Spainability rankings · Updated July 2026
Best Canary Islands towns for a mild climate year-round
Not 'warm' or 'mild' — both at once: the Canaries towns with the narrowest gap between winter and summer averages.
Ranked among the 278 towns with an indexed Spainability page — 268 full published profiles plus 10 data profiles for the revealed-preference hubs foreigners actually move to — not all 8,132 municipalities.
The ranking
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Oliva, La data profile the Canary Islands
Year-round-mild Spainability Score 100 top 1% of 8,131 townsOnly 14 rainy days a year; 19°C average winters; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo).
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Only 18 rainy days a year; 18.8°C average winters; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo).
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19.7°C average winters; only 14 rainy days a year; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo).
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San Bartolomé de Tirajana the Canary Islands
Year-round-mild Spainability Score 99 top 1% of 8,131 townsOnly 10 rainy days a year; 19.4°C average winters; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo).
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19.3°C average winters; only 34 rainy days a year; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo).
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19.7°C average winters; only 14 rainy days a year; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo).
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19.3°C average winters; only 34 rainy days a year; a settled international community.
Honest tradeoff: ranks low on low desertification risk.
How we ranked this
We answered our own 17-question quiz as a settler who wants a genuinely narrow climate range year-round — the quiz answers ask for BOTH a warm, sunny winter AND a summer that doesn't spike into scorching heat, with the coast nearby. Then we ran every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities through the same scoring engine the quiz uses, and kept the top-ranked towns with a full published Spainability profile in this area.
- Data INE census (population, origins), AEMET climate normals, regional PISA scores, and the Health Ministry's SISLE waiting lists — each town compared against the Spanish average.
- Reproducible Feed the same persona into our engine and you get this exact order. No hand-picking, no affiliate deals.
- Data completeness A town is excluded from this ranking if it's missing data for any of its key factors (few rainy days a year, mild winters and affordable cost of living (registered rent €/m²·mo)) — we don't let a data-sparse town float to the top on the factors it happens to have. No eligible towns were excluded here on that rule.
- Spainability Score Each town's Year-round-mild Spainability Score is its percentile among the 8,131 municipalities we could score for this profile — a score of 88 means it fits better than 88% of them. It's the same per-persona percentile shown on that town's own page. How Spainability works →
- What we don't score We score winter warmth and summer mildness together (both need to be true) using AEMET normals for these islands specifically — we don't score humidity, trade-wind exposure by coast side, or volcanic-terrain microclimates that can vary within a few kilometres.
Compare the top 7
| # | Town | Winter avg | Summer high | Annual sunshine | Registered rent | Coast |
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| 1 | Oliva, La | 19°C | 27.7°C | 8 h/day | €8.59/m²·mo | 7 km |
| 2 | Arrecife | 18.8°C | 29°C | 8.2 h/day | €7.1/m²·mo | 2 km |
| 3 | Arona | 19.7°C | 28.3°C | 7.9 h/day | €9.15/m²·mo | 2 km |
| 4 | San Bartolomé de Tirajana | 19.4°C | 26.2°C | no data | €8.93/m²·mo | 4 km |
| 5 | Puerto de la Cruz | 19.3°C | 26.2°C | no data | €10.21/m²·mo | 13 km |
| 6 | Adeje | 19.7°C | 28.3°C | 7.9 h/day | €10/m²·mo | 8 km |
| 7 | Icod de los Vinos | 19.3°C | 26.2°C | no data | €5.33/m²·mo | 12 km |
Values from the Spainability dataset (INE / AEMET / regional sources). "no data" = we don't have that number for this town and never guess it.
Questions
Do the Canary Islands really have no seasons?
Close to it, by mainland-Spain standards — the winter/summer average gap is far narrower than almost anywhere else in Spain, which is what this list is built to prove: look at the winter and summer columns side by side for each town.
Which Canary Islands towns have the mildest year-round climate?
Our engine favours towns that combine a warm winter with a summer that doesn't spike — typically the north-facing and trade-wind-sheltered coasts rather than the hottest south-facing tourist strips. See the ranked list above for specific towns and numbers.
This is a generic someone who wants one climate all year, not a hot season and a mild one
Get your ranking, not this one →
This list scores one representative persona. Answer a dozen honest questions and we score all 8,132 municipalities against your priorities — climate, cost, healthcare, community, getting home — with the tradeoffs shown as plainly as the wins.
Take the 3-minute quiz →Last updated: July 2026 · Next update: on INE's next census release (expected 2027).
Re-generated from the Spainability dataset on each data release — the ranking is reproducible, not editorial.