Tourists in Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura ranks fourth by arrivals. In August 2026, Fuerteventura received 250,530 tourists, 4.8% above the same month of 2025. That figure represents 16.0% of the 1,566,954 arrivals recorded across the Canary Islands that month.

The best month in the available series is March 2025, with 253,000 arrivals. So far in 2026 (January–August), Fuerteventura totals 1,728,436 tourists. In 2025, Fuerteventura received 2,733,000 tourists over the full year.

ISTAC's island-level breakdown for Fuerteventura is available from May 2024. The series is updated every month with each FRONTUR release; the latest data point is August 2026.

Across the available ISTAC series, winter months (November–March) average 231,200 tourists per month in Fuerteventura, against 218,858 in the summer months (June–September): 5.6% above. The strongest month in the series is March 2025 (253,000 arrivals) and the weakest is May 2024 (181,000).

If you are looking for fewer crowds, the quieter months are those below that average; if you want the season with the widest choice and air connectivity, winter concentrates peak demand.

Source: Aena, 2025 year-end. Counts total passengers (arrivals and departures, domestic and international) — a different metric from ISTAC's tourist arrivals.

Corralejo in the north and the Jandía peninsula (Morro Jable, Costa Calma) in the south hold most accommodation, with the added draw of white-sand beaches and wind conditions for surfing and kitesurfing.

Fuerteventura is especially dependent on the German market, alongside the British one. That concentration makes it more sensitive to changes in air connectivity with Germany than to other markets.

Note: annual per-island totals combine exact ISTAC figures with rounded estimates for the months where the source publishes only each island's percentage share.