Canary Islands

Head to the Canary Islands for a quick flight to your next water sports holiday. With a choice of windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing, SUP and scuba diving you can maximise your time on and in the water. Sportif recommend Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Costa Teguise and Famara in Lanzarote as the best locations to enjoy your sport. Each Canary Island offers slightly different, Atlantic sea conditions influenced by their location off the west coast of North Africa.These historic volcanic islands basking in year round sunshine and water time. Each island has a distinct characte, on the same latitude as the Sahara and Red Sea but are further south than Florida with incredible beaches.

The temperatures are reliably good all year, peaking in July to September at 88F or 30C. The sea conditions vary from one island to another and, between venues on each island, different conditions are available according to your preference or ability. It is possible to go from radical wave sailing in one area to flat water ‘blasting’ in another on the same day. The islands are blessed with a constant supply of wind, thereby making them the ideal choice for all year round windsurfing and kitesurfing. Enjoy the endless stretches of pure golden sand lapped by azure water making the perfect backdrop to your sailing dream, year round.

Fuerteventura - Corralejo

Fuerteventura offers excellent windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing and stand up paddle boarding (SUP) conditions for your 2021 Canary Islands watersports holiday. Corralejo offers kitesurfing and windsurfing holidays with a mix of flat water and offshore swell and chop conditions. Still with the original fishing port, Corralejo has grown to...

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Fuerteventura - Sotavento

Fuerteventura offers excellent windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing and stand up paddle boarding (SUP) conditions for your 2021 Canary Islands watersports holiday.  Sotavento in Fuerteventura offers windsurfing holidays and kitesurfing holidays in one of the most famous venues in the world, because of its unique wind conditions and...

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Gran Canaria - Bahia Feliz

Gran Canaria offers excellent windsurfing, surfing and stand up paddle boarding (SUP) conditions for your 2021 watersports holiday. Gran Canaria offers windsurfing holidays with a combination of conditions. Flat water conditions and lighter winds at Bahia Feliz in the summer perfect for beginners and intermediates plus a choice of high...

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Lanzarote - Costa Teguise

Lanzarote offers windsurfing, kitesurfing, SUP, surfing, yoga, biking, hiking. golf and multi sport holiday options with ideal locations for beginners water flat water and waves year round. Lanzarote is situated 120km off the coast of Africa and is the most easterly of the Canary Islands. It's golden sandy beaches, year round sun and easily...

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Tenerife - El Medano

Tenerife offers windsurfing holidays in the Canary Islands with clean, consistent, planing winds for intermediate and above windsurfers. The main windsurf venue is El Medano, 15 minutes from the airport. This small resort is situated on sandy a series of sandy bays  with more sheltered conditions inshore and clean winds further out to...

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