Between January and July, Lanzarote received 2,034,207 tourists, compared to the 2,019,794 counted during the same period in 2025. This represents an increase of 0.7%, while it decreases in the rest of the Canary Islands. In Fuerteventura it falls by 3.6%, in Tenerife by 2.1% and Gran Canaria by 0.5%.
Lanzarote's growth is due to the months of January (+12.5%) and July (+6.4%), as in February (-3.7%), March (-0.1%), April (-7.9%), May (-1.1%), and June (-0.7%) there were drops in the number of tourists compared to the previous year.
For the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Oswaldo Betancort, these results reflect "a scenario of balance that we consider positive for Lanzarote".
“We do not want to base our tourism model on permanently increasing the number of visitors, but we also cannot consider it positive to lose tourists in a sustained manner, because behind tourism is employment, air connectivity, and a fundamental part of our economy. Growing by 0.7% means practically remaining stable and doing so, moreover, in a context in which the Canary Islands are reducing their arrivals and in an especially complex international scenario,” points out Betancort.
The president highlights that the objective is to "maintain that stability and achieve that tourism activity generates more and more value for Lanzarote and for those who live on the Island”. Precisely, the economic indicators show an evolution considerably superior to that registered by the number of visitors.
During the second quarter of 2026, the daily tourist spending in Lanzarote reached 181.90 euros per person, compared to 154.56 euros in the same quarter of 2025, which represents an interannual increase of 17.7%.
Income from accommodation establishments also grows. Between January and July, Lanzarote's hotel and non-hotel establishments generated approximately 607.1 million euros, compared to 569 million euros in the same period of 2025. The difference represents a growth of 6.71% and is the best record achieved in the first seven months of the year.
Added to this is the evolution of the average daily rate, which between January and July 2026 stood at 130.60 euros, compared to 122.47 euros registered in 2025, which represents an increase of 6.64%.
For his part, the CEO of SPEL-Turismo Lanzarote, Héctor Fernández, considers that the joint reading of these indicators "is much more important than analyzing the number of tourists in isolation".
“We are practically stabilized in volume, with a growth of only seven tenths, while daily spending, accommodation revenue, and average rate are growing much more significantly. That is an evolution consistent with the objective of generating more tourism value without necessarily linking the sector's economic growth to a constant increase in arrivals,” explains Fernández.
The number of tourists increased in July in Lanzarote by 6.4% compared to the fall of the
The data released this week already include the month of July and provide a first reference on tourist behavior during the summer, although the complete balance of the summer period will have to be made when the figures for August are also available.
In July, Lanzarote received 316,836 tourists, 6.4% more than in July 2025. The growth was especially driven by the peninsular market, which increased by 38.8%, while international tourism grew by 2.2%.
However, SPEL-Turismo Lanzarote considers that the accumulated picture from January to July offers a more representative perspective of the destination's evolution than the isolated behavior of a single month.
“The data allow us to speak of containment, stability, and generation of greater value. That balance is important both for the sustainability of the destination and to ensure that tourism continues to be a solid source of economic activity and employment for Lanzarote, especially in an international scenario subject to significant economic, geopolitical, and climatic uncertainties,” concludes Betancort.
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