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What an exciting prospect! You are on holiday in the Canary Islands and you accept the tempting invitation of the waves to get among them and show your talent on a surf board. The great climate and the pleasant sun of the Canaries mean you can enjoy this sport in any month of the year. Here, in the Canaries, you can learn to surf, improve your technique, and enjoy this activity and the lifestyle that characterizes it. The Canary Islands, passionate about waves!

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The numerous, varied beaches in the Canaries make it easy for you to enjoy all kinds of experiences on your surfboard, experiences that you can have at any time of the year in this archipelago, as the great weather conditions, with an average temperature of 22ºC (71.6ºF), will accompany you on this trip. Passion, adrenaline and satisfaction are your reply to the call of the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, which come to the coast to find you on your surfboard, and challenge you to ride them to the shore and the peace of the Canarian beaches.

Surfing is a very popular sport in the Canaries, in fact it is a life style that forms part of the culture of the islands; it shares with them their love and respect for the sea and nature, and shares with you the search for new challenges and emotions. As soon as you get to a beach in the Canaries with your surfboard under your arm, you will feel surrounded by a surfing community who will be talking to you about “rights”, “lefts”, “breathers”, “peaks” and “tubes”, and describing the most incredible places to go surfing in the Canaries.

This passion for the sport makes the Canaries the perfect place for people of all ages to surf, as well as being the best place to learn surfing, boogie-boarding or body-boarding, thanks to the excellent schools available. It is also possible to improve your technique on the board in the various surf camps and surf trips that are held in the islands all year round. The Canarian archipelago is the only place in Europe that offers all the necessary conditions for one of the most important sporting events in the world: the Town-in Surf. This event consists of surfing in extreme conditions with immense waves, which are normally more typical of those off the coasts of the Pacific.

The Canary Islands attracts those people who, like you, live for the spirit of the ocean, and for this reason, you will find surfers, both professionals and amateurs, meeting up all year round on the beaches of the Canaries, honing their skills or taking part in one of the many surfing championships that are held here.

Your destination for the best surfing is the Canary Islands, the place where the most exciting and fastest walls of water are waiting for you… The place where you will find the perfect wave.