Holiday Villas in Lanzarote What Weather can you Expect?
Youve chosen your beautiful luxury villa with its private pool for your holiday and are eagerly awaiting your (hopefully) break in the sun. But will the weather live up to expectations?
Lanzarote lies off the west coast of Africa, about 400 miles south from the south coast of Spain, so youd expect it to be very hot and sultry, especially in July and August where its very much that way in the south of Spain and the Mediterranean. Wrong! Lanzarote is in the Atlantic ocean which, unlike the Mediterranean, is a cool ocean and the sea temperature around Lanzarote varies from 17C to 24C. The prevailing wind is a north to north easterly, so has a sea track before arriving in Lanzarote. This is due to the presence of the Azores High, an area of high pressure which sits for most of the year to the west of the Canaries feeding the north to northeast wind across the island. This track over the cool Atlantic means that the heat is very much tempered, resulting in average temperatures even in the summer months of around 29C. With low humidity and the effect of the cooling wind, this makes it very pleasant in the daytime...