Maspalomas news, gathered daily: what is happening around Gran Canaria’s southern resort belt – dune reserve rules, weather and calima alerts, events from the lighthouse to Playa del Ingles, and the island-wide Gran Canaria stories that shape every visit.
Below: the latest news from Maspalomas and the rest of Gran Canaria, newest first.
Fiesta del Charco: A journey through La Aldea’s past
A guided walk through La Aldea de San Nicolás has revisited Víctor Grau Bassas’s famous 1887 chronicle of the Fiesta del Charco. The route…
Saturday: cooler air and clearing Saharan dust
Cooler air arrives across the Canary Islands this Saturday, with Saharan dust clearing by midday. Northern coasts face rough Atlantic seas of up to…
Canary Islands weather: rain and storms on the way
The Canary Islands are set for a change in the weather, with rain forecast from Sunday across scattered points of the archipelago. The European…
Gran Canaria hotel maid arrested over stolen gold necklace
A maid at a hotel in southern Gran Canaria has been arrested after a tourist reported her €450 gold necklace missing from her room….
Gran Canaria approves €509k works to shore up GC-200 slope
Gran Canaria’s Cabildo has put €509,514 of works out to tender to reinforce a slope beneath the GC-200 near El Hoyo, after erosion caused…
ULPGC launches 14 research projects at Las Canteras
The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will develop 14 lines of research into coastal dynamics, climate change and pollution at Las Canteras…
Useful Maspalomas links
Everything else we keep updated for Maspalomas and Gran Canaria:
- Maspalomas weather – the live forecast for your exact resort, updated daily
- Gran Canaria island guide – when to go, beaches, transport and things to do
- Playa del ingles beach – our on-the-ground beach guide for this stretch of coast
- All Gran Canaria news – the full island-wide news feed
- Canary Islands news – stories from across all eight islands
Maspalomas means the dunes, the 19th-century lighthouse and the sunniest corner of Gran Canaria – over 320 days of sunshine a year on this coast. For Maspalomas news that skips the noise and keeps the facts, bookmark this page and check back often.