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Area guides, beach guides and practical tips to help you plan your stay.
The island's busiest resort, with a dune park and the wind to match
An old fishing quarter at one end, a long pale beach at the other
Shallow turquoise water halfway down the Jandía peninsula
A fishing village with surf on one side and sheltered lagoons on the other
The calmest bay on the island, ten minutes from the airport
A protected peninsula of bare mountain ridges and empty beaches
The working capital, with street art on the walls and local prices
An inland surf village within fifteen minutes of three coasts
Corralejo
The island's kite and windsurf beach, three kilometres south of Corralejo
Costa Calma
A tidal lagoon big enough for the PWA World Cup and shallow enough for toddlers
Jandía
A quiet golden-sand beach on the sheltered Jandía coast
Eleven kilometres of empty Atlantic beach below the Jandía ridge — and water you should not swim in
Morro Jable
Morro Jable's town beach: two kilometres of pale sand, calm water, a lighthouse at the end
This 3.5km run of beaches lies within Corralejo's protected dune park
El Cotillo
Fuerteventura's calmest lagoon beach, right at El Cotillo's edge
Majanicho
A unique Fuerteventura beach famed for its 'popcorn' rhodoliths, not sand – but unsuitable for swimming.
Ajuy
Black volcanic sand beneath cliffs revealing the Canaries' oldest rock
La Pared
Fuerteventura's legendary surf beach, but strictly for surfing, not swimming.
Wide golden sand at the northern edge of the Corralejo dune park
A cliff-ringed cove south of El Cotillo, reached only by a stone staircase
Caleta de Fuste
A sheltered horseshoe bay with calm, shallow water and an 18th-century watchtower
Los Molinos
A black-cliff cove and a handful of fishing houses on the west coast
Pájara
A wild west-coast beach with dangerous water and the remains of a 1994 shipwreck
A quiet, crescent-shaped beach on Corralejo's hotel-lined Grandes Playas coast
El Puertito, Jandía
A remote fishing hamlet's rocky beach on Jandía's wild west coast, plus the Natural Park's own visitor centre
La Lajita
The island's biggest wildlife park, with a cactus garden to match.
Betancuria
The island's first capital, hidden inland where the pirates could not reach it.
Cofete, Jandía
A stone lighthouse at the end of the island — and the roughest drive to reach it.
Villaverde
One of the Canaries' oldest lava tubes — and, for now, one you cannot walk into.
Tefía
Seven restored farmhouses and the craftspeople still working in them.
Antigua
A restored windmill, a cheese museum and a cactus garden in one walled courtyard.
César Manrique's window onto half of Fuerteventura.
The island's last working salt pans, still harvested by hand.
La Oliva
The grandest house on the island — for now, admired from the outside.
A sacred mountain you can photograph but are not free to climb.
Cofete
An unfinished house at the end of a dirt track, and the legends that grew around it.
A round gun tower over El Cotillo's old harbour, built to stop the raiders.
The island's cheese, its goats and a windmill you can climb — in one courtyard.
A protected islet 15 minutes off Corralejo, capped at 400 visitors a day.
Corralejo, La Oliva
The island's own desert, with its best beaches along the edge.
Vega de Río Palmas, Betancuria
A dam wall, a palm ravine and the island's patron saint, an hour inland.
Puerto del Rosario
Over a hundred sculptures in the open, and no ticket office anywhere.
Lajares
An easy crater walk on one of Fuerteventura's best-preserved volcanoes
Jandía, Pájara
A demanding climb to the island's highest point, and its best view.
Morro Jable – Cofete, Jandía
A dramatic valley walk from Morro Jable over the mountains to remote Cofete beach.
Vallebrón, La Oliva
A walk through the island's greenest valley, past terraced fields most visitors never see.
A remote fishing hamlet and a wild volcanic coastline, far from Fuerteventura's tourist beaches.
Two of Fuerteventura's most popular bases, at opposite ends of the island — here's how they actually differ.
Two very different sides of Fuerteventura's north coast, just 20 minutes apart.
Two calm, family-friendly resorts — but a very different transfer time and resort style.
Which part of the island to pick, when to go, what to see and what to know before you land