What to Do in Costa Teguise with Kids on a Windy Day

Costa Teguise gets about 23 rainy days a year, mostly squeezed into November to February, and even those tend to be a few short showers rather than a full wet day. The bigger weather story here is wind. The alisios, the northeast trade winds that gave our villa its name, blow hard from May through September. Most days that means good kitesurfing and good sleeping. A few days a season they make the open beaches feel like a sandblaster.

We live in Costa Teguise and host Casa Los Alisios. This is the list we send to families who message asking what to do when they wake up to grey skies or an alisio that is a bit much. Everything here is a 10 to 15 minute walk or drive from our front door, and the indoor options work even on the rare proper rainy day.

How often is the weather actually bad in Costa Teguise?

The honest answer: not very often. The island averages around 8.3 hours of sunshine a day across the year. Total annual rainfall is about 122 mm spread across roughly 23 days. December is the wettest month at around 4 rainy days, and from May through September it barely rains at all.

What does happen is wind. The alisios pick up from late spring and peak in July at an average of about 18 mph (29 km/h), with stronger gusts on the exposed north and east coasts. Costa Teguise sits on the eastern coast and faces the wind directly, which is exactly why it became a windsurfing town in the first place. On a strong alisio day, Las Cucharas turns into a sail park and the rest of us look for somewhere out of the wind.

The Lanzarote Aquarium

The Lanzarote Aquarium at Centro Comercial El Trébol is the obvious indoor stop in Costa Teguise. It has 33 tanks, more than a million litres of water, a shark tunnel running through a 500,000 litre main tank, and three touch tanks where small kids can put a hand in and feel a sea cucumber or a starfish. Plan on about an hour with toddlers, longer if your kids are the type to camp at the shark tunnel.

Open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00. Adult tickets are €16, children aged 4 to 12 are €11, under 4s go free, and seniors pay €13. From Casa Los Alisios it is a 3 minute drive or a 15 minute walk along Avenida de las Acacias. We cover this stop in more depth in our guide to things to do in Costa Teguise with kids.

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Bowling and an indoor pool at Centro de Ocio Santa Rosa

Centro de Ocio Santa Rosa on Avenida del Mar is a 1,500 m² leisure centre with four Brunswick bowling lanes, a heated indoor pool, a ball pool, billiards, padel courts and a gym. A bowling game costs €1.50 per person, and there is a small play area for younger kids. It opens Monday to Friday from 15:00 to 23:00 and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 23:00, so on a grey morning the indoor pool is the easier option, then bowling in the afternoon.

It is a 5 minute drive from the villa, or about 25 minutes on foot through Costa Teguise.

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An evening at Pueblo Marinero

Pueblo Marinero is the white-walled plaza at the south end of Costa Teguise, designed by César Manrique in the 1970s as a tribute to traditional Canarian architecture. The buildings around the square shelter it from the alisios, which makes it one of the few outdoor spots in town that still works as a dinner plan when the wind is up. The plaza is car-free and paved, so kids can run around between courses while parents take a slower meal.

The craft market sets up on Wednesday evenings from 18:00 to 22:00 with island artisans selling jewellery, ceramics and timple-themed pieces. The Friday market runs from 17:00 to 22:00 and leans more toward souvenirs. Live music is common on both nights. From Casa Los Alisios it is a 5 minute drive or a 30 minute walk along the coastal promenade.

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Drive 12 minutes: Jardín de Cactus in Guatiza

The Jardín de Cactus is the last project Manrique designed before his death in 1992. It is built into a converted picón quarry in Guatiza, about 13 km north of Costa Teguise, and holds around 4,500 cacti from 500 species across five continents. The terraced design sinks the garden below ground level, which means the lava-stone walls give it shelter from the trade winds. The visitor centre, the windmill at the top and the café are all under cover, so kids can move between sun, shade and indoor spaces depending on the gusts.

Open every day from 10:00 to 17:45. Tickets are €8 for adults and €4 for children aged 7 to 12. From the villa it is about a 12 minute drive on the LZ-1 north toward Guatiza.

