Lanzarote in August

August on Lanzarote is 25.5 °C by day and 22.5 °C in the sea. Load is 3 out of 4 — above May and June but below the winter peak: people come to the Canaries to winter, not to summer.

For anyone moving, August is useful as a test of heat and of wind. By Mediterranean standards there is no heat here — twenty-five and a half degrees — but the wind is constant, and it decides how a house should sit. The island is the driest in our base after Fuerteventura: twelve to twenty rainy days a year. Drinking water comes from desalination and the bill differs from the mainland's — worth asking about before signing a lease.