Welcome to Lanzarote
Surfing in Lanzarote
Lanzarote's surf lives on its northern shore, and almost all of it on one beach. Playa de Famara runs about three kilometres under the Risco cliff, breaks left and right over sand, and works at every stage of the tide, which is why every school on the island is based there.
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- 7camps
The catch is in the numbers. December is its best month, and the wind takes nineteen days out of thirty. That is the Canaries in one figure: the trade winds that keep the islands consistent all winter are the same ones that flatten the afternoon. Surf early here, or check and wait.
Arrieta, twenty minutes east, is the reef alternative for when Famara is too small or too crowded, and it works far less often.
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Where is Lanzarote?
Getting there
When to go
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | |
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| Lanzarote | January : Very good | February : Good | March : Off season | April : Off season | May : Off season | June : Off season | July : Off season | August : Off season | September : Off season | October : Good | November : Good | December : Very good |
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Other surf zones nearby
Gran Canaria
A city beach with a reef across its middle, the schools at one end and a heavy right at the other.
Tenerife
The lee side of the biggest island, where the trade wind that ruins Lanzarote's afternoons blows offshore.
Fuerteventura
A wind island with one beach that turns its back to the wind: El Cotillo to learn on, the reefs of the north track for later.
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