Tenerife features the lowest temperature difference between summer and winter for anywhere in the world, and average daily temperatures vary only slightly throughout the year making Tenerife an ideal all year round travel destination. Tenerife's weather is typically mild sub-tropical, with hot summer. During the high summer (August and September) it is hot and sunny. Daytime temperatures aver. 23c, with a balmy 16c During the evenings. Tenerife offers pleasant holiday summer weather
During the summer in Tenerife's northern parts, the overnight minimum temperatures is around 21°C and this occurs just before the sunrises. Once the sun has risen the temperature quickly heats up to a comfortable 28-29°C. Weak dust storms affect the island of Tenerife and this brings with it a hot dry wind (known locally as 'calima') from the Sahara desert.
Tenerife is much sunnier at the beginning of the summer, peaking at ten hours per day in July before gently reducing to six hours per day in November as the clouds gather before the winter rains. The sea temperature gets up to around 23ºC. Prolonged periods of drought have been known to result in forest fires that spread rapidly through the dry vegetation.
Fuelling the spread of these fires is the strong wind. In 2007 a fire started by a disgruntled park ranger destroyed 35,000 hectares of forest and 900 homes across Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Since Tenerife is an island, both the minimum and maximum temperatures at sea-level don't jump to extremes from one day to the next. Tenerife North is much cooler ...
Summer Weather in Tenerife
The weather on Tenerife indeed has dictated to a large extent the development of both the southern and south west resorts - these areas of Tenerife, like Gran Canaria, get the best of the sunshine with the least cloud and rain. When holidaymakers from the UK first started to visit Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz was the main resort location situated in the north near the only airport on the island Tenerife Norte (Los Rodeos) until Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) was opened in 1978. They'd often grumble on postcards home of the occasional clouds in the north of Tenerife delaying flights. If you're on an activity holiday or walking holiday in Tenerife today, and based in the north, the occasional clouds, which have formed over nearby mountains a ...
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