Probably the best climate in the world...
Tenerife has a climate that can't be matched anywhere in the world. Tenerife has the lowest temperature difference between summer and winter of anywhere in the world, with averages of around 24C in winter and 32C in summer.
Tenerife owes its good fortune to its convenient location just north of the Tropic of Cancer - making t
he climate sub-tropical - with the steep-sided mountains rising to its crowning glory, Mount Teide.
Teide is the highest mountain in Spain and it effectively divides the island into two climate zones
Oasis Mango lies on the south east coast at only 100 metres above sea level, and has a dry desert-like terraine and is hot and dry, with littlle more than low scrub as vegetation. As one of our guest´s said ``a true oasis of relaxation and tranquility, amidst the dry barren landscape.
Tenerife has no rainy hurricane season as such, unlike Florida or the Caribean,though what rainfall there is largely occurs between November and February. Rarely does it rain for more than an hour or two and then the sun appears again. This makes Tenerife very popular with most Europeans as it is only 4 hours flying time and has guaranteed sun during the winter months.
North of Santa Cruz, once reaching Tacoronte the terrain is altogether softer and greener.
The unique quality of the climate of the Canarian archipelago is determined by the high-pressure anti-cyclone systems that develop around the Azores to the north west.
These weather systems trigger the trade winds that flow through the Canaries, bringing moist air with them and generating the meteorological phenomenon known as 'horizontal rain' - not rain at all in the true sense but mist that provides a constant source of moisture for the thickly-wooded forests that dominate Tenerife at altitudes between 500 and 1,200 metres.
Air conditioning is rarely needed on Tenerife because nature has its own cooling system, the ocean currents that draw cool waters from the Southern Ocean, which ensure that daytime temperatures remain comfortable despite the proximity of the Western Sahara desert a few hundred miles to the east.
Snow is possible on Mount Teide, at 12,195 ft. at any time between November and March. It's one of the wonders of the island that sun seekers can be sunbathing on the beach enjoying temperatures in the mid-20s while glancing up at Teide's peak hidden under a blanket covering of snow. The locals take advantage of the snowfall, as it never lasts for more than 3 or 4 days to take their children to play.
Anyone arriving at Reina Sofia airport in the south of the island, travelling up the motorway to the capital of Santa Cruz and on up to Puerto de la Cruz and the Orotava Valley will appreciate the diversity Tenerife offers.
When you reach Tacoronte the landscape changes dramatically. Gone is the hot and dry, desert-like terrain, replaced by an altogether greener and gentler atmosphere as the motorway speeds traffic onwards and upwards towards Puerto de La Cruz, where green fields predominate.
Further on is the Orotava Valley, the market garden of Tenerife, where banana plantations, vineyards and a host of other crops flourish. The town of La Orotava is so often cloaked by cloud that the locals refer to is 'la panza del burro' - the belly of the donkey.
Further on still, in the north west corner of the island around the little town of Icod de los Vinos, the terrain changes yet again,
here gorse and heather prevail and can be seen growing alongside the native Canarian pine and palm treesTeide exerts its considerable influence on this north west corner, looming large on the skyline. It was here that the first Spanish invaders settled, deciding that growing conditions would be perfect for their sugar cane and vines.
And so it proved until Teide took a hand, the lava flow from a volcanic eruption in 1706 all but destroying the port of Garachico and the changing the course of the development of the island.
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