Fuerteventura in December
Around 19.5 °C by day, sea 20.7 °C. Warm enough to swim. As busy as the peak.
December on Fuerteventura is 19.5 °C by day and 20.7 °C in the sea. Every Canary island is about the same, while on the mainland coast the water gets no higher than 18.3 °C in December — the difference between a swim and a paddle.
The island has two faces, and December shows them. Puerto del Rosario is the capital and the most populated municipality: 46,182 residents, a hospital 3 minutes away, the airport 10, winter liveability 5 out of 5 and load 4 out of 5. The resort towns — Antigua, Pájara, Corralejo — run at 5 out of 5 in December. Antigua and Pájara score 5 for winter, Corralejo 3, and the hospital is 21 to 39 minutes away. The island gets 10 to 18 rainy days a year: the driest island in our base, with even Arrecife on Lanzarote at 20.
Towns nearby in December
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto del Rosario | 19.5 | 20.7 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 1 958appraised |
| Antigua | 19.5 | 20.8 | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2 100asking |
| Pájara | 19.5 | 20.8 | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2 300asking |
| Corralejo | 19.5 | 20.7 | 5/5 | 3/5 | 2 700asking |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 18 rainy days a year, 60% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.