In the first ten months of the year, a total of 2.47 million foreign tourists spent their holidays in Lanzarote, a 2.8% increase compared to last year, according to the Lanzarote Data Center, based on ISTAC air transport statistics.
Traditionally, it has been considered that the island has two periods of tourist decline. The first, during the month after Easter week, and the second, precisely the month preceding Christmas. Currently, many residents wonder if the low season still exists, given that the island always seems to be at full capacity.
Ekonomus has analyzed the first of these, comparing data from the month that included Easter week and the following month in 2025, 2015, 2005, and 1996. The analysis shows that percentages continue to fall in the month after Easter week.
The key to the perception that the low season no longer exists is not so much the decline, which continues, but that the figures for the "low season" month are much higher than in the past. In 2025, 14% more international travelers arrived in the month after Easter than in the month that contained Easter in 2015, 31.5% more than in the month that contained it in 2005, and double the number who arrived in the month with Easter in 1996.
In 2025, Easter Week was in April, the month in which 248,437 international tourists arrived in Lanzarote. The following month, in May, 222,781 foreign travelers arrived, which is effectively a clear decrease equivalent to 10.3%.
Ten years ago, in 2015, Easter Week was also in April (195,055 foreign tourists) and the drop in May compared to the previous month was 9.6%. Then 176,230 arrived.
In 2005, Easter Week was in March (169,373 international tourists) and in April, a 25.9% decrease in international tourists was recorded, as 125,503 foreign travelers arrived that month.
In 1996, the first year with records of international tourists in the Lanzarote Data Center, and a year when Easter was in April, 111,713 were registered that monthforeign tourists, while the following month there were 97,373, which represents a drop of 12.8%