Canary Islands · Spain
Where to stay in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a city in Canary Islands, Spain, home to about 382,000 people. This guide covers 3 hotels in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 3
- Best months
- all year
- Nearest airport
- LPA22 km · Gran Canaria Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Atlantic/Canary
- Language
- Basque, Catalan, Galician
About
About Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands in Spain. With a population of 383,516 as of 2024, it is the ninth-largest city in Spain.
There is no actual city centre. The nucleus is the picturesque old town Vegueta. There are five administrative districts, each of which is further subdivided into barrios, identified by Roman numbers.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
See
- Castillo de la Luz
- Alfredo Kraus Auditorium
- Catedral de Santa Ana
- Pueblo Canario
- Ermita de San Antonio Abad
- Columbus house museum
- Museo Canario
- Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
- Casa-Museo Pérez Galdós
- Elder Museum of Science and Technology
- Poema del Mar
- Museo Néstor
Do
As a beach town, Las Palmas is especially popular for oceanside activities. Catch a wave, grab your snorkel, or just soak up some sun (after applying sunscreen, of course!) Or if you feel like exploring terra firma, do as the locals do and make use of the public tourism bus, known affectionately as the guiriguagua.
- Playa de Las Canteras
- Playa de Las Alcaravaneras
- Playa del Confital
- Playa de la Laja
- Las Palmeras
- Real Club de Golf de Las Palmas
- Festival Internacional de Música de Canarias
- Gran Canaria Maraton
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Easter
- Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
- Lluvia de pétalos
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
3 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Occidental Las Canteras hotel |
| Occidental Las Palmas hotel |
| Santa Catalina, a Royal Hideaway Hotel hotel |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Which part of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to stay in
There is no actual city centre. The nucleus is the picturesque old town Vegueta. There are five administrative districts, each of which is further subdivided into barrios, identified by Roman numbers.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
More hotels in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
22 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| AC Hotel Gran Canaria | 1.6 km | |
| AC Hotel Iberia Las Palmas by Marriott | 2.2 km | |
| ART Las Palmas Viviendas Vacacionales | 1.1 km | |
| Bed&Chic Las Palmas | 1.5 km | |
| Cactus Host | 1.5 km | |
| Design Plus Bex Hotel | 1.3 km | |
| Exe Las Palmas | 1.8 km | |
| Hostal 7 Soles | 2.5 km | |
| Hostal Kasa | 1.5 km | |
| Hotel Acuario | 1.5 km | |
| Hotel Apartamentos Bajamar | 1.1 km | |
| Hotel Concorde | 1.6 km | |
| Hotel Cristina by Tigotan Las Palmas | 1.9 km | |
| Hotel Reina Isabel | 1.7 km | |
| Hotel THe Fataga Centro de Negocios | 0.8 km | |
| Maresia Canteras Urban | 1.1 km | |
| NH Imperial Playa | 2.3 km | |
| OYO Miami Santa Catalina OYO Rooms | 1.5 km | |
| Sholeo Lodges La Cícer Flats | 1.2 km | |
| Silken Saaj Las Palmas | 0.5 km | |
| Suites 1478 | 3.4 km | |
| Wavia Hotel - Adults Only | 2.4 km |
All 25 hotels in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are all year. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 27 °C; January is the wettest, with about 33 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Gran Canaria Airport (LPA), about 22 km from the city centre in a straight line; Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (TFN, 98 km) and Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS, 112 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Gran Canaria International Airport LPA is an airport near the city of Telde, about 70 km south of Las Palmas. There are flights from many airports in Northern, Western and Central Europe, mainland Spain, Italy, other Canary islands and a couple from Africa. Getting o Las Palmad: take the Global interisland blue buses. Bus routes 1, 5, 11, 60 & 91 all travel from the airport to the city of Las Palmas. The #60 & #91 Global buses are the airport—city express lines.
Getting around
Google Maps and Moovit cover the city and the island for finding the right bus line to your destination. Las Palmas has the best quality bus system in the archipelago and one of the best in Spain. The service is provided by Guaguas Municipales, +34 928 446 500, and that's why the bright yellow buses are known as guaguas pronounced wah-wahs as the g is silent in Spanish. A simple fare, paid directly to the city bus driver, is €1.10 per person per any city bus trip in x1 direction only (can not stay on the city Guagua or islands Global buses for a circular journey).
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LPA · Gran Canaria Airport
TFN · Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport
TFS · Tenerife Sur Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Eat
Many restaurants have menus in an abundance of languages, and waiters often will also often be able to converse in your own language. There are many inexpensive restaurants in the San Telmo neighborhood.
Drink
Local beverages include the Arehucas rum, that is drunk straight or with cola, and the Tropical beer.
Stay safe
If you have a veranda/patio on ground level - don't leave doors nor windows open unattended for any period of time. Stay away from anyone that offers you anything for free, like lottery tickets or a free meal. These are often salespeople who want you to buy potentially worthless "holiday club" memberships or dodgy time-shares. They may seem pleasant at first, but may turn hostile and start threatening you. During nighttime, particularly in the small hours, groups of drunk revellers outside nightclubs can occasionally turn aggressive. If you're out late, taking a taxi is the safer option.
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Questions
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are all year. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 27 °C; January is the wettest, with about 33 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Gran Canaria Airport (LPA), about 22 km from the city centre in a straight line; Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (TFN, 98 km) and Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS, 112 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.