
Telde
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.
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · 20 km — a real city with a beach in the middle of it
- Maspalomas · 45 km — the dunes and the winter resort south
- Vega de San Mateo · 25 km — the mountain village and its Sunday market
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
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 °CTourist load
On the map
What tenants actually pay
sourcedThis 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 bedroom | 600 €/mo | |
| 2 bedrooms | 780 €/mo | |
| 3 bedrooms | ≈ 1 010 €/mo | model: two-bed × 1.3, no measurement yet |
| Median of active leases, 2024 | 520 €/mo | SERPAVI · 78 m² |
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
estimateInternational 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.
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- Colombia704
- Cuba555
- Italy496
- Venezuela472
- Morocco254
- Germany214
- Argentina185
- China183
- 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
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
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria2 233 €/m²
- Maspalomas3 100 €/m²
- Mogán2 900 €/m²
- San Sebastián de La Gomera1 500 €/m²
- Los Llanos de Aridane1 450 €/m²
- Isla Cristina1 425 €/m²
- Tarragona1 833 €/m²
- Vera1 750 €/m²
- Los Alcázares1 750 €/m²