Practical guides and checked advice for choosing your Canary Island: the relief that builds two climates on a single island, the real links between the eight islands, and what is changing on Mount Teide.

Car hire in the Canary Islands, 6 October 2026: prices, deposit, insurance, inter-island ferries, Teide, Masca, Timanfaya and the traps before you pay.

Things to do in Gran Canaria, prices checked 6 Oct 2026: free dunes, Roque Nublo by reservation, dolphin trips from €37, day tours from €48. What to book ahead.

Eleven kilometres apart, two opposite holidays: Lanzarote is a designed island, Fuerteventura an empty one. The figures that actually decide it.

Three airports, three islands, the same annual mean: 21.1 °C. What the calendar changes is not the temperature but the rain, cloud and wind.

A five-day itinerary built by zones, and the one thing to book before you fly: since June 2026, Timanfaya tickets are sold online only, in timed slots.

The north runs 4 to 5 °C cooler in winter; the south has the sun and twice the passengers. What you are choosing is not a beach — it is a climate.

Masca only Wednesday to Saturday, 300 places a day on the Teide crater trail, Punta de Teno without a car: three dates are set before you fly.

Above 1,000 m an island makes its own clouds: Tenerife has two climates, Lanzarote one. And six hours of sea separate the two island groups.