Playa de las Cucharas in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote

The beach at Playa Las Cucharas, Costa Teguise

The coastal path along the Costa Teguise waterfront

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Flat water inside the breakwater, reef waves outside it, and the summer trade wind blowing across both. Las Cucharas is the home of windsurfing on Lanzarote, and a busy resort beach the whole year round.

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Live conditions

Why riders love it

What brings people here, from the people who manage it and the people who ride it.

The best time is the summer trade wind season, roughly June to August, with July the peak.
Inside the bay at Las Cucharas the water is flat. Outside, waves break over a reef about 300 m offshore and can reach mast height in a north swell.
At low tide the pier partly blocks the north-east wind, so getting in and out is easier at high tide.

Sources: La Voz de Lanzarote; Kite and Windsurfing Guide; Surf Magazin

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Access and rules

Local governments and environmental agencies set the terms. The chapter works with them, not around them.

Las Cucharas is a busy tourist beach all year, with windsurf schools and safety boats on site.
For experienced kiters, local guides point to Los Charcos, which is very windy and rough and gets crowded on good days.
Neither the municipality nor the island publishes kite or windsurf rules for these beaches.

Sources: La Voz de Lanzarote; Kite and Windsurfing Guide; Turismo Teguise; no published rules found as of 2026

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Ecology and habitat

Protected lagoons, wetlands and the species that depend on them. Stewardship days keep launches clean inside the protected zones.

Rocks lie close to the outside reef at Las Cucharas even at high tide, so riders note them from shore at low tide first.
The entrance to Los Charcos is sandy, but the water over it covers rocky slabs that can damage gear.

Sources: Surf Magazin

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Good to know

Location, facilities and history.

Costa Teguise is a resort on the east coast of Lanzarote, in the municipality of Teguise, just north of the island's capital, Arrecife.
Playa de las Cucharas is the town's main beach. Los Charcos, a small reef-closed lagoon, is along the coast.
Las Cucharas hosts a leg of the PWA windsurf world tour.
Los Charcos has free campervan parking, a campsite and freshwater showers.

Sources: Turismo Teguise; Surf Magazin

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Costa Teguise

The trade wind season peaks June–August with July the windiest month.

Source: La Voz de Lanzarote

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Costa Teguise

A reef about 300 m offshore gives mast-high waves in a north swell.

Source: Kite and Windsurfing Guide

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Las Cucharas hosts a leg of the PWA world tour

Source: Turismo Teguise

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Why Costa Teguise needs a chapter

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The north-east trade wind blows across Lanzarote most summers, and at Costa Teguise it meets a bay with flat water behind a breakwater and a reef break further out. Las Cucharas has become the island's main windsurfing beach, with schools and a regular PWA world tour stop.

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It is also a resort beach, busy with tourists all year. Kiters ride the smaller Los Charcos lagoon along the coast, which is rough and crowded on good days. None of this is written down: there are no published rules for who rides where.

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A chapter gives windsurfers and kiters one voice with the Teguise municipality before conflicts force a decision, and keeps riders trained so the beaches stay shared.

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The riders, schools and crew of Costa Teguise

Riders from Costa Teguise, Teguise, Arrecife, Tahiche, Playa Honda, San Bartolomé, Puerto del Carmen, Tías, Guatiza, Famara, Caleta de Famara, Tinajo, Lanzarote and the schools that teach them.

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WWSThe chapterHolds the line on access: one standing voice with whoever manages the launch.WWSThe chapterRuns stewardship days, so the people who manage the beach see riders as an asset.WWSThe chapterRuns sponsored certification weekends, so riders are trained and self-policing.WWSThe chapterHolds the line on access: one standing voice with whoever manages the launch.WWSThe chapterRuns stewardship days, so the people who manage the beach see riders as an asset.WWSThe chapterRuns sponsored certification weekends, so riders are trained and self-policing.

Jacob Gonzalez PerezLevel 3J, Arrecife

Ana Villagrasa SalagreLevel 2I, TeguiseCCarlos Shanka Boissy DíazLevel 3K, ArrecifeAAridani Ione Leon DiazLevel 2I, ArrecifeJJose TorresLevel 2I, ARRECIFEMMiguelLevel 2I, FamaraYYaiza Villagrasa SalagreLevel 2I, Teguise

Jacob Gonzalez PerezLevel 3J, Arrecife

iSportsKite, WingiWind spotArrecifeiKnow thisPlaya de las Cucharas and Los Charcos, in Costa Teguise on the east coast of Lanzarote.iKnow thisNorth-east trade winds, best from June to August, with July the peak.iKnow thisRiders share a busy resort beach; no written kite or windsurf rules are published.iSportsKite, WingiWind spotArrecifeiKnow thisPlaya de las Cucharas and Los Charcos, in Costa Teguise on the east coast of Lanzarote.iKnow thisNorth-east trade winds, best from June to August, with July the peak.iKnow thisRiders share a busy resort beach; no written kite or windsurf rules are published.

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