Lanzarote repeats this year as the destination with the highest profitability per visitor in the entire archipelago. In the third quarter of 2026, each tourist who visited the island spent an average of 198.7 euros per day, the highest figure in all of the Canary Islands and a historic record for a summer period, according to the latest data from the Survey on Tourist Expenditure of the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), provided by the Lanzarote Data Center.
The figure places Lanzarote 11.2 euros above the regional average, which was set at 187.5 euros daily. Furthermore, it reflects a notable rebound compared to the previous quarter (181.9 euros in the second quarter of the year, 9.2% more) and improves by 2.5 euros the record of the summer of 2025 (196.2 euros).
The island comparison for the third quarter of 2026 confirms Lanzarote's leadership, which is more than eleven euros ahead of the second island in the ranking, Tenerife, where daily spending stood at 187.2 euros (the only island that slightly declines compared to the previous year, when it registered 191.5 euros).
Behind are Fuerteventura, with 183.6 euros per tourist per day, and Gran Canaria, with 182.7 euros. Special mention should be made of La Palma, which closed the quarter at 182.4 euros, showing a spectacular year-on-year recovery after adding 27.1 euros compared to the summer of 2025 (155.3 euros).
Analysis of spending in the last decade
In the third quarter of 2016, a tourist spent 132.4 euros per day in Lanzarote (and the annual average for that year was 126.6 euros).
Ten years later, daily summer spending has increased by 66.3 euros, representing an increase of 50.1% (and almost 57% if compared to the annual closing of 2016).
At the regional level, the Canary Islands as a whole have gone from a daily spending of 132 euros in the summer of 2016 to the current 187.5 euros, which represents an increase of 42% (+55.5 euros).
In the same period, Fuerteventura has registered an increase of +39.8% (from 131.3 euros to 183.6 euros).
In Gran Canaria, in the last ten years, spending has increased by +39.9% (from 130.6 euros to 182.7 euros) while Tenerife, which in the summer of 2016 led regional spending with 134.1 euros daily, has grown by +39.6% to the current 187.2 euros, yielding the first place to Lanzarote's surge.
If the cumulative for the first three quarters of 2026 is observed, Lanzarote also maintains the first position in the archipelago with an average of 193.1 euros per day, compared to 189.8 euros for Tenerife, 185 euros for the Canary Islands average, 178.5 euros for Gran Canaria, 174.6 euros for Fuerteventura, and 166.7 euros for La Palma.
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