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Top 5 Most visited Spanish Islands

Mallorca: 13,4 Million visitors each year

Tenerife: 6,3 M

Gran Canaria: 4 M

Ibiza: 3,5 M

Lanzarote: 2,8 M

Top 6 To 15 Most visited Spanish Islands

Fuerteventura: 2,2 Million visitors each year

Menorca: 1,7 M

Formentera: 1.2 M

La Graciosa (Canaries): 558,000 Thousand visitors each year

Cíes (Galicia): 338,000 Thousand

A Illa de Arousa (Galicia): 240,000

Tabarca: 230,000

La Palma: 155,000

Ons (Galicia): 142,000

Sálvora (Galicia): 16,000

Spain’s Most Visited Islands as a Ratio of Population

Some islands receive a massive amount of visits in relation to the local population. These are Spain’s 15 most visited islands in relation to total number of residents.

Tabarca (off the coast of Santa Pola): 3,833 visits/resident. 230,000 yearly visitors for a population of 60 people.

Cíes (Galicia): 1410 visits/resident. 338,750 yearly visitors for 240 population (service based as there are no permanent residents).

La Graciosa (Lanzarote, Canary Islands): 745 visits/resident. 558,634 yearly visitors for a population of 750 people.

Ons (Galicia): 475 visits/resident. 142,442 yearly visitors for 300 population (80 seasonal residents + 200 park staff).

Formentera: 100 visits/resident. 1,200,000 yearly visitors for 12,000 population.

Sálvora (Galicia): 81 visits/resident. 16,271 yearly visitors for 200 population (park staff only).

A Illa de Arousa (Galicia): 50 visits/resident. 240,477 yearly visitors for 4,850 population.

Ibiza: 22 visits/resident. 3,500,000 yearly visitors for 161,000 population.

Lanzarote: 17 visits/resident. 2,789,181 yearly visitors for 163,000 population.

Fuerteventura: 17 visits/resident. 2,186,254 yearly visitors for 130,000 population.

Menorca: 16 visits/resident. 1,678,432 yearly visitors for 103,000 population.

Mallorca: 14 visits/resident. 13,389,923 yearly visitors for 970,000 population.

Tenerife: 6 visits/resident. 6,277,692 yearly visitors for 970,000 population.

Gran Canaria: 4 visits/resident. 4,040,620 yearly visitors for 987,000 population.

La Palma: 2 visits/resident. 155,114 yearly visitors for 85,000 population.

Spain’s Most Expensive Islands.

These are Spain’s most-expensive islands based on the average daily spend of holiday-makers (food, accommodation, leisure, local transport) excluding flight costs.

Ibiza: €204 per person per day. Ibiza is Spain’s most expensive island overall with the top hotel revenues per room in Spain and the Balearics, and the highest Balearic spend-per-trip.

Formentera is close to Ibiza in cost, with an average daily spend of €202 per visitor. However, because many travellers come only on day trips and do not book accommodation, the overall spend per visitor is lower.

Mallorca: €191 per person per day in peak months.

Menorca at €167 per person per day is still expensive in relation to the Canary Islands, but well below Ibiza, Mallorca and Formentera.

Tenerife at €132/day is the most expensive of the Canary Islands, however, resort pricing in Costa Adeje lifts the averages. Other areas of the island tend to be on par with Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.

Lanzarote at €128/day sometimes overtakes Tenerife with the highest daily spend in the Canaries.

Gran Canaria: €120/day

Fuerteventura: €117/day

La Palma: €107/day

La Graciosa, like most of the islands mentioned below, is a day-trip destination. A typical full day spend is €65 with ferry, lunch and extras.

Tabarca day-trip: Typical full day around €45 (boat + meal + drink).

Cíes day-trip: Typical full day around €38 (ferry + snack/meal).

Spain’s Islands with the Highest Percentage of foreign visitors.

Fuerteventura receives about 92% foreign visits and 8% Spanish.

Lanzarote receives 91% foreign visits and 9% Spanish

Gran Canaria receives 89% and 11%

Tenerife receives 87% and 13%

Mallorca receives 82% and 18%

Formentera receives 76% and 24%

Ibiza receives 75% foreign and 25% Spanish

Menorca receives 72% foreign and 28% Spanish (Menorca’s Spanish visitor share is consistently higher than both Mallorca and Ibiza).

In contrast:

Cíes (Galicia) receives only 15% foreign visits and 85% Spanish. These are mostly Spanish day-trips via Vigo and Cangas.

Tabarca receives 12% foreign visits and 88% Spanish. Tabarca is a predominantly day-trip island served mainly from Santa Pola and Alicante city.

Spain’s Most Seasonal Islands

Some islands in Spain are almost exclusively visited during Summer.
Below is the seasonality ranking (June, July and August share of yearly visitors), from highest (mostly summer visits) to lowest (most year-round visits).

Cíes (Galicia): 90–95% in late spring and summer with a peak in June to August.

Ons (Galicia): 90–95%: same seasonal permit window and ferry dynamics as Cíes.

Sálvora (Galicia): 85–95% in the summer season. These are mainly guided excursions.

Tabarca (Alicante): Around 85–95% of visits are in summer with the peak in July and August.

A Illa de Arousa (Galicia): 70–85% in summer with a July and August spike around beach traffic and local events.

Formentera: 65–75% in summer.

Ibiza: 60–70% with the classic high-summer peak (June, July, and August are the core months).

Menorca: 55–65% pronounced summer peak, with slightly more visitors in the shoulder months than Ibiza and Formentera.

Mallorca: 45–55% in Summer. Mallorca has a longer season which dilutes the June–August share vs Ibiza which is mostly summer.

La Palma: With 22–30% in summer, La Palma is more even across the year than all of the Balearic islands.

Fuerteventura: 22–28% in summer.

Lanzarote: 22–27%. Lanzarote has a steady demand year-round.

Gran Canaria: With 20–27% of visits in summer, Gran Canaria has one of the flattest yearly visitor profiles of Spain’s islands.

Tenerife: 20–25%, and the least seasonal of all Spain’s islands. It’s a very popular winter destination, plus it attracts many tourists during the shoulder months of Autumn and Spring.