Canary Islands has registered a migratory rebound of arrivals throughout the month of October. A total of 6,194 foreign individuals arrived on the islands through irregular channels during the tenth month of the year. This is according to the data offered by the Ministry of the Interior.
Although this figure is the highest in the last three years, it does not reach the number of arrivals registered in October 2023, when 15,729 people were rescued or arrived by their own means in a single month.
Despite this rebound registered in the month of October, so far this year arrivals remain below those registered in the same period of 2025. Specifically, between January and October 31, arrivals have decreased by 5.5% compared to the previous year.
In contrast, the number of boats has fallen by 30.7%, which means that boats are arriving increasingly overcrowded, generating greater risk among people.
An increase marked by calm seas
Experts on the Canary route have previously warned that between September and October there is a period of calm seas that facilitates the arrival of precarious boats to the archipelago because there is less swell.
The president of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid in the Canary Islands, Juan Carlos Lorenzo, stated in an interview with RTVE that this increase in arrivals is part of the "seasonality of the Canary route." In this regard, he explained that in the last months of the year, navigability conditions serve as an incentive for those fleeing poverty, persecution, or lack of life prospects.
Senegalese, Gambian, and Moroccan are, according to data from August 31, the most frequent nationalities on the migratory route to the archipelago, with data from Frontex. Followed by Malians and Guineans.
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