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5Winter liveability / 5To the sea 5 kmTo the airport 10 min · LPAPer m² 1 797

Telde is the second most populated municipality on Gran Canaria and the fourth in the Canaries, with a hundred and four thousand people. The town lies on the east coast beside the airport. Its name comes from the aboriginal Telle: before the Spanish conquest this was one of the two kingdoms the island was divided into.

For anyone moving, Telde is interesting for its price: the cheapest square metre on the island, with the airport ten minutes away, the hospital ten, and Las Palmas twenty minutes up the motorway. This is not a resort: fewer than five per cent of residents are foreign, and the town runs on itself all year. The north of Gran Canaria works differently from the south anyway — greener, wetter, and without the winter influx that fills Maspalomas from November to February.

Worth a trip nearby
  • Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · 20 kma real city with a beach in the middle of it
  • Maspalomas · 45 kmthe dunes and the winter resort south
  • Vega de San Mateo · 25 kmthe mountain village and its Sunday market
Resalesource
1 797€/m²
+7% price growth yoy
appraised value, Ministerio de Vivienda
New build
2 200€/m²
Rent, 2 bed
780€/mo
Populationsource
104 933
Foreign residents 4.7%
Winter humidity
68%
Sunshine hours per year
2 800h
Rent, 1 bed
600€/mo
International schools
1
Internet
500Mbps

Telde sits in Gran Canaria, 5 km from the water. The square metre is 38% below the Gran Canaria median: €1 797 against €2 900. The sea is 5 km away: not a seaside town but a town near the sea, and the beach means a drive. The airport is 10 minutes away, closer than for most places in the database.

Hospital, terrain, getting around

Nearest hospitalsource
21min by car
Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · 21.1 km · public
Terrainsource
rolling
Centre at 141 m, 56 m of elevation change
25–80 m of change — the climb from the sea to the centre is noticeable on foot
Car-freeour rating
3/5
possible without a car, with caveats
No rail station within 3 km · bus stops within 1.5 km: 58

Where from: the Ministry of Health hospital catalogue, road time · elevations from the Copernicus terrain model · OpenStreetMap · ratings for car-free and hospital minutes are ours.

Sea temperature

8 months above 20 °C
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Tourist load

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On the map

What tenants actually pay

sourced
Median
520€/mo
75th percentile
625€/mo
Flat size
78

This is the median rent on active leases — tax records for 2024, a sample of 3 938 leases. It includes long-standing contracts at unchanged rents, so it sits below what is asked today: our estimate of asking rent is 780 € for a two-bedroom.

The point of the 75th percentile: it is closer to what is being signed now than the median. The gap between them shows how much a new tenant overpays relative to long-standing ones.

Where from: SERPAVI, Ministerio de Vivienda · municipality: Telde

Rent by number of bedrooms

asking price, estimate
1 bedroom600/mo
2 bedrooms780/mo
3 bedrooms1 010/mo
Median of active leases, 2024520/mo

Asking prices are what long lets are advertised at today; the registry is what tenants pay on signed leases, including old ones. The gap between them is your negotiating argument.

Schools nearby

estimate

International schools counted in the base: 1. Names and curricula for this place are not verified yet — the school registry covers the thirty most-requested places so far.

2

Renting without a Spanish contract

How realistic a long lease is without a nómina — on foreign income, savings or prepayment.

  • 4.7% foreign residents — the market is built for locals with a contract

This is our model, not a measurement: demanding a nómina is an individual landlord's practice and nobody publishes it. The rating is derived from the share of foreign residents, the presence of a community with services, price growth, seasonality of the stock and the size of the town.

Who lives here

INE 2025
Foreign residents on the padrón
4.7%
4,897 of 104,933
  • Colombia704
  • Cuba555
  • Italy496
  • Venezuela472
  • Morocco254
  • Germany214
  • Argentina185
  • China183
Communities and services in their language
  • No notable foreign-language community with services recorded.

Where from: INE, Censo Anual de Población · the register-based census counts padrón registrations by citizenship on 1 January, not everyone living here: seasonal owners and the unregistered are outside it, and naturalised residents count as Spanish.

Winter direct flights from LPA

January 2026/2710 min to the airport
  • United Kingdom18
  • other countries16
  • Germany10
  • Italy9
  • Sweden7
  • Norway7
  • France5
  • Netherlands4
  • Poland4
  • Portugal4
  • Ireland3
  • Belgium3
  • Switzerland3
  • Denmark2
  • Austria1
  • Czechia1

Destinations served at least weekly in January; checked 2026-09-17.

Paperwork and practicalities

Appointment for the TIE· Las Palmasfrom reports
2
Two to five weeks of waiting, and getting in is hard. In June 2026 the CSIF civil-service union warned that the issuing points, Siete Palmas, Telde, Maspalomas, Arrecife and Puerto del Rosario, would not withstand the regularisation wave, while the Podemos party spoke of a black market in appointments at up to 1,000 euros. Lanzarote and Fuerteventura have their own stations.
1 — no slots for weeks, 5 — freely available. Checked 2026-09-17
Coworking within 3 km
not on the map
Dog beaches within 8 km
not on the map
Vets within 5 km
3

From OpenStreetMap — an open map filled in by volunteers. Something missing there may still exist: read this as «we found this many», not «there are no more».

Where to look next

Nearby on the same coast
Cheaper with the same sea
Similar price, other coasts
Compare with Tarragona
Verified: 2026-09-14 · where the data comes from