Calma Society · Tenerife

Living

Lifestyle, property and interiors. North or south, and an island that never closes for winter.

Mount Teide covered in snow above a lava field dusted with snow, under a deep blue sky.

Tenerife in winter: the island that never closes

Across much of Europe, winter is the low season. In Tenerife it is the high season: a coast at around twenty degrees, a sea not far off that and, sometimes, snow on Teide. What the island is like from December to March, and how to avoid its peaks.

Mount Teide sharp against a blue sky while a sea of clouds blankets the northern slope.

North or south: the two Tenerifes, and which to choose for a longer stay

The north, green, trade-wind cooled and full of historic towns; the south, dry, sunny and home to much of the foreign buying. Tenerife doesn't have one climate: it has two sides. What life each offers, all year round.