Gran Canaria in March
Around 19 °C by day, sea 19.1 °C. Too cold to swim. As busy as the peak.
March on Gran Canaria is 19 °C by day, sea at 19.1 °C. March has the coldest water of the year, yet the warmest, in September, is only 23.5 °C: the Canarian year is almost flat. In Valencia the water runs from 14.1 °C in February to 26.9 °C in August.
March is when the winterers leave. Load in Maspalomas falls from 4 to 3, which makes it a good time to see the island without crowds. What is worth seeing in March: what runs outside the winter season and what only opens for it. The gap between Maspalomas and Las Palmas is plainer than in January — a city lives the same all year, a resort does not. The south gets 10 to 15 rainy days a year, so the weather is unlikely to get in the way.
Towns nearby in March
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telde | 19 | 19.1 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 1 796appraised |
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 19 | 19.1 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 321appraised |
| Mogán | 20 | 19.2 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 900asking |
| Maspalomas | 20 | 19.2 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 100asking |
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: 25 rainy days a year, 68% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.