The climate of the Canary Islands is probably the most powerfull element to attract millions of tourists and residents every year. A sub-tropical oceanic climate which is almost the whole year round constantly because of the passat wind (calisio) and the gulf stream but with a great differency between the islands and even between the North and the South of one single island. From the driest islands Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, with only 150 - 200mm rain a year, the old volcano the Teide with most of the months snow on the top to the green humid island La Palma with green forests and the sand dunes on Gran Canaria which looks like the Sahara. The warm and dry climate of Gran Canaria, mainly at the South side of the island, is comfortable even in the winter and mostly between 22 and 29 degrees Celsius. This makes the Canaries very attractive for sun vacations in the winter and especially for thousends of residents who are spending the whole winter on one of the islands. They call Gran Canaria a small continent, because of the different climates the island has and the contrast in nature between the South, the inlands and the North of the island. Forrests and lakes in the middle, green and humid in the North and dry and rocky areas in the south. Gran Canaria is situated approx. 1.250 km South of the main land of Spain and only approx. 200 km away from Africa. Only a few days a year it rains in the South of the island and sometimes a sirocco can occure, a wind from the Sahara which covers the island with sand.
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