Can you tan through clouds in Fuerteventura?

Avoid sunbathing when the sun is highest in the sky (around midday) and take extra precautions the first time you are out in the open air. 3. Clouds reduce the amount of rays but be careful because many rays get through the clouds. So use sunscreen even if it's cloudy.



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The statistics show that there is an average of 320 sunny days each year on Fuerteventura, and in the summer there can be 11 hours of sunshine a day.

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Corralejo is often cloudy in the morning, but this tends to 'burn-off' as the day progresses. The driest, sunniest and warmest part of the island is Morro Jable – where it is often 2 or 3 degrees warmer than in the North.

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Desert Dust consists of particles smaller than 62 µm originating in deserts. Often, the dust particles are small, leading to high concentrations of PM10 and PM2. 5 and all related health impacts.

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Playa de la Goleta – Corralejo The water is calm and transparent, perfect to enjoy a swim on a sunny day.

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Fuerteventura tends to avoid the extremes of temperature. So while it can be a refuge from the scorching Spanish mainland in summer, Fuerteventura is often the place to sunbathe through winter. There are some 3000 sunshine hours a year, averaging 9 a day in mid-summer and 6 in mid-winter.

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South Gran Canaria gets over 320 days of sunshine per year, but sometimes it is cloudy. Occasionally it even rains. Cloudy days happen when there is high cloud over the Atlantic that covers the whole island and is too high up to burn off. Or when the wind changes and tropical clouds come up from the south.

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In winter and spring, the water in Fuerteventura is between 18 and 22 degrees warm. There are days with little wind and plenty of sun, where you can surf in January or February only in swimming trunks. For the rest of the day we recommend a 2 to 3 mm thick wetsuit with long arms and long legs.

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Road traffic is the main anthropogenic source of pollution. In S/C de Tenerife, with a population of nearly 219,000 inhabitants, such dispersive conditions are diminished when the winds come from the east/southeast because the Anaga Massif circles the city to the north/northwest.

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