Puerto de la Cruz news, gathered daily: what is happening in Tenerife’s traditional northern resort and across the island – from weather fronts hitting the north coast to festivals, transport changes and tourism rules. The north lives by different rhythms than the south, and this page keeps track of both.
Below: the latest news from Puerto de la Cruz and the rest of Tenerife, newest first.
Aemet extends heat warnings across five Canary Islands
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has updated and extended yellow and orange heat warnings affecting five islands in the Canary archipelago. Gran Canaria is…
Canary banana prices hit year low in August
Canary Islands banana producers received their lowest prices of the year in week 35, with rates dropping to 0.325 euros per kilo. The figure…
Gran Canaria heat alert as 40C forecast
The Canary Islands government has raised the alert level for Gran Canaria as temperatures are set to reach 40C. The rest of the archipelago…
Monday: hotter and calima over the Islands
Monday brings rising temperatures and calima across the Canary Islands, with the mercury potentially hitting 39°C in Gran Canaria. The Atlantic stays rough in…
Hope for Tenerife’s seabed meadows
A pioneering seed transplant project led by marine conservation organisation Innoceana is offering hope for Tenerife’s depleted sebadales seagrass meadows. We explore the painstaking…
Güímar prepares for El Socorro pilgrimage
Güímar is preparing for one of its biggest and most deeply rooted events, the Bajada de Nuestra Señora de El Socorro, on Monday 7…
Useful Puerto de la Cruz links
Everything else we keep updated for Puerto de la Cruz and Tenerife:
- Puerto de la Cruz weather – the live forecast for your exact resort, updated daily
- Tenerife island guide – when to go, beaches, transport and things to do
- Playa jardin – our on-the-ground beach guide for this stretch of coast
- All Tenerife news – the full island-wide news feed
- Canary Islands news – stories from across all eight islands
Puerto de la Cruz is the north’s capital of tourism – Playa Jardin’s black sand, the Lago Martianez pools, botanical gardens and a real Canarian town behind the seafront. For Puerto de la Cruz news without hunting through social media, this page is the place.