Cuban.
Buyers who want the driest air here
The Tenerife Sur Aeropuerto station in Granadilla de Abona, which is the source for Costa Adeje, counts 15.2 days a year with a millimetre or more of rain. The Fuerteventura Aeropuerto station in Puerto del Rosario counts 15.7 such days alongside 2836 hours of sunshine, and five of Fuerteventura's six municipalities carry a July 2026 price.
Cities in Canary Islands
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Tenerife
Canary Islands
Population 966.469
Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
Population 875.589
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
2.915 €/m² · Population 384.023
Lanzarote
Canary Islands
Population 166.878
Fuerteventura
Canary Islands
Population 129.080
Costa Adeje
Canary Islands
5.309 €/m² · Population 20.666
Puerto de la Cruz
Canary Islands
3.475 €/m² · Population 31.589
La Gomera
Canary Islands
Population 22.560
The case for
- January afternoons above twenty degrees
A January afternoon runs from 20.6 to 21.7 degrees at the five Canary stations that carry a January figure, on AEMET's normals for 1981 to 2010. The Sevilla station gives 16.0 on the same period, Palma 15.2 and Menorca 14.1, so the gap is four degrees and more.
- Summers milder than the mainland south
A typical August afternoon on the same normals runs between 27.5 and 29.1 degrees at five Canary stations, where Menorca gives 29.2, Ibiza 30.3, Palma 31.3 and the Sevilla station 35.5. Cooler than all three Balearic stations, and six degrees and more under Sevilla's.
- Rain arrives on a handful of days
Days with a millimetre or more of rain run from 15.2 to 29.7 a year at five Canary stations, where the Sevilla station counts 50.5, Palma 50.9 and Menorca 63.6. Three of those five also publish an annual sunshine total, at 2836, 2913 and 2986 hours.
- A general transfer tax rate of 6.5 per cent
ITP, the transfer tax on resale property, is set by autonomous community, and its general rate in the Canary Islands is 6.5 per cent as at 2026, with 5 per cent for a qualifying main home. It is 7 in Andalusia, 8 in the Balearics and 10 in Catalonia.
- A reference hospital named on three islands
The Servicio Canario de la Salud names Hospital General de Fuerteventura in Puerto del Rosario, Hospital Universitario Doctor Jose Molina Orosa in Arrecife on Lanzarote and Hospital Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe in San Sebastian de la Gomera, on its hospital list of March 2025.
The case against
- No island here carries a published price
Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Gomera have no asking price of their own, because prices are published by municipality and by district and there is no island tier. The five cannot be set against each other on price at all.
- A referral off La Gomera means a crossing
The Servicio Canario de la Salud names the Candelaria complex in Santa Cruz de Tenerife as the reference hospital for La Gomera's health area, so anything beyond the island's own listed hospital means leaving the island by sea or by air.
- Neither resort town is on the island network
Both tram lines run inside Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristobal de La Laguna, so neither Puerto de la Cruz nor Costa Adeje is on that network, and the separate Tenerife railway is a project rather than a service.
- One station cannot describe a whole island
The one station held for Gran Canaria stands in Ingenio at twenty-four metres. Tenerife's three stations range from thirty-six to six hundred and thirty-two metres, and the highest of them records fog on seventy-seven days a year against fractions of a day at the Santa Cruz station.
- No rail service was found on any island
Gran Canaria has no rail service. On the other islands nothing in the listings checked shows one either, and no source states outright that none exists, so plan around roads, boats and planes rather than a train.
Questions buyers ask
- Why is there no price for Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura or La Gomera?
- Because asking prices are published by municipality and by district, and no island tier exists anywhere in Spain. Below island level the coverage is better than that sounds: five of Fuerteventura's six municipalities carry a July 2026 figure and six of Lanzarote's seven, and grouping the July 2026 municipality rows by island ourselves gives twenty-two of Tenerife's thirty-one and thirteen of Gran Canaria's twenty-one. La Gomera has none. The province average is no substitute, because Las Palmas province covers three islands and Santa Cruz de Tenerife province covers four.
