Spain · Fuerteventura · #8 of Spain's ten by fame
An hour of gravel road to one of the Canaries' great unspoilt beaches.
How we rated it: nothing lifts it and nothing sinks it. Photo: dronepicr · CC BY 2.0
Cofete is on Fuerteventura's wild side, at the end of about an hour's drive on a narrow, winding, very bumpy gravel road to Cofete village; without a car there is an infrequent bus on the same road. One guide calls it one of the most famous unspoilt beaches in the Canary Islands. The polygon we measured is 6,266 metres long and 157 wide on average, among the biggest in our survey of Spain.
Warmest sea in August and September. Fewest wet days in February, June, July, September and October. Pick your fight.
One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.
2 beaches within 6 km, as the gull flies.
Straight-line distances from the mapped beach shapes (OpenStreetMap). Roads are longer, and in Bali they are much longer.
No crowd data.
By a narrow, winding, very bumpy gravel road to Cofete village, about an hour's drive, or the infrequent bus on the same road.
The beach polygon we measured on OpenStreetMap is 6,266 metres long and 157 metres wide on average.
