Spain · Las Palmas, Gran Canaria · #9 of Spain's ten by fame
A city beach with its own reef wall 200 metres out.
How we rated it: up one for a sourced find, the natural reef that runs 200 metres offshore. Photo: dronepicr · CC BY 2.0
Las Canteras is Las Palmas' city beach, 2,651 metres by our measurement, with a pedestrian promenade, the Paseo de Las Canteras, along its length and a Blue Flag. About 200 metres offshore, parallel to the shore, runs a natural reef the locals call La Barra, which calms the water behind it. The southern arc is not protected by the reef and takes the waves, and the surfers go there.
Warmest sea in August. Fewest wet days in June. 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.
3 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.
Blue Flag and the Q for Tourism Quality flag.
A natural reef running parallel to the shore about 200 metres out, which shelters most of the beach.
To the southern arc, which the reef does not protect, so the waves are bigger.