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Drive 10 minutes: Teguise old town and the Casa-Museo del Timple

The old capital of Lanzarote sits inland at the foot of Guanapay volcano, 10 minutes by car from Costa Teguise. Going in the morning on a grey day works well: the streets are quieter than on Sunday market day, the cafés around Plaza de la Constitución are open for breakfast, and the small museums make sense as half-hour stops between coffees.

The Casa-Museo del Timple inside the Spínola Palace covers the timple, the small five-string Canarian instrument that shows up at every island fiesta. It reopened in May 2025 with new thematic rooms, a craft workshop and restored ceilings inside the Spínola Palace, and is open daily from 10:00 to 15:00. General entry is €3, and Lanzarote residents pay €1.80. Admission is free during the month of May. For more on Teguise itself, see our guide to the Sunday market in Teguise.

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Drive 25 minutes: lava tubes at Jameos del Agua and Cueva de los Verdes

The two big lava tube sites on the island sit side by side at the foot of the Monte Corona volcano, 25 minutes north of Costa Teguise. Both are entirely underground, the temperature inside stays around 19°C all day, and the wind does not reach down there, which makes them the obvious bad-weather pivot when the alisios pick up.

Jameos del Agua is the section Manrique converted in the 1960s into a restaurant, an underground saltwater lagoon home to tiny blind albino crabs (jameítos) found nowhere else on Earth, and an auditorium carved out of the lava that hosts concerts. Open every day from 10:00 to 18:00. Adult tickets are €17, children aged 7 to 12 are €8.50.

Cueva de los Verdes is the natural lava tube next door, walked as a 50-minute guided tour with one moment late in the route that we will not spoil. Open daily from 09:30 to 16:15, and tickets must be booked online in advance. Same prices as Jameos: €17 adult, €8.50 child.

If your kids handle one but not both, do Jameos first for the lagoon and the photos, then drive a kilometre to the Cueva entrance and decide on the spot. The Fundación César Manrique in Tahíche is the third Manrique stop in the area and only 10 minutes from the villa, with his old house built into five lava bubbles, open daily from 10:00 to 17:30 at €10 adult and €3 child.

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A walk to Playa El Ancla when the rest of the coast is windy

Most of the Costa Teguise beaches face northeast and take the alisios head-on. Playa El Ancla is the exception. It tucks into a small bay that faces southeast, with a low headland on the northern side that takes most of the wind. We walk down on alisio days and find the water glass-flat while Las Cucharas, a kilometre to the south, is full of windsurfers.

From the villa it is a 10 minute walk: cross Avenida de las Palmeras, take the dirt path through the residential area, then cross Avenida del Mar. There are rock pools at the southern end where small kids can poke around for crabs and small fish at low tide. Bring water shoes, the entry is rocky. The full beach lineup is in our guide to the best beaches in Costa Teguise.

English-language films at Multicines Atlántida

Multicines Atlántida runs two cinemas on the island, one in central Arrecife and one at Centro Comercial Deiland in Playa Honda, both about 12 minutes from Costa Teguise. Most films play dubbed in Spanish, but the chain regularly schedules VOSE sessions, which means original version with Spanish subtitles. For English releases that means English audio with Spanish text on the screen, which is fine for most school-age kids and great for parents looking to switch off for two hours. Check the cartelera and filter by VOSE before booking.

Stay in: the 86-inch TV, the kitchen and the wind-protected terrace

Half the time the right answer is to stay home. The living room TV is 86 inches with the usual streaming apps loaded, which makes a film morning a real plan rather than a fallback. The kitchen is set up for a proper cook with kids: full-size oven, induction hob, Nespresso for the parents, and Spar is a 3 minute walk if you forgot the eggs. Lidl on Calle Las Piteras opened in August 2025 and is 5 minutes the other direction with the bigger weekly shop. Our Costa Teguise supermarket guide has the full list.

The terrace is the surprise on grey days. We added glass wind barriers along the top of the lava-stone wall, which keeps the seating area calm even when the alisios are pushing 30 km/h overhead. On a cloudy afternoon you can read on the daybed in a fleece without getting battered, which is not always true on Costa Teguise terraces.

If the bad weather is also a working day, the home office setup at the villa covers a sit-stand desk, an ergonomic chair and the 1 Gb fibre that keeps a video call stable while the rain runs down the window.