Lanzarote live webcams

Lanzarote's resorts on camera

Lanzarote is the most easterly of the Canary Islands and one of the driest, a landscape of black lava, white houses and wide skies. Its holiday towns lie along the sheltered south and east coasts, and most of the webcams follow them; one looks instead at the surf of the north-west. In Puerto del Carmen, the island's main resort, a camera on Playa Grande turns through ten views of the beach and bay. In Costa Teguise, a beach bar streams its terrace on the promenade at Las Cucharas. At the southern tip, two cameras watch the yachts and the harbour mouth of Marina Rubicón in Playa Blanca, looking towards Fuerteventura. In Arrecife, the capital, a camera watches the dock where cruise ships tie up. On the other side of the island, a surf school's roving camera sweeps the long beach of Famara, from the village of Caleta de Famara to the great cliffs of the Risco, with La Graciosa offshore.

These are cameras you can actually use. They show whether the beach is busy, whether the flags are flying straight out in the trade wind and whether there is a ship in port, and nearly all of them stream live video.

When to watch the Lanzarote webcams

Lanzarote runs on the same clock as the UK and Ireland all year, an hour behind mainland Spain. Most cameras face east or south-east, so they are at their brightest in the morning, when the sun rises over the sea; Famara faces the open Atlantic to the north-west, where the biggest waves arrive in autumn and winter. The north-east trade wind usually blows hardest in summer, and the cruise season brings most ships to Arrecife in the cooler months, from autumn to spring.