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Holiday Villas In Lanzarote What Weather Can You Expect
ou´ve chosen your island. This track over the cool
beautiful luxury villa with Atlantic means that the heat is
its private pool for your very much tempered, resulting in
holiday and are eagerly awaiting average temperatures even in the
your (hopefully) break in the summer months of around 29C. With
sun. But will the weather live up low humidity and the effect of
to expectations? the cooling wind, this makes it
very pleasant in the daytime and
Lanzarote lies off the west coast easy to sleep at night.
of Africa, about 400 miles south
from the south coast of Spain, so Watch out for that sun though! In
you´d expect it to be very hot the middle of summer it´s almost
and sultry, especially in July directly overhead and the sun
and August where it´s very much index is 10+ extreme – you don´t
that way in the south of Spain get any higher. Put on a high
and the Mediterranean. Wrong! factor sunscreen and try to avoid
Lanzarote is in the Atlantic the sun in the middle of the day.
ocean which, unlike the Even on cloudy days you can burn
Mediterranean, is a cool ocean so strong is the sun, so be very
and the sea temperature around careful. With the cooling
Lanzarote varies from 17C to 24C. breezes, you may not realize you
The prevailing wind is a north to are burning until it´s too late,
north easterly, so has a sea and then your holiday is ruined.
track before arriving in Even in winter, you can burn in
Lanzarote. This is due to the the sun, so you need protection
presence of the Azores High, an all year round.
area of high pressure which sits
for most of the year to the west Through the summer months from
of the Canaries feeding the north May through to October, you are
to northeast wind across the unlikely to see any rain. There
may be an isolated thunderstorm but this doesn´t normally last
but that´s all. Often it´ll start long. Sometimes the sun can be
cloudy in the morning with the blotted out by dust picked up
wind having picked up moisture from the desert on the high
from the Atlantic overnight, but winds. This is called a Calima.
this soon burns away to leave
plenty of blue skies for the rest Despite the island being quite
of the day. From mid to end small, there are differences in
October through to April, you may the weather. With the prevailing
see some rain. This comes mostly wind being north to northeast,
in the form of short lived the south is warmest and
showers and often comes sunniest. The wind can be quite a
overnight. Unless you are very feature in Lanzarote – a
unlucky, you will also see plenty beneficial one in summer! – and
of warm sun through the winter again the south fares best with
months with average daytime it having a bit more shelter. In
maximums of around 21C to 24C, the winter, the wind tends to die
making it the warmest winter away.
destination in Europe. Very
occasionally, the wind will turn The Canaries´ weather is the
southeast, strengthen and blow reason why they call the Islands
very hot, dry air from the Sahara “The Fortunate Islands”. For very
desert in Africa. In summertime, good reason!
temperatures can soar to over 40C
About the Author:
Bob Dickie lives in Lanzarote and runs Luxury Villas Lanzarote who offer a wide range of private luxury holiday villas across the island to suit every budget. Visit http://www.luxuryvillaslanzarote.com/
Read more articles by: Bob Dickie
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