What you can see on the Jandía webcam
The camera looks south-east from an apartment balcony above the resort. In the foreground are rooftops and gardens; beyond them, a broad band of golden sand runs off into the distance, with the slim white lighthouse of Morro Jable standing out on the shore and the open Atlantic behind. In the morning the sun shines straight into the lens over the sea. It is a time-lapse that keeps the last 24 hours, handy for seeing whether the morning cloud has burned off.
Jandía beach from a balcony
From a balcony high above the resort, this camera looks south-east along Playa del Matorral, the long beach of Jandía. Rooftops and gardens fill the foreground; beyond them the wide band of sand runs off into the distance, with the slim white lighthouse of Morro Jable on the shore and the open Atlantic behind.
In the morning the sun rises over the sea ahead, so the first images of the day are full of glare; by afternoon the light comes from behind and the colours settle. Play back its last 24 hours and you can see at a glance whether the morning cloud has burned off.
A peninsula that is mostly natural park
Most of Jandía has been protected as a natural park since 1987. Its spine of mountains reaches 807 metres at Pico de la Zarza, the highest point on Fuerteventura, and it is joined to the rest of the island by a narrow isthmus at La Pared. Behind the beach, between the dunes and the hotels, lies a salt marsh, the Saladar de Jandía, flooded by the highest tides, where herons and waders feed among low salt-tolerant scrub.
When to watch Jandía
Fuerteventura keeps the same time as the UK and Ireland. The beach faces south-east, sheltered by the mountains from the north-east trade wind, which is why the sea here is often flatter than on the rest of the island. The light is softest in the afternoon, once the sun has moved round behind the camera, and the sand looks its most golden late in the day.
Around Jandía
Morro Jable and its harbour are at the western end of the beach. On the windward side of the mountains, the wild beach of Cofete is reached by a dirt track, and north-east along the coast are the lagoon beaches of Sotavento, famous with windsurfers and kitesurfers.
Visiting Jandía
Fuerteventura airport is about 40 miles (64 km) away as the crow flies. The beach is long and open, so swim near the lifeguard posts and the flags, and keep to the paths that cross the protected salt marsh.
