Aruba vs Canary Islands

Turquoise pool with loungers and fire pits on sand deck, surrounded by curved resort building with white cabanas and green-roofed central structure.

Illuminated pools with striped umbrellas and loungers at Bahia Principe Fantasia Tenerife, multi-story resort buildings at dusk.

Canary Islands15 resorts · ★ 4.6 average

Aruba and Canary Islands, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Canary Islands
Aruba	Measure	Canary Islands
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
11	Resorts in our catalog	15 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$83–$260/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	3 of 15
Outside the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	November–February, lightly, and mostly on the north coasts
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	Year-round; December–March is when the islands earn their keep, and summer is the value season

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Aruba

Canary Islands

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Canary Islands
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Canary Islands · high °F	70	71	73	74	76	79	83	84	82	79	75	71
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Canary Islands · rain (in)	1.2	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.6	1.1	1.3

Approximate climate normals for Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Tenerife South: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.