The climate on Tenerife is most pleasant about 19 degrees celcius in December. The temperature of the water can reach 20 degrees celcius. Most of the time the sun is shinning all day, making it feel like a good danish summer day. The rain that may fall is very important to the flora. On the northern part of the island you can experience vigorous vegetation, while the vegetation of the southern side is marked by drought some places even desert-like. Here the amount of rain is considerably smaller, as this part of Tenerife is sheltered from the rain coming from the trade winds from the north-east.

The Harmate, a sandy desert wind from Sahara, may blow for days and dry out the area. Some days the air is so packed with desert sand that it seems like a mist covers the island, but fortunately that is very rare .

The hours with sun varies on the southern part from ten hours daily in June to six/seven hours in november-march, while there are fewer on the northern part more like five/six hours daily.