- The Canary Islands or the Balearics?
- On winter the Canaries win, and by a wide margin. The five Canary stations that carry a January figure each record an afternoon above twenty degrees on the 1981 to 2010 normals, where Palma gives 15.2, Ibiza 15.7 and Menorca 14.1, and they also count far fewer days with a millimetre or more of rain. On price, two of the three entries priced here ask less than any Balearic entry priced on this site. What the Balearics answer instead is demand: close to a third of every home sold there in late 2025 went to a foreign buyer, the highest share of any Spanish region.
- How warm is it in winter, really?
- A typical January afternoon runs from 20.6 to 21.7 degrees across the five Canary stations that carry a January figure, on AEMET's normals for 1981 to 2010. Those are averages of daily maxima across thirty years rather than one exceptional day, and each describes its own station's municipality and nothing else. Three of the eight entries here, La Gomera, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Puerto de la Cruz, have no established normals at all, and no other station is used to fill the gap.
- Does one island's weather stand for the rest?
- No, and Tenerife is the clearest case against it. Its three stations sit at thirty-six, sixty-four and six hundred and thirty-two metres. Annual rainfall at the highest of the three is close to four times the total at the driest, and the same high station records fog on seventy-seven days a year against fractions of a day at the Santa Cruz station. A single airport station describes an airport. On an island with a mountain in the middle of it, that is a smaller claim than it looks.
- What transfer tax will I pay in the Canary Islands?
- ITP is the transfer tax on resale property and is set by autonomous community, so one rate covers the whole archipelago. The general rate is 6.5 per cent as at 2026, with a reduced rate of 5 per cent for a main home up to a threshold raised to two hundred thousand euros in 2026, and 1 per cent for qualifying large families. Rates move mid-year and the reduced rates carry conditions, so treat this as a figure to confirm with a Spanish tax adviser rather than as a quote. New builds are taxed on a different basis, which this page does not cover.
- Where is the reference hospital?
- The Servicio Canario de la Salud's hospital list of March 2025 names Hospital General de Fuerteventura in Puerto del Rosario, Hospital Universitario Doctor Jose Molina Orosa in Arrecife on Lanzarote, and Hospital Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe in San Sebastian de la Gomera. For Adeje it is Hospital del Sur de Tenerife in Arona, whose published catchment names Adeje directly. Referrals beyond La Gomera's own listed hospital go to the Candelaria complex in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which means crossing to another island.
- How do you move between the islands?
- By sea and by air. Armas Trasmediterranea and Fred. Olsen Express publish routes reaching every island on this page, and Armas lists a mainland service from Cadiz. Aena's release of 13 January 2026 counted 15,826,553 passenger movements at Gran Canaria across the full year 2025 and 128,341 at La Gomera, and names an airport on every island here. Gran Canaria has no rail service, and no rail service was found on the other islands in the listings checked, though no source states outright that none exists.
Where you might be better off elsewhere
The case for these islands is a winter, and it is unusually easy to check. On one thirty-year normals period the five Canary stations that carry a January figure each record an afternoon above twenty degrees, four degrees and more above what the Sevilla and Palma stations record, and the same stations count far fewer days with a millimetre or more of rain. The part people expect less is that August runs cooler here than at Palma or Sevilla too. Warmer in the cold half of the year and milder in the hot half is the reason to look here rather than at the Mediterranean coasts.
On price the format breaks, and it is worth saying once. Prices are published by municipality and by district and there is no island tier, so five of the eight entries carry no figure at all and the islands cannot be set against each other. What is left is three asking prices on one reference month: Costa Adeje between Palma de Mallorca and Pollenca, and Puerto de la Cruz and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria below every Balearic entry priced here. Transfer tax is 6.5 per cent as at 2026, below the general rate in every mainland region this site covers on the Mediterranean.